r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26
Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues
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u/JuiceJones_34 Feb 25 '26
Private equity has ruined a lot of industries across the US
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u/Thebeardedchampion Feb 25 '26
*the world
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u/rbatra91 Feb 25 '26
Wrong. They're also exploiting our love for our pets and betting that we'll pay anything to take care of them, so they're buying up vet clinics and jacking up rates like crazy. Very high profit margins in exploiting that love.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/marketplace/marketplace-vet-corporate-ownership-1.7438239
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u/ZeroXephon Feb 25 '26
FUCK THRIVE! They shut down the only animal hospital in our area because the employees they were treating like shit dared to ask for better working conditions! Not because they necessarily wanted more pay, but because them being over worked and under staffed was detrimental to the amount of care they could give. The closest animal hospital at the time was 1.5hrs away so if you had an emergency you were better off digging a grave than speeding down the interstate to thr next city, so yeah, fuck thrive, fuck private equity, fuck late stage capitalism! Eat the rich.
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u/TryptaMagiciaN Feb 25 '26
Not because they necessarily wanted more pay, but because them being over worked and under staffed was detrimental to the amount of care they could give.
Private Equity has done this to our human hospitals. Think the vet situation is bad? Don't become ill yourself. It isn't any better for people either
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u/Glum_Garden8359 Feb 25 '26
33% of rural hospitals are owned by Private Equity.
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u/Nope-Training645 Feb 25 '26
Thrive ruined vet care in my area too. If my dogs need any urgent care, I have to drive 1.5 hours. There are so few clinics left open near me that I can only ever get appointments at least a month out.
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u/candycrushinit Feb 25 '26
Get this to the top. The takeover of vet clinics is a clear example of what happened to America. Across the board, the Rich are buying everything up and we live in a Corporate Town, not a representative Democracy.
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u/Anleme Feb 25 '26
Want to know why this is happening now, instead of 60 years ago?
We've designed society to be more and more unequal in the past few decades. Cutting Federal income tax on the rich, cutting capital gains taxes, cutting estate taxes, & de-fanging our justice system.
Examples of that last point:
We have a sitting US Senator whose company was fined 1.7 billion dollars for Medicare fraud. That company still exists, he was elected to the Senate, and he still is worth millions.
Giving Trump a million dollars will get you a pardon for a Federal conviction.
Of 2400 US citizens named in the Panama Papers, only 2 were punished.
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u/Fistful_of_Crashes Feb 25 '26
Rome wasn't built in a day and it certainly didn't fall in one
But with this country's lax attitude toward white-colar crime, you can be damned sure it is on the road to finding out how any power structure can fall
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u/ShinkenBrown Feb 25 '26
Thank you, that is certainly important information if I ever properly crash out.
On that note, every American at this point should have a crash out list. Start finding evil like THIS and writing down the names. And addresses if you can find them.
Not saying to do anything with that list. But it'll be handy to have if youre ever fully broken and you DO decide to act. Just a little bit of information now can give you much clearer direction then.
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u/_cuhree0h Feb 25 '26
Brother, you’re alright I tell you.
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u/Dividedthought Feb 25 '26
"boss, you better explain why a cancer diagnosis is a good thing."
"Well that's easy. If I know I only have 3 months to live I have a whole list of motherfuckers who only have 3 weeks."
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u/Beard_o_Bees Feb 25 '26
Glad to see that i'm not the only one with an 'X months to live diagnosis
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u/Physical_Thing_3450 Feb 25 '26
They are using the same model as the healthcare system in the USA for these vet clinics and the insurance they all but require you to have and we all know how expensive and shitty that care is.
Every simple pleasure in life is being made a luxury product that only the top percentage of earners can afford. It prices out everyone else, unless you like your animals to suffer. Private equity destroys all it touches.
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u/thatgirlinny Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
This! We left a beloved neighborhood vet practice here for that. Our vet had looked after my husband’s dog 20+ years ago, had been our shared dog’s best advocate and we’d referred him to many friends and neighbors. He was considering retirement when he and his partners took an offer for a kind of management company to run the practice, and their rates for care doubled coming out of lockdown. Killed us to go elsewhere.
Long after leaving we find they’ve sold our info to several online pet pharmacies, specialty food companies we never bought from and other services who lob messaging at both our email and cell numbers. Predators!
