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Ugh. Uuuggghhhh. Another "this is huge, if true" speculation article. So we know nothing about his motives, but "anti-5g" fits the bill, so let's write a long
by bjt2n3904 6y ago
Ugh. Uuuggghhhh. Another "this is huge, if true" speculation article.
So we know nothing about his motives, but "anti-5g" fits the bill, so let's write a long thought provoking piece assuming that is fact.
Eventually, it won't matter what his motives were. If we keep writing speculative pieces like these, they simply become fact in the public eye.
> ... If true, it shines a light on the longstanding need for [buzzword buzzword blah blah legislation blah]
You don't need to understand this guy's motives to shine a light on this. Heck, if his motives were, "I really enjoyed Breaking Bad, and thought it was a cool way to go out", we already have enough justification to shore up infrastructure.
Speculating on the motive only serves to spread FUD about "far right extremists". That's really not something we need in today's political atmosphere. Let's investigate, sure, but until then, we don't need to know what it was too build more resilient infrastructure.
- lambda_obrien 6y agoThis is why journalism is dying, it's not fact based, they write to get eyeballs.
- millzlane 6y agoIt's in the commentary category. This isn't considered journalism.
- InitialLastName 6y agoThat people (for reasons both educational and presentational) can't tell the difference is why journalism is dying.
- millzlane 6y agoTouché.
- nickff 6y agoI think they might be trying to 'get ahead of the story', and write articles which are first, and may turn out to be right. This did not start with the internet (see the 1948 presidential election), but it does seem have gotten fairly extreme.
- rlt 6y ago> “far right extremists“ 5G and vaccine conspiracy theories are not a uniquely “far right” phenomenon. See Marin County, for example.
- rlt 6y agoExplain the downvotes, please? This is a well known fact. https://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-follow-the-usual-political-polarization-81001 https://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-fo... https://www.marinij.com/2019/05/15/marin-activists-rally-against-5g/ https://www.marinij.com/2019/05/15/marin-activists-rally-aga...