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I know more retired people (or people on disability/other state welfare) who watch Fox News religiously. It's always on in their house. They are uniformly obs

by s5300 5y ago

I know more retired people (or people on disability/other state welfare) who watch Fox News religiously. It's always on in their house. They are uniformly obsessed with the election and Donald Trump. Frightened. Paranoid. They truly believe that the election was stolen by hundreds of thousands of votes from dead people and South American immigrants who have never stepped foot even into the lower bounds of North American Mexico. That Trump is still, by the constitution, our sitting president. They truly believe that the majority of liberal leaning college students grow up to eat babies, have abortions for fun, and have regular satanic rituals in their basements (lol, it's funny because they can't afford houses with a basement) I don't particularly understand the urgency of the nature of your statement. There's definitely some urgency surrounding mine as uncalled for as it is though, as these people openly talk about wanting to massacre their opposition. Your side really just wants people to wear a mask and get a safe vaccination.

anotherthought1 5y ago
Oh you know those people, do you?
- s5300 5y ago
  Yeah, I'll send you my personal address if you verify your person in some way, and you'll be able to easily look at the county cable television statistics. And if you'd really like, I can give you my browsing history too. I frequent none of the sites you've mentioned, only really spend time on HN anymore. Can walk outside and take a timestamped picture of the flying Trump flags and every lawn with Trump 2024 poster signs as well if it would please you. Still some lock her up posters from years back around certain neighborhoods. Could even put a voice recorder at the local range for a day and give you some good footage of just how often and casually these people openly talk about wanting to murder "the libtards" You speak like you don't particularly have experience with small conservative U.S. towns. Everybody knows everybody, typically via church :) But this sort of flame bait doesn't exactly belong on HN.
  - throwawaylinux 5y ago
    Wow, you know more than 40 retired or on welfare people who believe majority of liberal leaning college students grow up to eat babies? Those people sound extremely ignorant and unhinged. I'm sorry you have to associate with people who spread such horrible misinformation and lies around. Those type of people are so divisive and hateful.
  - CamperBob2 5y ago
    I vouched for your earlier comment above, for what it's worth. Whoever flagged you may not like what you describe from your local point of view, but it's absolutely realistic. Just today, a pilot for a major airline reportedly called out "Let's go, Brandon!" on the PA. Many Americans have no earthly idea how much our elections are going to suck from now on. A malevolent personality cult has captured roughly a third of the electorate.
- api 5y ago
  I wish the parent were trolling.
- tasty_freeze 5y ago
  Are you taking into account that the person you are responding to has built a comment which is a mirror reflection of swayvil's comment. Do you have the same suspicions about that comment as well as this one?
strangeattractr 5y ago
This sounds like an absolutely hysterical reaction to someone pointing out the effects of watching CNN who have been pursuing a narrative intended to make people scared. As evidenced by polling in September that showed that Democrats significantly overestimated the danger of COVID. It's hilarious that people like you will underplay the issue of misinformation when it's disseminated about COVID when there has been no single bigger political issue in the world for the past 2 years. Restrictions put in place are not costless and have real impact on people's lives. As for your laundry list of crazed conspiracy theories, I have a hard time believing that Fox News has been publishing them. So they don't seem analogous to results of CNN coverage. They sound far more like the sort of thing that propagates from 4chan into social media. Regardless, they can't be that common as you have also said they intend to massacre their opponents. Seeing as we're 10 months into the Biden presidency you'd think we'd have started seeing these massacres by now. Maybe they're like the next Jan 6th the FBI is always warning against, always another month away. https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-distorting-covid-policies-and-behaviors/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-dis...
- s5300 5y ago
  Enjoy continuing to deny reality, I'm sure it brings you some bizarre form of joy in your life. Most of these people are waiting for orders by their "glorious leader" and grifting ilk. Do you just dissociate from when the last president had a speech telling them to walk across the lawn to the Capitol building and fight their way to overturn the "unfair election" that resulted in an armored police officer beaten to fucking death? JK, he must've gotten paid to be a crisis actor and die, right? Do you know what is required to beat somebody in body armor to death? Especially when they're surrounded by other cops...? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/when-do-we-get-use-guns-ongoing-danger-false-fraud-claims/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/when-do-w... _ https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-police-texas-lawsuits-29dcd0caf62ce6a0f36efbf24c0e31c2 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-police-tex... _ https://mobile.twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1429606435030061057 https://mobile.twitter.com/PDXzane/status/142960643503006105... https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/22/far-right-activists-counterprotesters-gather-in-portland/ https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/22/far-right-activists-c... _ https://mobile.twitter.com/mxtaliajane/status/1434307985359114245 https://mobile.twitter.com/mxtaliajane/status/14343079853591... https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1452838658705219584 https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/145283865870521... https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1434679743408840704 https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/143467974340884... https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1434679749184421889 https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/143467974918442... As for the rest of what you've mentioned, it will be addressed in a lower comment at a later time in which I'm not so tired. p.s. Notice that I made absolutely no comment on the coverage of COVID by CNN or anybody.
programmarchy 5y ago
Both your comment and the parents can be true at the same time. The extremes on both sides are insane. And I’m not saying the “center” is the best position either. There’s good ideas on both the left and the right, but they’re mixed in with lots of bad ideas, and those bad ideas are the ones that tend to have powerful lobbies leading to the shit sandwich we’re all munching on today.
- tata71 5y ago
  > And I’m not saying the “center” is the best position either. We shall see.

