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0 pointstropo7y ago0 comments

I don't know why you'd characterize that shooter as "the right". He really hated Trump. He was a socialist.

There are a lot of these cases, where a violent person is unjustly tagged as "the right".

When someone can't be crammed into that mold, they are dropped from the news. A prime example is the youtube office shooter, who was a female muslim immigrant. As soon as the demographics became clear, the news dropped the story like a hot potato.

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ModernMech7y ago· 2 in thread

Whether or not he hated Trump, he believed that Soros was funding a migrant caravan of invaders, a lie that both Trump and Fox News was pushing constantly, and continued to push even after the shooting. He didn't get those ideas from out of thin air. He got them from the right wing party establishment.

tropoOP7y ago

So, I'm curious, who exactly do you think is funding them?

That trip is not free.

Soros certainly has a history of funding exactly that sort of thing. For example, he paid to have boats pick people up right off the coast of Libya and take them to Italy. It would not be the slightest bit surprising for Soros to fund a mob of thousands to invade the USA.

If not Soros, then who? (and who paid that group, and who paid the payers... and does it not lead back to Soros?)

mturmon7y ago

"If not Soros, then who?"

This sounds like if one cannot pinpoint the supposed funder (and prove that they act alone), then you'll feel free to assume it is Soros? This is nonsense.

hedvig7y ago· 1 in thread

I mean, if she shot up youtube because she got worked up by another alt-right 4chan conspiracy theory, then you'd have a point. But she wasn't, she was upset youtube wasn't paying her enough.

tropoOP7y ago

The point is that any violent person unable to be portrayed as "the right" is quickly dropped by the news. The shooting was on the way to being the big news story of the month... and then suddenly dropped out of the news entirely. This creates a bias in the news: all the memorable violent people are on the right because the non-right ones are dropped from news coverage.

Basically, the news wants an attacker who looks like their stereotype of an NRA member and/or Trump supporter. Anybody else is not deemed newsworthy.

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