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So what if people communicate with each other? That's the point of the internet and has been forever. That's like blaming telephones for outrage. What does Q h

So what if people communicate with each other? That's the point of the internet and has been forever. That's like blaming telephones for outrage. What does Q have to do with outrage? Is Q responsible for Smollet and the race baiting by CNN and the rest of the media? Is Q responsible for the russia fearmongering? Are you really blaming small fringe youtube channels for the current state of affairs? Most people get brainwashed into hysteria by CNN, MSBNC, Foxnews, NYTimes, etc, not fringe youtube channels. Conspiracy has been on youtube and the internet forever. It's nothing new and it is fringe. What's new is that the entire media apparatus has decided to shift blame onto social media for the problems they caused. The extremism isn't on youtube, it's on CNN, MSBNC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, Huffpo, Buzzfeed, TheVerge and all the rest of the media. They are the ones spreading conspiracies. They are the ones spread lies. They are the ones spreading hate. They are the ones claiming one side are nazis and the other side are commies. They are the ones lying about trump being a putin slave just like 8 years ago some in the media painted obama as a foreign born muslim. The only ones blaming "Q" are propagandists working for the media or politically affiliated groups. 99% of americans haven't even heard of Q. But 99% of americans have heard the hate-filled divisive propaganda from CNN, MSBNC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, etc. Blaming social media for the current outrage is like blaming mortgage borrowers, rather than the multinational banks for the financial crisis. It's absurd. Also, don't you think it's a bit odd that outrage has increased since youtube, google, facebook, etc shifted their algorithm to favor CNN, MSBNC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, etc. I wonder why. And most importantly, much of the outrage is coming from the left, not the fringe Q crowd. You know the people consuming CNN, MSBNC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, etc. But we can blame "Q" or "4chan" or "russia" or any of the other nonsense the people pretending to be journalists love to spout.

DanBC 8y ago
> much of the outrage is coming from the left I'm not sure how you can say that when most of the actual murders (shooting up church congregations; shooting up synagogues; shooting up festivals; driving cars into protestors; etc etc) is coming from the right. You don't get much more outraged than trying to kill someone.
- porpoisely 8y ago
  You might want to look at crime statistics rather than watching CNN. Yes, there is violence on the right. But there are plenty of violence on the left. The only difference is that the violence one side isn't shown on too much. And the current outrage today is primarily driven by one side's anger at Trump. Just like the outrage 8 years ago was driven by one side's anger at Obama. But you are exactly what I'm talking about. You watch CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, etc and think all the violence and hate is coming from one side. Just like people who watch foxnews think all the violence and hate is coming from the other side. There is plenty of violence and lying on both sides. But when it comes to outrage, usually the side that loses the presidential election tends to be the more outraged. I think I asked you this before, but you aren't even american. Why are you so invested in american politics and particularly spinning the politics towards one side? I hear russians are foreigners causing division, but online, I've only come across british, canadian, etc injecting themselves into american politics.
  - DanBC 8y ago
    I have looked at the stats. It's very clear that most violence, and the worst violence, is from the right. Have a look at the FBI list of domestic terrorists. These are almost all right wing extremists. I'm not talking about journalists getting scuffled at rallies. I'm talking about church congregations getting killed. It's disingenuous to suggest there's any equivalence. https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-terrorist-threat-confronting-the-united-states https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-terrori... > During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremism—as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. The FBI estimates that ALF/ELF have committed approximately 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 42 million dollars. [...] > Right-wing groups continue to represent a serious terrorist threat. Two of the seven planned acts of terrorism prevented in 1999 were potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks being planned by organized right-wing extremist groups.

DanBC 8y ago

> much of the outrage is coming from the left I'm not sure how you can say that when most of the actual murders (shooting up church congregations; shooting up synagogues; shooting up festivals; driving cars into protestors; etc etc) is coming from the right. You don't get much more outraged than trying to kill someone.

porpoisely 8y ago
You might want to look at crime statistics rather than watching CNN. Yes, there is violence on the right. But there are plenty of violence on the left. The only difference is that the violence one side isn't shown on too much. And the current outrage today is primarily driven by one side's anger at Trump. Just like the outrage 8 years ago was driven by one side's anger at Obama. But you are exactly what I'm talking about. You watch CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes, WashingtonPost, etc and think all the violence and hate is coming from one side. Just like people who watch foxnews think all the violence and hate is coming from the other side. There is plenty of violence and lying on both sides. But when it comes to outrage, usually the side that loses the presidential election tends to be the more outraged. I think I asked you this before, but you aren't even american. Why are you so invested in american politics and particularly spinning the politics towards one side? I hear russians are foreigners causing division, but online, I've only come across british, canadian, etc injecting themselves into american politics.
- DanBC 8y ago
  I have looked at the stats. It's very clear that most violence, and the worst violence, is from the right. Have a look at the FBI list of domestic terrorists. These are almost all right wing extremists. I'm not talking about journalists getting scuffled at rallies. I'm talking about church congregations getting killed. It's disingenuous to suggest there's any equivalence. https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-terrorist-threat-confronting-the-united-states https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/testimony/the-terrori... > During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country. During the past several years, special interest extremism—as characterized by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)—has emerged as a serious terrorist threat. The FBI estimates that ALF/ELF have committed approximately 600 criminal acts in the United States since 1996, resulting in damages in excess of 42 million dollars. [...] > Right-wing groups continue to represent a serious terrorist threat. Two of the seven planned acts of terrorism prevented in 1999 were potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks being planned by organized right-wing extremist groups.