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You have my sincerest sympathies, I can see the onslaught of corporate media coverage and social media engagement has exhausted you to the point where you aren'
by strangeattractr 5y ago
You have my sincerest sympathies, I can see the onslaught of corporate media coverage and social media engagement has exhausted you to the point where you aren't even able to muster a scintilla of scepticism anymore. Nobody was beaten to death on Jan 6th, Brian Sicknick died of "natural causes". NYT, Wapo etc have retracted this misinformation but as you can see the horse has bolted on that front [1][2].
You respond to a post about CNN, question the 'urgency' of the criticism and then claim that you've made 'no comment' about CNN coverage. Read your own post, you directly claim it is less important than your perceived threat of right wing extremism. The fact that you replied this way shows how mired you are in partisan politics. The opposite to CNN isn't Fox News.
A few tweets isn't going to change my mind about the extent of the threat. Trump was able to rustle up around 3000 crazy people to breach the Capitol in a nation of 300+ million. I would wager Al Gore would have been able to get people to do this if he was as deranged as Trump. It really tells us nothing. As for your tweets showing violence at the Olympia protest, am I supposed to believe this is representative? Because if I am then I'd have to conclude far left extremism is the greater threat considering a counter-protestor shot someone. To be clear, I am not denying the existence of extremists I am questioning whether they are as numerous as journalists are trying to convince you they are.
You can ridicule people for raising questions about the FBI's involvement in Jan 6th all you want but the only people to blame for this are the FBI themselves. They have shown themselves perfectly willing to celebrate foiling plots that they essentially created whether it was after 9/11 or as recently as the Whitmer 'assassination plot' which was 50% FBI agents and organised at an FBI funded event [3]. Everyone should treat what the CIA, NSA and FBI say with extreme scepticism, regardless of your politics.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/who-died-in-capitol-building-attack.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/who-died-in-capitol-bu...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brian-sicknick-death-strokes/2021/04/19/36d2d310-617e-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/brian-sic...
[3] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-k...
- s5300 5y ago> You have my sincerest sympathies, I can see the onslaught of corporate media coverage and social media engagement has exhausted you to the point where you aren't even able to muster a scintilla of scepticism anymore. lol > Everyone should treat what the CIA, NSA and FBI say with extreme scepticism, regardless of your politics. Once again, the fact you make the presumption that any HN user doesn't already do this to the extreme is hilarious. lol @ the rest of your rambling in general Go touch grass and please get a credible education, it will help you in life.
- strangeattractr 5y agoI can't believe what a cliche you are. You make grand claims of right wing extremist threats from people gripped by misinformation. Post a handful of tweets and Wapo articles as evidence then trumpet myths about people being beaten to death on Jan 6th. You are the thing you're railing against. You spread lies and then resort to the most generic ad hom questioning my education and telling me to touch grass. Maybe get off Twitter and meet some people in the real world, you might find most of the country isn't trying to kill you as you claim.