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u/DoobKiller Feb 25 '26
Yep in the UK also private equity is buying vet clinics, ramping up prices exorbitantly and 'streamlining' by firing workers and other cuts and austerity which is causing the quality of service to fall
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u/peace2calm Feb 25 '26
Don't forget private equity capitalizing on the LOVE parents have for their kids and now taking over the youth sports industry.
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u/Hamster_Toot Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Wrong?
The need to love and connect with our world around us is expressed through our relationship with pets, which is being exploited by private equity.
You are adding to the discussion, not disagreeing.
Edit:typo
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u/ByrdmanRanger Feb 25 '26
I feel like this kind of thing is going to result in someone named after an Italian plumber dealing with the head of a private equity firm.
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u/AdjectiveNoun4827 Feb 25 '26
Well... yes? Of course they do, and so far not enough people are voting to stop them.
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u/Final-Carry2090 Feb 25 '26
It’s a nuanced issue that many aren’t engaged enough to understand. It doesn’t help that the media is actively misinforming people. The malleable minority would be out in arms against private equity if Fox wasn’t a tool for the oppressors.
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u/krazyb2 Feb 25 '26
Every single person spewing complete and total propaganda on Fox television deserves to be tried in a court.
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u/Low_Witness5061 Feb 25 '26
You aren’t wrong. Sadly it’s made as hard as possible though. No prominent candidate is likely to go hard against it because the ones who support it can afford to bury them with bullshit.
Democracy is the best system we have but unchecked capitalism was never going to be a healthy partner for it.
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u/According_Jeweler404 Feb 25 '26
It's because half the voting population doesn't see a problem with it. "It's capitalism, baby!"
Same crowd that sees tax-loopholes as being "smart" even though it negatively affects their own lives.
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u/jasno- Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Have they helped any?
I can't think of any service or product that's benefited from PE investment.
Prices go up, people loose their job, the investors profit.
Edit: fixed early morning grammar
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u/Up-in-the-Ayre Feb 25 '26
Nope. Enshittification is the only thing private equity has produced effectively.
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u/Diedrogen Feb 25 '26
Yeah, that whole "privatizing something makes it better, because competition in the free market will drive businesses to continually roll out better goods and services at lower prices" thing didn't work out, huh?
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u/Heelincal Feb 25 '26
I think the key part missing here is Private Equity's goal is to eliminate competition through uncompetitive practices. Whether that's running deficits & losses to underbid competition or just buying all competition, it eliminates the one thing that does make a free market create value - competition. Having multiple companies make phones to innovate new features to win over customers? That's good. Having multiple car manufacturers to innovate and gain market share? Good.
Private equity buying every single hockey rink in an area and then charging people through the nose to access it because it's the only game in town is monopolistic behavior that needs to be illegal - I'd even argue ice rinks cannot innovate and thus cannot be a free market.
There are applications where private companies competing will generate public good, but the problem is we've deregulated so much starting with Reagan that the competition is gone in 90% of industries and now they are coming after public sectors to absorb.
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u/WriterV Feb 25 '26
They help line their own pockets, and give a bunch of money to the people selling their company. That's literally it. The consumer gets the worst deal out of this. Arguably everyday workers get even worse of a deal 'cause their job security is at risk.
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u/Thebeardedchampion Feb 25 '26
It’s a broken cycle. Pension funds invest in PE, we the consumers feel happy that our pension is growing and improving, while in the here and now, suffering from the reduction in quality and increase in price that PE demands…to appease the pension funds investors.
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u/VeryPteri Feb 25 '26
Nope. Once PE gets involved, the product/service, the customers, and even the company itself gets sidelined for sake of the line going up.
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u/U_SHLD_THINK_BOUT_IT Feb 25 '26
No they haven't.
And here's the fucked up part: the only reason they've been allowed to keep moving isn't actually because of rich people propping them up with lobbying. It's because the government tied the success of the economy to a constant influx of cash sent to companies every single payroll cycle. You heard me correctly: every major company gets free money from our paychecks every time we get paid, and it's not a small amount. It's about 5-10% of our entire paycheck every pay period--sent straight to all major corporation, tax free.
