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The outrage might be a little over the top, but the sentiment is valid. Click baity shit like this is why no one pays attention to the actual outages going on.
If people are constantly seeing articles like 'Trump didn't say he would rule out pushing toddlers into wood chippers to combat climate change' and the article goes on to talk about how he was asked about what he had for breakfast, then outrage is a little hard to keep up. I actually think that's the worst/best tactic trump has used... Keep the outage going so steadily that people are worn out when the real stuff is out in the headlines.
This sounds a little to close to “when they go low, we go high”. If the mainstream media had been willing to vilify Trump back in 2016 (even with lies of omission and sensational headlines), maybe he would have never gotten near the GOPedo nomination. Instead we have been fed a steady diet of civility and normalization.
Not even close, there are so many things to vilify and mock him for, this is more like diluting the pool.
If someone does 10 shitty things, you don't make up 100 other weaker accusations that can be easily dismissed or disproven. Its like someone kills 10 people and someone starts making up dumb little lies about them shoplifting and tripping old ladies and kicking 100 puppies instead of just the one they actually kicked. If a lot of what you're hearing about the guy is a bunch of lies and half truths, it's a whole lot easier for him to convince you that the 'killing 10 people' is just a bunch of exaggerations too.
I agree with your point for this particular story, but *my *point stands even if it was a side-track from this story. I am not saying that every story about Trump back in 2016 should have been lies or "toddlers in to wood chippers" clickbait. The media failed us hard and is mainly responsible for Trump through their grandstanding and normalizing of him back in early 2016 and every day since then. If they had done their job, there wouldn't have been Trump the nominee, let alone President Trump. Maybe there would have been some other cryptofascist GOPedophile by now, but Rubio, Bush, Kasich, Cruz, etc. would have been orders of magnitude better than Trump...and human filth like Musk, Miller, and Bannon would have never gotten near the presidency.
Yeah, i think we probably agree on most things in that direction. My view is that early on they failed to focus on the glaring, obvious issues and instead used the ridiculousness of him as candidate as click-bait for views, and then later continued to focus on and fall for every misdirection he and his cloud of followers dropped, both intentionally and unintentionally. In my view they ended up hiding all the legitimate issues in a smokescreen of click-bait and likely doomed us to either Armageddon or who knows how long a period of cleanup or simply slow decline.
This 'his kid is going to avoid the draft' angle, when not only has a draft not been brought up, but also that he simply falls into the range of 'all tall kids that would be exempt' is just the latest is a series of stories obviously relying on a false start just to get people riled up if they read just the headline.
Uhh it was completely over the top rant. Thank God we have people willing to defend this level of hostility. Have you ever thought of joining the State Department?
Oh yes, and thank God we are talking about a completely made up scenario of Barron Trump getting drafted instead of unimportant things like the war itself or the Epstein files. Wouldn't want pesky things like that getting in the way of manufactured outrage for dumb shits like you to lap up.
Oh I know! Let's follow it up with an article about how MAGA is totally about to turn on Trump! Or maybe an AI generated image of Trump yelling at Hegseth? Oh I bet he's big mad about that one! Who cares about reality as long as it sounds good and reinforces the pathetic-ass beliefs of the idiotic masses?!
I am sure you give all this outrage to conservative leaning posts and this isn't just a veiled attack on perceived ideological differences. Because frankly, I am not buying it and you are either an epic asshole or a conservative troll. Cheers!
Valid criticism of stupidity that goes against the hive mind message? Must be a conservative! Definitely not someone who's fed up with people, supposedly against misinformation, continuously falling for the dumbest shit imaginable!
Yeah, you act like a raging fucking idiot conservative. Congrats!
How? Please spell it out. And remember, calling out idiots is not a conservative trait. Getting upset at idiots is not a conservative trait. Blindly accusing people who don't say things you like of being conservative because you just can't fathom the possibility of someone not blindly believing and supporting fake bullshit IS a trait of a fucking idiot.
Case in point, acting like an asshole must be a badge of honor or something for you. I will politely ask you to get bent.
And I will politely ask you to fuck off the internet entirely until you can recognize fiction from reality. Your kind of stupidity is what's ruining everything.
He is an asshole, an absolute asshole! He comes onto Lemmy screaming with rage, everyone's stupid and everyone's wrong. He is an asshole, an absolute asshole ohh we oh the world's biggest asshole.
I would rather be a correct asshole than a polite idiot. You aren't upset I'm an asshole, you're upset because I called out the idiocy of people like you falling for this post.
Stupidity is a BAD trait. It is BAD to be stupid. If you fall for obvious misinformation, it is because you have acted stupidly, that is a BAD thing. People deserve to call you out on it because you should feel BAD for being stupid. Our society used to do this regularly and idiots learned to shut their fucking mouths and be ashamed of their stupidity.
Who we talking about here? The leftists jerking off in a circle over identity politics or conservatives jerking off in a circle over identity politics?