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I mean, welcome to 2017. Antifa has been a favorite boogeyman of conservatives for years by this point. Their whole media bubble basically relies upon scaremongering to keep everything together, and since the protests are basically the big thing happening all over the country all at once at a time where there's not much news going on (other than covid, which Fox also desperately wants to downplay), the only way conservative media can deal with it is by wading past the blood and bodies in the street to find a few clips of property damage, so Antifa is an easy scapegoat to conjure up in order to ignore the thousands of examples of valid complaints so that the protests become just another threat for conservatives to panic about. Cross that with the concurrent campaign to encourage conservatives to buy guns and be ready to use them against potential threats, and it's not hard to see how that could go badly. Anybody who wanted to secretly encourage that to erupt into violence (aside from, y'know, people like the president who are publicly calling for violence) wouldn't so much have to light a match as just lay down some tinder on the fire that's already lit.
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Yup. Welcome to the next satanic panic.
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The satanic panic was not priming our crazies them to kill people. I mean it was a poo poo manipulation. But it wasn’t preparing crazies to murder. I live in a place discussed in one of those articles. I saw them congregating at the gun store, while the communities children protested.
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Cross posting from the POL thread: https://twitter.com/aetherlev/status/1274726592481091587?s=20 Bar Ran Dun fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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lol that's just a layperson somehow thinking that the GOP using racism + modern digital marketing techniques is in any way remarkable or unique to Trump and then wildly speculating how much trouble the kpop stans are causing them
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https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1282376113189195777
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https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/72020-2
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Twitter coming down hard on Qanon too.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Twitter coming down hard on Qanon too. thank christ, about time
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Bar Ran Dun posted:The satanic panic was not priming our crazies them to kill people. I mean it was a poo poo manipulation. But it wasn’t preparing crazies to murder. Conspiracy theorizing the hell out of everything seems kind of like applying the ethos of Intelligent Design to society and its quirks; how much easier is it to say "Forces beyond our understanding did this!" than it is to tackle just how much today is a natural progression from yesterday, and how much power an individual or a group with a dream and a plan can really wield. Of course there are powerful, shadowy groups with ambitious agendas. But they're not the success story they get portrayed as by the paranoid. Goddamn it pisses me off that Conspiracy Theorism has basically been weaponised. It's so twisted up these days that many of the people who spoke out warning us in 2001 that the Patriot Act was going to enable federal thugs to blackbag people, are now saying that federal thugs blackbagging people is somehow a good thing because Ben Garrison's Trump exists in their brain instead of reality. Possibly because they're racist shitbags but it makes no difference.
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People think in stories. There has to be a story presented to them in their language and symbols. A lot of the people getting sucked into these things don’t have a story that fits their lived experience. So somebody comes in with one. Once one is already in getting it out or changing it is challenging.
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Propagandists figured that they could just cast enough doubt in the more reliable sources of information to induce paranoid delusions so that people would do their own legwork rejecting contrary information. Last Week Tonight did a relevant segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b_eHBZLM6U Although there are plenty of conspiracy theories without direct political motivations that end up harmful in their own way. People questioning things is important, but I sure hate how big the antivax movement is.
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