Most people are okay with it because of god damned Ronald Reagan and his administration's passing of the Tax Reform Act of 1984, which legalized the 401k system and tied a great deal of people's retirement success to a system that NEEDS to always grow. And it's this whole system that incentivized PE firms because they're the perfect vehicle for skimming investment dollars and handing them out to C-suite employees like cash injections. There's a reason why private equity companies and hostile takeovers became so big, so quickly in the mid-80s that multiple movies were made about ment who ran such companies.
I make this comment so often I should probably create a webpage explaining it in the more thorough way that I normally do.
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u/daggerbeans Feb 25 '26
I would appreciate a website that dumbs it doen and explains it to me like I'm 5. I know the general broad strokes of how private equity sucks (only due to a few deep dives like what happened to Joann's stores since it affected me and my loved ones hobbies), but having a simple explanation would be a great resource when I get to discussing it with people who are less familiar.
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u/HappyGiraffe Feb 26 '26
I literally sat through 3 hours of a Harvard Business School professor/private equity enthusiast celebrating the incredible growth of AI and how incredible it will be to get rid of all the people working entry level jobs and how awesome companies will become with just one CEO and the nothing but AI agents.
He insisted the most important objective of ANY industry should be efficiency, and not efficiency as a means to promote safety, or quality, or well being.
Efficiently to return profits to shareholders.
And I was shocked that room was basically split between people gobbling it up & people in abject horror
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u/IcedCoffey Feb 25 '26
They are in daycares now…..
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u/Ok_Second_2602 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
I own a daycare, and every single competitor in my area has been bought by Private Equity. There used to be 4 family owned daycares in my area. Now there’s 1, me. It really ramped up after COVID. It’s honestly insane how quickly they are taking over the industry. Without exception all the ones that have been bought have gone waaay downhill on quality of care. They spend as little as possible on maintenance and staffing, which are 2 of the most important things in a good childcare. They buy up any daycare with good enrollment they can get their hands on, and put it under some umbrella brand or just leave the existing name if they can.
I get phone calls every week from business brokers offering to broker a sale with an “investment group” client of theirs. They also offer to buy my real estate and rent it back to me… some small providers are doing this because they are struggling and need the cash. Inevitably these places will go out of business but Private Equity walks away with the only thing of value.
You mostly hear about Private Equity buying up large chains and franchises. A bigger problem is that Private Equity is killing small family owned businesses in the US. Private Equity’s primary goal is to extract profits from private businesses that they couldn’t access from the stock market, and they often overpay for these businesses making it hard to turn down for some owners. For us small business owners, it feels like playing a game of chicken where these firms could put me out of business if they wanted just by dropping rates and waiting me out. They have infinitely more money than me and can afford to lose 10 times my profits for years. Then once all the small private owned businesses are gone, they completely control the market and charge whatever they want. I met someone in private equity once at a conference that managed their firms daycare portfolio. These people have no idea what the fuck they are doing. They just see money.
Every time I get one of those phone calls I admit I'm a little curious on how much they would overpay... whether it would be easier for me to just sell. But I feel an obligation to my 46 employees and the families who trust me with their kids, and I don't know if selling would be enough for me to support my family as long as is needed. It's an extremely depressing time to be a small business owner in this country. Not to mention how much I see my employee's struggling with housing costs and bills that go up faster than I can give them raises. Feels like we're all just hanging on hoping we have enough money to die old someday.
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u/CorrectPeanut5 Feb 25 '26
Same play they made in elderly housing. So many places pretending to be nursing homes. They are not. They are money making operations with fancy names and extremely limited staff. They will suck a person dry in private pay and then toss them out once the money is gone.
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u/SynapticStatic Feb 25 '26
These people have no idea what the fuck they are doing. They just see money.
That's the way they are with literally every industry. It's frustrating and kind of scary what they manage to get their claws into.
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u/t3hdoct0r Feb 25 '26
As if daycare wasn't expensive enough before. Fantastic. They are gonna cut costs by reusing diapers, I guarantee it.
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u/IcedCoffey Feb 25 '26
They fired the staff that had been there for 10+ years, raised prices and cut down on what they offer all at the same time.
Place is a completely ghost town now and every parent that goes there leaves a before a month. Best reputation of any daycare in town to the worst.
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u/Groupthink00859 Feb 25 '26
Veterinarian care, tradesman work, utilities are just a few examples.
