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Everybody there has been fed bullshit by the media - talk radio, Fox News commentators, etc - for decades. They eat it up. Big chunks of the media decided a lo

Everybody there has been fed bullshit by the media - talk radio, Fox News commentators, etc - for decades. They eat it up. Big chunks of the media decided a long time ago that they could make money by just pandering to angry people, and here we are.

ethbr0 6y ago
> Big chunks of the media decided a long time ago that they could make money by just pandering to angry people And then social media decided to cut out the cost of producing content, and just put angry people in a cage together.
jandrese 6y ago
In the news it turns out that lies are more profitable than the truth, and the market has spoken.
codingprograms 6y ago
The left is just as guilty
- cweagans 6y ago
  "the left" didn't just storm the capitol because of a conspiracy theory.
  - A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
    You are right. Both 'sides',however, were incited to act on emotion.
  - thu2111 6y ago
    "The left" has been storming Portland, Seattle and many other places instead, for most of 2020, based on the notion that America is filled with white supremacists and the police are systemically racist. Or put another way, because they theorise that white police are involved in an enormous, coast-to-coast conspiracy against black people. Whether you agree with that belief or not (there was one forlorn WSJ article at the start of all that showing that the data doesn't support it), it is objectively a conspiracy theory in the sense that it posits a conspiracy. And it has led to people repeatedly storming and smashing up not only federal buildings but many others.
    - Falling3 6y ago
      > Or put another way, because they theorise that white police are involved in an enormous, coast-to-coast conspiracy against black people That is a blatant straw-man. The U.S. has a violent, racist history - particularly it's police force. There is no reason a continuation of violence and racism would require a conspiracy.
      - thu2111 6y ago
        There are some good data analyses showing that the US police isn't racist. The belief that it is gets repeated so much, and journalists are so loathe to investigate it, that the claims come to define reality. But it's not actually true.

ethbr0 6y ago

> Big chunks of the media decided a long time ago that they could make money by just pandering to angry people And then social media decided to cut out the cost of producing content, and just put angry people in a cage together.

jandrese 6y ago

In the news it turns out that lies are more profitable than the truth, and the market has spoken.

codingprograms 6y ago

The left is just as guilty

cweagans 6y ago
"the left" didn't just storm the capitol because of a conspiracy theory.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 6y ago
  You are right. Both 'sides',however, were incited to act on emotion.
- thu2111 6y ago
  "The left" has been storming Portland, Seattle and many other places instead, for most of 2020, based on the notion that America is filled with white supremacists and the police are systemically racist. Or put another way, because they theorise that white police are involved in an enormous, coast-to-coast conspiracy against black people. Whether you agree with that belief or not (there was one forlorn WSJ article at the start of all that showing that the data doesn't support it), it is objectively a conspiracy theory in the sense that it posits a conspiracy. And it has led to people repeatedly storming and smashing up not only federal buildings but many others.
  - Falling3 6y ago
    > Or put another way, because they theorise that white police are involved in an enormous, coast-to-coast conspiracy against black people That is a blatant straw-man. The U.S. has a violent, racist history - particularly it's police force. There is no reason a continuation of violence and racism would require a conspiracy.
    - thu2111 6y ago
      There are some good data analyses showing that the US police isn't racist. The belief that it is gets repeated so much, and journalists are so loathe to investigate it, that the claims come to define reality. But it's not actually true.