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There's arguments to be made about how other people probably would've lied less, provided a front that people could trust better, or wouldn't get into stupid petty fights that continually worsen the crisis, but it is hard to tell how different people would've reacted to the crisis. People don't talk about enough though how Trump has been proactive about this though. How he actively placed the government in a worse position to deal with the crisis by firing the pandemic response team, defunding the CDC, and generally making the government weaker and less capable. To say nothing of how the current state of politics galvanized his party around denying healthcare under any circumstances and core republicans being even more detached in a fantasy land than ever before.
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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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Jun 11, 2020 04:36
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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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