And y'all won't allow socialism. So what's the actual alternative?

Can't have capitalism anymore because the billionaires won't allow it and they have more than enough power and money to do away with it.

And we can't have socialism because well, that's socialism!

So what exactly is the plan?

As far as I can tell your post has nothing to do with what I said outside of the first sentence as the rest is just you putting words in my mouth I never even implied let alone said. Good work.

Given this I'll just address your first sentence

If that were true then democracies that saw their media ownership fall under a single ideology wouldn't fail. Only they do so people in democracies do in fact let this happen.

Right, UK speech offenses are worse than executing journalists critical of you or any one of the far worse actions done by the Saudi's.

I forgot how absurd conversations with you got. Thanks for the reminder.

ABC is heavily owned by conservatives (remember, they only brought Jimmy Kimmel back when they saw what was happening to their streaming subscriptions), PBS is under threat, what the fuck is MS-now?, and the New York Times is part of a heavily shrinking class of newspapers not owned by conservatives.

Trump's trade war that he started so he could offset billionaire tax cuts with tariffs is crashing the economy. Manufacturing is down 20%.

We can't stop the trade war because the only way Trump could ram those billionaire tax cuts through is using the budget process and that required a revenue neutral approach on paper and if you're going to cut 2 trillion dollars in taxes for billionaires you can't really do revenue neutral.

So to get there he made up numbers around the tariffs. If he does away with the tariffs the economy will start to recover but the next budgetary cycle he will lose those tax cuts for billionaires.

As a direct result you need to suck at the fuck down and stop buying so much food. And if you have kids make sure one doll per Christmas.

So that means only looking at three media sources is an accurate view of the American news environment? How do you even come up with this stuff?

For the record, Pew is a fantastic organization. It's just what they're saying there doesn't even remotely contradict what I was saying before.

Right, so that means Saudi Arabia owning part of an American news organization is just as good as the UK. Then you go on to lecture me about measuring sticks? Your response here is ridiculous.

It's amazing to me that you're telling me this given the past actions of Republicans. Just in regards to the Affordable Care Act alone the Republicans are guilty of this.

Even if that wasn't the case though and there was no massive hypocrisy in action here, political parties are allowed to appose the agenda of the president. You should be scared of any future where that isn't allowed.

It is not at all mutually exclusive for Trump to be getting negative coverage and for American news media to be increasingly owned by conservatives. One does not equal the other.

That study is totally bunk as well. ABC, CBS, and NBC and not FOX? Only 3 news sources? No newspapers (and their associated web presence)? That's hardly a proper view of the American news environment.

Saudi Arabia still has plenty of other qualities that make them highly unattractive for ownership of any news media in a Democratic nation.

I think that would require voters to radically change how they vote and who they vote for.

Even before that could happen you would have to completely remake the supreme Court to remove or dilute the six extremely corrupt judges currently running it.

Doing that would most likely require a super majority for the Democrat party in the Senate.

I just don't see voters doing that. Too many of them are concerned with nonsense like trans panic or whether the girl handing you your coffee says Merry Christmas.

Also the Republicans are consistently promising to bring back jobs and to eliminate immigration in order to make the job market better for americans. They are lying but the Democrats don't have an answer for that. Democrats are far too terrified of being called racist to reign in work visa abuses and believe too heavily in the studies showing job growth from immigration. There are alternatives of course to have immigration and a good life for citizens here already but again, voters aren't going to accept those alternatives because they involve too much redistributing of wealth for a society raised on Cold war propaganda...

I honestly cannot think of a solution because basically everyone and everything is working to destroy capitalism. Billionaires have had it with capitalism because they don't want the dependency on consumers and workers anymore. Technology is bearing down hard on capitalism too destroying jobs faster than they can be created. But we don't have any alternative to capitalism Socialism is simply not tenable.

We need to figure out some third Way for everything is going to collapse and I simply don't know of a third way...

Seriously really think about how this headline is written and what it's trying to communicate and what it's trying to make you feel.

Of course Democrats would oppose the deal because it's a massive amount of consolidation and in general they oppose things that would raise prices for consumers. It's a core part of their party platform.

But using the word unravel here implies they're doing something bad. And it takes the focus away from the increased costs to consumers.

The news media is actively manipulating you for a specific purposes. In this case they are actively trying to undermine any attempt to prevent this merger.

As more and more media is owned by billionaires we need to start questioning it more and more often.

Every American who cares about democracy should care about the news media all falling under a single political ideology. Such things rarely work out well for democracy.

It's legitimately frightening how conservatives seem to be buying up all the news media as there's plenty of examples of this not turning out well for democracies.

More conservatives declaring traitorous or similiar activity for simply opposing conservative agendas. Great, thanks for that.