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Weird comparison given the events aren’t all that similar. We know COVID transmission risk is much higher when people are indoors. The Capitol riot involved lar

Weird comparison given the events aren’t all that similar. We know COVID transmission risk is much higher when people are indoors. The Capitol riot involved large numbers of people being indoors, the BLM protests mostly did not. The only reason to compare coverage of the BLM marches and Capitol riot is, ironically, in service of propaganda that seeks to portray both events two sides of the same coin. Why not compare the Capitol riot and, I dunno, coverage of an indoor sport event? It would be a more accurate comparison but it wouldn’t serve a partisan political purpose, so it’s not done. And “release at the same time” is just kind of funny as accusations go: an event occurred. Multiple news organisations wrote it about it shortly afterwards? Some even publishing stories on the same day? How very, very suspicious.

redis_mlc 5y ago
Both the Capitol protest and antifa/BLM riots involved Democrat politicians shirking their sworn duty to provide security and policing. The 2 people in charge of adding Capitol policing were the House Manager and Nancy Pelosi. Note Pelosi's Jan. 6 committee doesn't want to talk about that - she cherry-picked Republian members who wouldn't demand that. Trump offered the National Guard to the Democrat cities that were burned, but mayors refused. The antifa/BLM riots stopped just before the Presidential election, since the Democratic Party knew it was hurting their support.
- afavour 5y ago
  You’re proving my point. This is all partisan political nonsense, not evidence of some coordinated media narrative.
  - redis_mlc 5y ago
    You're not too bright, so I'll spell it out for you: 1) Pelosi recently demanded on video that the MSM "sell the budget" - ie. demanding coordination from the media. 2) cnn.com/WaPo has retracted most of their stories about Trump. msnbc carried the same stories, but I haven't seen any retractions. How do you print the same false stories across 3 outlets without a coordinated media narrative?

redis_mlc 5y ago

Both the Capitol protest and antifa/BLM riots involved Democrat politicians shirking their sworn duty to provide security and policing. The 2 people in charge of adding Capitol policing were the House Manager and Nancy Pelosi. Note Pelosi's Jan. 6 committee doesn't want to talk about that - she cherry-picked Republian members who wouldn't demand that. Trump offered the National Guard to the Democrat cities that were burned, but mayors refused. The antifa/BLM riots stopped just before the Presidential election, since the Democratic Party knew it was hurting their support.

afavour 5y ago
You’re proving my point. This is all partisan political nonsense, not evidence of some coordinated media narrative.
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  You're not too bright, so I'll spell it out for you: 1) Pelosi recently demanded on video that the MSM "sell the budget" - ie. demanding coordination from the media. 2) cnn.com/WaPo has retracted most of their stories about Trump. msnbc carried the same stories, but I haven't seen any retractions. How do you print the same false stories across 3 outlets without a coordinated media narrative?