Driver plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.
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@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
She says she's going to sue Fox News...for reporting what she said in social media.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
She says she's going to sue Fox News...for reporting what she said in social media.
@george-k said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
She says she's going to sue Fox News...for reporting what she said in social media.
Feels like a Groucho quote...... I'll sue you for mentioning what I mentioned to you!
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@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
To what degree do we participate in that megaphone by sharing and discussing the juiciest stuff here?
@horace said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
To what degree do we participate in that megaphone by sharing and discussing the juiciest stuff here?
I mean, this is a relatively closed forum, so a bit... but it's not like we are retweeting it (or at least I'm not... I still think Twitter is a fad)
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@horace said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
To what degree do we participate in that megaphone by sharing and discussing the juiciest stuff here?
I mean, this is a relatively closed forum, so a bit... but it's not like we are retweeting it (or at least I'm not... I still think Twitter is a fad)
@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
I still think Twitter is a fad
Unless FAD is an acronym for something, I fear you're wrong.
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@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
She says she's going to sue Fox News...for reporting what she said in social media.
@george-k said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
She says she's going to sue Fox News...for reporting what she said in social media.
Well, she's
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@george-k said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
@89th said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Social media gives every moron a megaphone.
She says she's going to sue Fox News...for reporting what she said in social media.
Well, she's
firedresigned from her job...@lufins-dad said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Well, she's fired resigned from her job...
Which one, working for the DuPage County Democrats, or comedian wannabe?
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@lufins-dad said in Car plows through Christmas parade.:
Well, she's fired resigned from her job...
Which one, working for the DuPage County Democrats, or comedian wannabe?
@george-k DuPage Democrats.
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Police say there's no evidence that he was fleeing anything, and that his intention was to cause mayhem and death.
So the questions naturally arise:
- Is this a case of domestic terrorism?
- Since the alleged perp had posted about hating white people is this a racist attack?
- If #2 is right, then is it a hate crime?
- When will Lyin' Joe condemn it as he did Rittenhouse, rather than "waiting for all information to come in"?
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Police say there's no evidence that he was fleeing anything, and that his intention was to cause mayhem and death.
So the questions naturally arise:
- Is this a case of domestic terrorism?
- Since the alleged perp had posted about hating white people is this a racist attack?
- If #2 is right, then is it a hate crime?
- When will Lyin' Joe condemn it as he did Rittenhouse, rather than "waiting for all information to come in"?
@george-k said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Police say there's no evidence that he was fleeing anything, and that his intention was to cause mayhem and death.
So the questions naturally arise:
- Is this a case of domestic terrorism?
- Since the alleged perp had posted about hating white people is this a racist attack?
- If #2 is right, then is it a hate crime?
- When will Lyin' Joe condemn it as he did Rittenhouse, rather than "waiting for all information to come in"?
If #2 is correct, how soon before it disappears from the news cycle except for Fox?
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Saw an interview this morning with an off-duty EMT that was attending the parade. She was pretty pumped about getting to go, because for all previous parades, she was either driving an ambulance or riding a fire truck in the parade.
She was closer to the start line, so when she saw the red suv drive by, she thought it was an undercover or unmarked police vehicle responding to something, since it was driving with purpose. It was when she heard the screams that she knew something bad had happened. She was one of the first responders on the scene and said it was surreal, like something out of a movie...In her career, she had never seen anything like this level of traumatic injury and death.
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There was an air of hope and desperation to the original corporate media reports that he was fleeing from some other incident. Now their only choice is to memory hole this. It won’t be hard.
In the discussion I listened to recently between the two progressive white women on the NYT podcast, where the thesis was about the existential threat of white supremacy, one piece of data the two ladies were proud of was the tally of bodies attributable to either side. Antifa/BLM or white supremacists. Their tally for BLM was 2. For white supremacists, they were counting Oklahoma City among other incidents and the death count was much higher. I am sure they will manage to not count this incident as leftist terrorism.
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Visit the CNN mobile site and see how far you have to scroll to find this story. Hint: it’s under a story about the ethics of boiling lobsters
The Brad
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On CNN's main website, there's a story about the dancing grannies that got run over. Also a story called Analysis: there's nothing more scary in America than an angry white man. The two stories get roughly equal billing.
This is why sensationalism isn't as good an explanation for how corporate media reports its news, as tribalism is. They want clicks of course, but they appeal to tribalism foremost in that effort. A car running over a crowd is sensational, but it makes their intended audience feel badly about their tribe, so the sensational story is smothered.
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Visit the CNN mobile site and see how far you have to scroll to find this story. Hint: it’s under a story about the ethics of boiling lobsters
@lufins-dad said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Visit the CNN mobile site
Maybe don't?
Every time those guys get a hit makes them less likely to change.
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@lufins-dad said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Visit the CNN mobile site
Maybe don't?
Every time those guys get a hit makes them less likely to change.
@doctor-phibes said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
@lufins-dad said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Visit the CNN mobile site
Maybe don't?
Every time those guys get a hit makes them less likely to change.
It is an act of courage and intellectual curiosity to observe the culture one lives in.
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@doctor-phibes said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
@lufins-dad said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
Visit the CNN mobile site
Maybe don't?
Every time those guys get a hit makes them less likely to change.
It is an act of courage and intellectual curiosity to observe the culture one lives in.
@horace said in Car plows through Waukesha, WI Christmas parade.:
It is an act of courage and intellectual curiosity to observe the culture one lives in.
Riiiight. That's why everybody sits glued to their chairs watching shit on TV. They're heroes!
Edit - sorry, not meaning to go off on a tangent. This thing is just awful, it deserves decent coverage.
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The revolution may have begun? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/black-lives-matter-activist-suggests-waukesha-attack-linked-to-rittenhouse-verdict-it-sounds-like-the-revolution-has-started
Sounds like incitement to me…
