Jussie Smollett's trial
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It's just about the messaging impact. It actually doesn't matter too much if they're wrong, as long as the correct impression is left through the "narrative outrage->time->contradictory facts->memory hole" process. The indelible mark is the outrage, that is what leaves the impression on the masses. The white supremacists keeping everybody else down is the memory and the emotional truth. Thank your local progressive white women and feminized men, out to save the fucking world. Idiots.
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It's just about the messaging impact. It actually doesn't matter too much if they're wrong, as long as the correct impression is left through the "narrative outrage->time->contradictory facts->memory hole" process. The indelible mark is the outrage, that is what leaves the impression on the masses. The white supremacists keeping everybody else down is the memory and the emotional truth. Thank your local progressive white women and feminized men, out to save the fucking world. Idiots.
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@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
I was only joking
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Forgive me, but Iâd rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, heâs actually done America a great service.
He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.
They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasnât) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasnât) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?
Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate anotherâs rights? Yes, of course.
Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.
But they didnât care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didnât care if he was lying. They werenât worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.
They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.
And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, theyâd much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.
"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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Forgive me, but Iâd rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, heâs actually done America a great service.
He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.
They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasnât) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasnât) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?
Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate anotherâs rights? Yes, of course.
Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.
But they didnât care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didnât care if he was lying. They werenât worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.
They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.
And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, theyâd much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.
@george-k said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
Forgive me, but Iâd rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, heâs actually done America a great service.
He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.
They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasnât) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasnât) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?
Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate anotherâs rights? Yes, of course.
Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.
But they didnât care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didnât care if he was lying. They werenât worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.
They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.
And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, theyâd much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.
Yep, another person who gets it.
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@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may be pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
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@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may be pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
Youâd think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about â young people todayâŚâ
I was only joking
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@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
Youâd think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about â young people todayâŚâ
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
Youâd think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about â young people todayâŚâ
Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.
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@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
Youâd think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about â young people todayâŚâ
Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.
@aqua-letifer said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@renauda said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:
feminized men
I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier
You may pretty sure, but I am certain he is.
Youâd think the people putting together these memes would at least learn a little history before they went off on their predictable pontifications about â young people todayâŚâ
Some folks share memes as pithy, semi-humorous commentary. Some folks, because that's the best they can do.
The other great irony is that the people generating the memes had zero involvement with WW2, but frequently had plenty of involvement in raising the generation of people that they're now complaining so much about.
Also, the same people have been known to say that wearing a mask is fascism. Yeah, it's almost exactly like being sent to a death camp. Except without the camp. Or the death.
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Seen on Twitter: "When conservatives are wrong, that's the story. When liberals are wrong, how conservatives react is the story.
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City of Chicago: Pay up!
The investigation into Jussie Smollett's reported hate crime in 2019 cost the city of Chicago a pretty penny.
At the time, the actor reported to police that he was attacked by two men because of his identity as a gay Black man. On Thursday, he was found guilty of lying to police and staging the attack as a hoax.
After the "Empire" alum reported the attack, Chicago police launched an investigation into the incident that ultimately cost $130,000.
The massive price tag came from a thorough, 3,000-hour investigation that, in part, saw authorities comb through hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, none of which captured an attack on the actor.
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