by s5300 5y ago

anotherthought1 5y ago

Oh you know those people, do you?

s5300 5y ago
Yeah, I'll send you my personal address if you verify your person in some way, and you'll be able to easily look at the county cable television statistics. And if you'd really like, I can give you my browsing history too. I frequent none of the sites you've mentioned, only really spend time on HN anymore. Can walk outside and take a timestamped picture of the flying Trump flags and every lawn with Trump 2024 poster signs as well if it would please you. Still some lock her up posters from years back around certain neighborhoods. Could even put a voice recorder at the local range for a day and give you some good footage of just how often and casually these people openly talk about wanting to murder "the libtards" You speak like you don't particularly have experience with small conservative U.S. towns. Everybody knows everybody, typically via church :) But this sort of flame bait doesn't exactly belong on HN.
- throwawaylinux 5y ago
  Wow, you know more than 40 retired or on welfare people who believe majority of liberal leaning college students grow up to eat babies? Those people sound extremely ignorant and unhinged. I'm sorry you have to associate with people who spread such horrible misinformation and lies around. Those type of people are so divisive and hateful.
- CamperBob2 5y ago
  I vouched for your earlier comment above, for what it's worth. Whoever flagged you may not like what you describe from your local point of view, but it's absolutely realistic. Just today, a pilot for a major airline reportedly called out "Let's go, Brandon!" on the PA. Many Americans have no earthly idea how much our elections are going to suck from now on. A malevolent personality cult has captured roughly a third of the electorate.
api 5y ago
I wish the parent were trolling.
tasty_freeze 5y ago
Are you taking into account that the person you are responding to has built a comment which is a mirror reflection of swayvil's comment. Do you have the same suspicions about that comment as well as this one?

strangeattractr 5y ago

This sounds like an absolutely hysterical reaction to someone pointing out the effects of watching CNN who have been pursuing a narrative intended to make people scared. As evidenced by polling in September that showed that Democrats significantly overestimated the danger of COVID. It's hilarious that people like you will underplay the issue of misinformation when it's disseminated about COVID when there has been no single bigger political issue in the world for the past 2 years. Restrictions put in place are not costless and have real impact on people's lives. As for your laundry list of crazed conspiracy theories, I have a hard time believing that Fox News has been publishing them. So they don't seem analogous to results of CNN coverage. They sound far more like the sort of thing that propagates from 4chan into social media. Regardless, they can't be that common as you have also said they intend to massacre their opponents. Seeing as we're 10 months into the Biden presidency you'd think we'd have started seeing these massacres by now. Maybe they're like the next Jan 6th the FBI is always warning against, always another month away. https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-distorting-covid-policies-and-behaviors/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/how-misinformation-is-dis...

s5300 5y ago
Enjoy continuing to deny reality, I'm sure it brings you some bizarre form of joy in your life. Most of these people are waiting for orders by their "glorious leader" and grifting ilk. Do you just dissociate from when the last president had a speech telling them to walk across the lawn to the Capitol building and fight their way to overturn the "unfair election" that resulted in an armored police officer beaten to fucking death? JK, he must've gotten paid to be a crisis actor and die, right? Do you know what is required to beat somebody in body armor to death? Especially when they're surrounded by other cops...? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/when-do-we-get-use-guns-ongoing-danger-false-fraud-claims/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/27/when-do-w... _ https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-police-texas-lawsuits-29dcd0caf62ce6a0f36efbf24c0e31c2 https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-joe-biden-police-tex... _ https://mobile.twitter.com/PDXzane/status/1429606435030061057 https://mobile.twitter.com/PDXzane/status/142960643503006105... https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/22/far-right-activists-counterprotesters-gather-in-portland/ https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/22/far-right-activists-c... _ https://mobile.twitter.com/mxtaliajane/status/1434307985359114245 https://mobile.twitter.com/mxtaliajane/status/14343079853591... https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1452838658705219584 https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/145283865870521... https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1434679743408840704 https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/143467974340884... https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/1434679749184421889 https://mobile.twitter.com/AlissaAzar/status/143467974918442... As for the rest of what you've mentioned, it will be addressed in a lower comment at a later time in which I'm not so tired. p.s. Notice that I made absolutely no comment on the coverage of COVID by CNN or anybody.

programmarchy 5y ago

Both your comment and the parents can be true at the same time. The extremes on both sides are insane. And I’m not saying the “center” is the best position either. There’s good ideas on both the left and the right, but they’re mixed in with lots of bad ideas, and those bad ideas are the ones that tend to have powerful lobbies leading to the shit sandwich we’re all munching on today.

tata71 5y ago
> And I’m not saying the “center” is the best position either. We shall see.