She says a lot more but my eye rolling made me stop reading after the first five sentences
https://xcancel.com/ImBreckWorsham/status/1986436503988297774#m
She says a lot more but my eye rolling made me stop reading after the first five sentences
https://xcancel.com/ImBreckWorsham/status/1986436503988297774#m
I agree with what you said, but I’m like 5% worried you might be referring to “leftist propaganda”.
You think leftist propaganda doesn’t exist?
Not in any meaningful way, at least in the US.
Oh it absolutely does, but nowhere near the volume as rightist propaganda.
Literally all of the major news channels are owned by conservative billionaires now. And a substantial amount of newspapers. They bought your local TV news, too…and in doing so they bought your trust.
Every time I click on a conservative news source, there are half-truths, lies through omission and/or emotional language in an active voice. All the news channels have talking heads scream-talking in an elevated, authoritative voice and have banners run across the bottom in all caps as if it’s yelling at you. It wants your attention, and it wants you to think it’s important and scary.
These are age-old tactics of yellow journalism. Does it happen in leftist news? Sure, sometimes. Not nearly the same level.
The problem is, generally speaking, the full story with whole-facts is damning to the right. So they keep only the news that works for them.
If this wasn’t obvious by the time Kellyanne Conway got up on Meet The Press and told us about “Alternative Facts”, then it should’ve been by the time Trump talked about Haitians eating pet dogs on the debate stage.
I think there’s only a small handful of leftists in American politics at all, and that their propaganda apparatus would be small, if it exists at all. Maybe centrist, neoliberal propaganda, but leftist? Where?
Leftist is a relative position, so what it means changes depending on what it’s compared to. There is always a left and a right as long as there is a meaningful distinction between the two.
In today’s political climate, Leftist propaganda isn’t a threat. It’s irrelevant.
I say this as someone who firmly believes in capitalism and limited government.
Fascism is the only threat that matters right now.
You don’t think Charlie Kirk or Trump shooting are related to propaganda?
First of all, those shooters were right wing nutjobs. So leftist propaganda was definitely not involved.
Virtually all political violence in America is done by rightwing extremists. That’s a fact that’s been true for 45 years. You can look it up.
If you sincerely believed that those shootings were caused by the political left, then you need to fact check your news sources and check your own gullibility, because you got tricked.
Second of all, I meant a threat to our society, democracy, and our way of life. I didn’t mean a threat to individual fascists.
If tankies ever become significant, I’ll be right here arguing against them. But they’re not significant. That’s another fascist lie.
As far as I can tell, there is no official motive known for Crooks, but Robinson was clearly not motivated by right wing propaganda. Where do you get your news? Do you have any sources supporting your theories that they were right wing? The irony…