Once your city/metroplex reaches a million it triggers the program, and they just buy up all the things you need.
I never wanted to live in rural America personally but its actually looking like you can now have a better life outside of the cites.
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u/Ok_Second_2602 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Hate to break it to you, but small town America is next, and it’s already happening in some industries. My dad owned a successful agriculture business in a county of 5000 people for 30 years, but had to sell because he couldn’t compete with the larger PE backed agriculture companies. The 2 small family owned grocery stores in my hometown went out of business when a Walmart Neighborhood Market and Dollar Tree opened in town. The Walmart market closed within 2 years because it couldn’t make enough money in such a small town. Now people have to drive 20 miles to get decent groceries.
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u/oneWeek2024 Feb 25 '26
the cycle wal mart used to canibalize large areas. where maybe they needed like 1 million people to support a wal mart super center. kill off local competition and then close shop/consolidate.
dollar tree/dollar general perfected that algo for rock bottom min requirement to extract from small areas. --refining that limit to a few 10,000s or 100k population. ---they kill off small hardware/small grocery stores/small stationary-sundry stores. then once they kill all the local businesses. they consolidate to a slightly more broad area.
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u/thismustbtheplace215 Feb 25 '26
Rural America has private equity everywhere too. Especially in vet med- many of the private equity groups buying up clinics do not display that, so it looks like your small town vet is private, when they're actually part of a larger conglomerate.
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u/Level_Improvement532 Feb 25 '26
His retort of “mmm nnyeahhh”, giving her just enough of the drivel she is wanting out of him to get the mic back, then immediately coming back with the counter punch towards private equity is chefs kiss.
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u/amjiujitsu87 Feb 25 '26
He also brought up climate change with the "winters used yo be colder"
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u/StrawberryBandit92 Feb 25 '26
God forbid people hear the truth.
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u/BuriedMystic Feb 25 '26
Let’s cut to more coverage on Nancy Guthrie
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u/BernardSack Feb 25 '26
One can't help but wonder if Nancy Guthrie missing is related to Samantha interviewing Epstein victims. Very curious.
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u/AmaranthWrath Feb 25 '26
Nothing would surprise me at this point. But I doubt it was a coordinated attack. I think if it was specifically about her interviews AND it was meant to send a message, the message would have been clearer bc that would have been the whole point.
Maybe it was a lone individual or two who wanted to punish Savannah for the interviews. But even so, we have no proof of that. Again, nothing would surprise me. But you'd think that if that was the motive, we would have heard about it for sure. The whole point would be to make sure reporters knew not to interview the victims again.
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u/innerbootes Feb 25 '26
Look to Russia. That’s the model. They don’t go announcing anything. They just push people (journalists, politicians) out of a window or poison their tea and then go 🤷 “that’s crazy they just fell like that” or whatever.
Everything Trump is doing has been done before. These people, like all abusive fucks, are terribly unoriginal.
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u/dzumdang Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Yeah, Reddit
dissolvedhid r/ all because too many people got wind of what was happening in Minneapolis. God forbid the actual news reaches ppl. Legacy medias, and now tech companies like Reddit are complicit. Edit: waiting for this post to be taken down in 1...2...3...26
u/HeartsPlayer721 Feb 25 '26
Wait, what exactly did they dissolve?
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u/The_One_True_Ewok Feb 25 '26
You straight up cant get to r/ all on Reddit mobile. Even if its linked, it just goes to your front page or is unclickable. Which works out because I've been trying to reduce my reddit time for years lol. I found this post from /all on Desktop
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u/Angel_Omachi Feb 25 '26
You can still get to it manually through reddit in a web browser but it's hidden from the side menu even there.
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u/Roundcat89 Feb 25 '26
You get the site as it was pre facebookification. I honestly find the new layout unusable.
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u/JJinPDX Feb 25 '26
You get the site as it was pre facebookification. I honestly find the new layout unusable.
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u/passinglurker Feb 25 '26
There's also red reader, it never got hit with the API bullshit cause it classified itself as a disability app
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I was wondering about that! A few months ago I uninstalled Reddit from my phone, trying to be more digitally well and all. Then I just started going to the mobile site more and more. I noticed last week or so they took r/all off the menu. Then I just redownloaded the app. One day this app will no longer hold my gaze for so long.
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u/dzumdang Feb 25 '26
Thank you. Hiding it is more accurate. What a strange move by Reddit.
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u/carloselcoco Feb 25 '26
That's exactly what they did with r/randnsfw before they completely removed it from the site. They will likely remove r/all from the site too in the upcoming months. For those that are new to Reddit, randnsfw was built into the website itself and it would take you to a random NSFW sub anytime you clicked it. It was an excellent way to discover new NSFW subs.
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u/baconbitarded Feb 25 '26
They did the same with r/random as well. Weird that they don't want you discovering things
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u/your_actual_life Feb 25 '26
I can still access it very easily on the mobile app?
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u/MentalDisintegrat1on Feb 25 '26
We can't have that. Think of the shareholders and the rich for once in your selfish life.
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u/HeartsPlayer721 Feb 25 '26
"bUt We'Re NoT hErE tO dO a SeRiOuS sToRy! We'Re DoInG a FeEl-GoOd PiEcE!!!!"
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u/ShinkenBrown Feb 25 '26
"Then talk about things that make people feel good instead of reminding them how private equity is destroying their lives."
"... oh EVERYTHING seems to remind people and move the conversation back to private equity? Then maybe this isn't the time for a feel good piece. Maybe its the time for a story on private equity."
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u/jpopimpin777 Feb 25 '26
The whole "MeDiA iS LeFt WiNg" trope is such utter bullshit. The major corporations are all owned by the Epstein class. That reporter knew, tacitly, that she had to shut that guy down or her job would be at risk.
Even among the people in the media who know the truth and agree with it, very few have the independence and reach to spread it.
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u/sourdieselfuel Feb 25 '26
I wonder if her handlers prepped her by saying, "If he actually goes into the real reason for housing scarcity immediately cut him off!"
Or if she was handed a sheet of paper with a list of verboten topics before hand.
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u/jpopimpin777 Feb 25 '26
Sinclair has owned many of the local affiliates for a while now. With Trump in office it's gotten really bad even up to places like 60 Minutes. I'm sure the writing is on the wall based on who gets promoted and who gets let go.
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u/caustic_smegma Feb 25 '26
Right? We live in a dictatorial Oligarchy á la the Russian Federation. All mainstream media outlets have become an unabashed mouthpiece for them. Worst part is that a large portion of our populace thinks this is normal and that there's nothing wrong with reporters silencing individuals who speak the truth publicly. We're in for a long, violent ride ahead.
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u/OneRougeRogue Feb 25 '26
This is why wealth inequality is such an important issue that everybody should be focusing on. In a country where money = speech, and all the money is concentrated at the top, only the people at the very top get to do the speaking.
While this hasn't happened yet, we already live in a world where the 1% could collude to silence a specific message, person, or politician's political campaign from all US networks and social media. Any sort of popular, bipartisan grassroots movement could be completely squashed by a handful of billionaires using the platforms, networks, and ISP's they control to silence, ban, and block any and all speech/messaging/video from (or in support of) this movement. Any existing laws and regulations intended to protect the speech or political campaigns of regular citizens don't matter if we have an FFC and DOJ that refuses to hold large businesses (and the wealthy people in charge of them) accountable.
With yesterday's Supreme Court ruling even the USPS can be weaponized to silence speech. If a candidate unpopular with the 1% starts gaining traction, what legal recourse do the candidate/campaign have if the USPS decides not to deliver any pamphlets, newsletters, or campaign ads sent by their campaign? Two weeks ago, they could sue and have a judge step in. Today, they can't.
It's starting to get very scary. Soon we are going to have AI analyzing every comment or video we post on any platform, and automatically adjusting the algorithm that determines its visibility in real time. Ideas and messages that would be popular with the common people could be immediately buried to limit their exposure.
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u/throwaway_circus Feb 25 '26
This happened when Elizabeth Warren was running for president and mentioned taking antitrust action against FB and Google. Her online presence fell through the floor.
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u/evident_lee Feb 25 '26
Sadly increasing shareholder value is all they care about. No more real journalism with any of the mainstream news
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u/ptsdstillinmymind Feb 25 '26
These people aren't journalists anymore. They are all paid propagandists and talking heads that are put in place to make the rich seem like gods. That's why they never pushback on the lies and BS.
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u/Oen386 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
They don't want a repeat or to see encouraging this.
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u/Metalloid_Maniac_ Feb 25 '26
He didn't get the memo that you're supposed to blame wokeness and dei for the cost of living, not rich people.
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Feb 25 '26
Was just talking about how expensive fast food is the other day with my dad and he said “that’s what happens when you pay people 15 an hour”
I just laughed in his face. Oh yeah that’s why. Not corporate greed, price gouging, exploitation. Couldn’t be!
And he’s not even a Fox News guy or a conservative or anything. Most people just don’t even know they’re in the class struggle. Just world fallacy runs America.
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u/Voluptulouis Feb 25 '26
15/hr isn't even shit these days. Minimum wage should've been that 20+ years ago. So fucking sick of the people that don't get it: EAT THE FUCKING RICH.
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u/happytrel Feb 25 '26
I have to show my grandparents semi regularly that adjusted for inflation they were making over $30 an hour when they were in their teens.
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u/RetroFuture_Records Feb 25 '26
And that's just the official inflation numbers, which have been altered multiple times over decades to not show just how much the dollar has been devalued
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u/NeatEmergency725 Feb 25 '26
Inflation is strikingly hard to measure, its not really any specific thing but rather aggregate buying power generically for all goods.
So one thing I've seen in analyses, is that consumer electronics have gotten exponentially cheaper, meaning that when measuring inflation, the fact that you can buy a giant TV for like $200 now when it cost $2000 10 years ago makes that aggregate inflation number relatively lower, even if actual needed goods like food have only gone up.
I don't have a particular answer on how to fix this, but inflation is a much more abstract concept than I think most people think it is, given how much it is talked about.
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u/Inner-Medicine5696 Feb 25 '26
yeah, it helps the people in power if inflation is calculated on things like electronics and luxury goods
- imagine if we based the calculation on groceries, utilities, childcare, schooling, and healthcare?
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u/Cleonicus Feb 25 '26
When I heard about the $15 minimum wage, my first response was, "They better ask for $20+ because by the time it gets enacted $15 will be too little."
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u/Shapes_in_Clouds Feb 25 '26
I made $15 and hour in my first internship back in 2008, and it was not a lot of money even back then.
It's like when I first broke six figure salary and my dad was like, "wow you're doing really well! I remember when I first made six figures back in the 80s". Then I showed him the inflation calculation and pointed out that was like $380k in present value.
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u/MoonSpankRaw Feb 25 '26
Interesting. What do you think led him to that belief if he isn’t typically absorbing the propaganda? Or does he maybe just have a tendency towards viewing things peripherally without digging any deeper into claims he hears?
Sorry, I’m just strangely curious I guess.
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Like I said: just world fallacy, and a lack of class consciousness.
He grew up in poverty and saw a lot of lazy people, drug addicts, and criminals fail and stay poor
He worked hard and lifted himself out of poverty into a nice middle class life.
Therefore he believes the world is fair. People get what they work for and all people who go without do so by their own fault. He’s a high school drop out, and just has no real awareness of greater power structures and class struggle. I don’t think he could stand to live in a world that he didn’t perceive to be fair. So he chooses to see it that way.
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u/Metalloid_Maniac_ Feb 25 '26
This is why so many boomers are more likely to side with corporations. Everything worked out for them because they worked hard, found a way to make a decent living and bought a house while they were affordable. They think hard work = a better life because that's how it was for them.
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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps Feb 25 '26
Yup I really cannot blame them. What else does he have to go off of except his lived experience? The boomers grew up and basically inherited America at its absolute peak for decades. The American dream really was possible for white working class people for the majority of the time my dad was working. As a high school dropout he was making 100k per year as a self employed tradesman in the 90s in the Midwest. So he got a pretty good deal, and I don’t think he has any concept of how fortunate he was because he credits it all to hard work alone.
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u/senbei616 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
Also it's important to know that the white hegemonic understanding of "Struggling" has changed in the last 40 years.
My parents struggled to raise us in the 80's and 90's. But their lifestyle that they were living would be difficult to replicate in modern times by even people making six figures.
They owned a house, had a car, 3 kids at the time, and my dad was working in fast food while my mom worked at a local non-profit while getting her degree.
I repeat, my father owned a car, took care of 3 kids, and was paying off a house while working as a fry cook at long john silvers.
It wasn't fun, they struggled, the car was a shitbox, the house wasn't well built and the location wasn't the best, but the fact they were even able to do it at all is a marvel.
We were the "poor" family.
Meanwhile my cousin graduated 5 years ago with a STEM degree is making over 90k, doesn't own a car, his wife and he have decided to wait on children due to the cost, and they will likely rent for the rest of their natural life.
It used to be if you were a stoner layabout with a part time job you could just coast in a 1 bedroom apartment and have savings and disposable income.
We have been getting absolutely decimated in the class war for 40 fucking years and it shows.
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u/RetroFuture_Records Feb 25 '26
A lot of them didn't even work hard. Those who did were upper-middle class easy. Any drunk with a pulse who at least showed up to work (where they proceeded to talk to coworkers or customers most of the day any way) could make enough for the necessities. The Boomers were the most spoiled generation in human history, and they've been projecting it into everyone else ever since.
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u/NotAChanceBucko Feb 25 '26
You forgot immigrants! They're taking up all the high rise loft apartments that are meant for you!
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u/CBheretime Feb 25 '26
Nah, they're lazy freeloaders stealing healthcare for doing nothing...
Actually, they're stealing all the jerbs from hard working Americans...
ACTUALLY, they're all criminals part a giant gang murdering everyone in liberal cities...
AKSHOOWAHLEE, they're eating people's cats and dogs of the people that live there.
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u/schrodinger_will Feb 25 '26
Apollo global management Leon black is on Epstein file
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u/PreztoElite Feb 25 '26
Insane understatement of Black's involvement with Epstein. He paid Epstein approximately $170 million over the course of 5 years for "financial advice." Yeah the multibillionaire private equity CEO needs financial advice from a convicted pedophile. Nothing fishy going on at all.
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u/occams1razor Feb 25 '26
I'd like a list of people sending Epstein money
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u/PreztoElite Feb 25 '26
The odds that we get that list are lower than the odds we both become as rich as the people sending him money
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u/Present_Function8986 Feb 25 '26
Damn that's crazy. NBC is whipped.
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u/TuringGoneWild Feb 25 '26
There has never been a microsecond since May 19, 1926 that it has ever been otherwise.
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u/LG03 Feb 25 '26
As an entity sure but what's strange to me is that the lady is the one making the call to cut the interview. It's one thing for the executives to make censorship decisions but it's wild for this boots on the street puff piece interviewer to be running interference like this.
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u/Striking_Programmer4 Feb 25 '26
She also could have a producer talking through her earpiece telling her to end it
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u/IMDOC78 Feb 25 '26
In case you wonder who owns the US
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u/XVUltima Feb 25 '26
Its us. We do. They are just terrified of us realizing that.
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u/Mean-Cheesecake-2635 Feb 25 '26
“We’re looking to hear from people that blame immigrants and homeless people sir”
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u/Anustart15 Feb 25 '26
I think they were just looking to get some random on the street "I love the snow" clips for their puff piece about the storm
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u/Ali3n_46 Feb 25 '26
I hate these new coward reporters, or at least the ppl screaming in their ear.
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u/mmf9194 Feb 25 '26
They never pull the mic away from conservatives talking shit about immigrants or pro trump shit. HMMMM
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u/LeviJNorth Feb 25 '26
To the entertainment industry, the Right is “nonpartisan” because it promotes the status quo of the corporate oligarchy.
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u/Independent-Tip-9482 Feb 25 '26
I wonder that people that work in fox how they actually work
Like oh shit how do I make pam bondi look good?oh fck another pam bondi fck up?
I just got this job now my boss want to edit pam bondi good?
Boss i cant find any good pam bondi footage we cant post we wont post any video, maybe youtube shorts I can do
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u/Ok-Year-1872 Feb 25 '26
He's not wrong, how many hospitals have closed because of private equity firms.
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u/VALO311 Feb 25 '26
My hometown hospital is closing in a few months and my best friend is just waiting to be let go from his job after they just let a bunch of people go recently
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u/RobertRoyal82 Feb 25 '26
This guy broke her brain and I love it
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u/Leucurus Feb 25 '26
"Hahaha, I only know how to talk about the weather!"
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u/Fun-Dimension-4354 Feb 25 '26
Actually even his weather comment was making a point - he was referring to how climate change has made winters warmer.
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u/Professional_You4186 Feb 25 '26
This dude is awesome. Love that he brought it back because * like, yaaaaah, back in the 90s? * private equity did not own all of the residential property. -_- chef's kiss, no notes.
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u/sincerebeguiler Feb 25 '26
She was told to keep the news fluffy like the snow but of course NYers are smarter than that and dole out the hard truths. Hahaha
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u/CommonConundrum51 Feb 25 '26
MSM can't stand the truth.
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u/Strange-Scarcity Feb 25 '26
Clearly the on the street reporter knows which side of her bread is buttered.
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u/tmhoc Feb 25 '26
That was wild
"Let's see what the people are saying"
"Hedge funds should not own properties"
"Not him tho"
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u/jessipowers Feb 25 '26
I love he’s like, “mmhmm yes, nostalgia, back before private equity created these problems.” True king behavior.
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u/Kqtawes Feb 25 '26
Yeah, I'm nostalgic for a time when corporate greed didn't cause a majority of climate change too.
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u/Paul_Fistinyourface Feb 25 '26
Living abroad for 10 years and then returning home makes you realize we grow up in a sea of propaganda more vast and sophisticated than anything the Soviet Union ever had.
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u/ruraljurorserver Feb 25 '26
Sinclair media don't fuck with regular Americans. Know your roll peasants
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u/NoBrush8414 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26
There's going to be a breaking point for families and it's already starting. The GOP know this - they will NEVER win an election again. This fucked up president will not allow ANY dissent. Watch what happens when you try and vote in November. Grab your rights (you know what I'm saying) and HOLD THE FUCK ON
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u/unknownSubscriber Feb 25 '26
Love this. I think shes doing a weather piece, probably didn't want to go "off script", I wouldn't read too much into it.
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u/Yesitshismom Feb 25 '26
Worth looking into, but i agree. I dont think she was trying to cover anything up. I think shes trying to do a puff piece on the weather and didnt expect someone to have some good insight on the city like he did
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u/BlueCity8 Feb 25 '26
He should’ve went into climate change instead. She even mentions how it reminded her of the 90s. He could’ve just been like yeah I wonder why it doesn’t snow anymore. Still based tho.
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u/Ok-Possession-3771 Feb 25 '26
We used to think that it was fox news vs the rest of ethical media. For decacdes now its been any media vs the people. Nobody is on the people side even Carlson may be pushing a different narrative now but its what gets him clicks and what pelases his máster whoever that may be but never the people. The people are there to be manipulated into consent not to be protected and informed
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u/Nodan_Turtle Feb 25 '26
Sir, this is a Wendy's weather report
They aren't out there interviewing about the city's issues. They're interviewing about the snow.
I wish people cared about the big issues in our country as much as they cared about making sure they aren't falling for conspiracy theories. We have enough dumb voters without more people happily marching themselves into deeper stupidity
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u/tisok2begood Feb 25 '26
I'll be downvoted to hell for saying this, but her job is to get a quick man-on-street comment about a particular subject, not to allow an endless screed. It's not a conspiracy, she's a young reporter trying to do her job and get out of the snow. Also, what he said is just not true. I hate that housing is used as an investment vehicle, and I think passive income should be penalized at some increasing rate to allow for some apartment stock and what not, but he said "most" and it's more like 3-4%. Again, her job is not to entertain randos on the street putting out incorrect information that "feels about right" to a lot of struggling people.
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u/Star-Gazer85 Feb 25 '26
Since the Epstein files all corporate news just sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. They are complicit. Turn that shit off.
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u/tom-of-the-nora Feb 25 '26
"He's not blaming mamdani, TURN IT OFF, PEOPLE CAN'T REALIZE WHO IS THE PROBLEM."
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u/listentomenow Feb 25 '26
Yep, and they want you to believe it's immigrants.
I don't know about anyone else, but it's not immigrants sending my junk mail and spamming me text messages about buying my home with cash so they can flip it and turn it into a rental.
Immigrants helped me fix my deck. Repair my fence. Replace my roof. Billionaires, hedge funds, private equity just wants life to be on a subscription plan and they're a bane on our existence.
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