Three years after the January 6 attack, propaganda about the insurrection is poisoning the American public
The U.S. will mark the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Saturday, a milestone that will confer upon the reality-dwelling citizenry a grim reminder of the potency of propaganda and how quickly it can warp perception when introduced into the public square.
Just three years ago, most of the country watched with dismay and horror as a violent MAGA mob beat back authorities and stormed the country’s citadel of democracy. The Donald Trump-incited crush of disillusioned rioters, fueled by a stream of fantastical lies, believed that the 2020 election had been stolen by sinister forces working to undermine the democratic election.
Of course, not only was their belief flatly incorrect, but evidence later emerged indicating that it was Trump who, in fact, had tried to subvert democracy.
Facts, however, have little bearing on the sentiment inside the Republican Party, which has been fed a steady diet of lies and half-truths by Fox News and the rest of the sprawling right-wing media machine. To wit, the false notion that Joe Biden nefariously stole the 2020 election is now widely shared inside the GOP. A CNN poll conducted over the summer found that nearly 70% of Republicans believe Biden’s win was not legitimate, a number that has continued to tick up.
Just 3 years after the January 6 attack, the "harm reduction" candidate is aiding (rushing weapons to, no less) an active genocide, using multiple aircraft carrier groups to fend off the second-poorest country in the middle east, because they are attempting ( and succeeding at) a blockade on the genociders, demanding a ceasefire.
Yeah I'd say there's a lot of propaganda about January 6 if that's where your attention is.
Today on, actual leftist, or right wing Poe's law troll: will voting for Trump end Israeli occupation of Gaza? Call 1800-OBV-IOUS to share your thoughts
I'm not voting for Trump, I'm writing in Hamas. Honestly incredible that democrats feel like they're entitled to my vote.
You are writing in an organization which openly calls for the extermination of Jewish people?
The end to the Jewish settler-ethnostate. They can participate in representative democracy with the rest of the Palestinians. Or are you trying to imply that anti-zionism is antisemitism?
You're literally trying to guilt trip me into voting for the person supporting an actual genocide
Secular representative democracy, right?
Would be an improvement over the settler ethnostates apartheid government.
Ah perfect, because that was the status quo of the Palestine Mandate - to govern Palestine via a bicameral legislature comprised of separate Muslim and Jewish houses. And I assume you know which side accepted this proposal and which side violently rejected it?
Yeah, because they were rejecting the settler-colony. How about zero settler states and 1 state for everyone that isn't an ethnostate?
This was pre-Israel. Partition was only considered because Arab Palestinians refused secular democracy. But as a student of history, you knew.that already.
Not sure what you're trying to accomplish here, is your position that ethnostates are good, or that US taxpayers are not complicit in genocide?
My point is that you claim to want secular democracy, and then you hold a double standard when it comes to Palestinian Arabs explicitly rejecting your solution. If you can convince Hamas to agree to secular unification then they will give you the Nobel Peace prize every day for the next 100 years. But this is not some big brain moment. Democratic unification has been tried. Democratic partition has been tried.
Sounds like you've talked yourself into supporting genocide. I support the people fighting to end the genocide with any means at their disposal.
Just imagine that the republican agenda will keep the things as they are regardless of whoever is in power.
So yeah the president is wrong in this one, but the gop is wrong in this one and in almost everything they do.
I don't view the democrats as credible actors for improving things. Joe Biden still owes me $600 ffs.
Everything shitty that got started under Trump, finished under Biden. They're literally cutting a deal with republicans over the border to get weapons to a genocide faster.
Lol, just remember who had the majority of the house. Basically you are complaining for something that the republican party has thr majority of power to stop and yet they don't do it. Funny if you ask me.
I don't fucking care about which fucking rightwing party had which percentage of the house, it's not like any of them are actually trying to get anything done besides writing fat checks to weapons manufacturers. If we can have an election and then the opposite of the election happens in policy it sounds like we have a pretty worthless fucking democracy and nothing worth defending.
Biden could simply not arm the apartheid ethnostate which is ethnically cleansing Palestine.
Instead he's sending aircraft carrier groups to prevent Yemen from attempting to apply pressure for a ceasefire by blockading.
Sure bud, but the bOtH sIdEs argument is not good at all.
But tell me, under the other parry, would things be different?
Only the rhetoric would be different, the policy outcomes would be the same. I have a lot of negative emotions associated with having a bunch of soulless monsters pretending like they're somehow advancing the cause of LGBT rights by dumping weapons on a genocidal apartheid government.
Again the bOtH sIdEs argument is really bad in this case, because you know, I don't see one side removing rights of a sector of the population.
The hypocrisy here is the fact that many conservatives try to pass the blame 100% to the party in power even if the other party boycots them.
This sentence makes no sense, please do better.
The democrats are literally helping in the removal of rights of an entire fucking population what the fuck are you talking about.
Nah, they don't. The republican party is the one who does that, just look at the abortion rights. You just don't have to lie like that.
They're literally deploying multiple aircraft carrier groups to keep Yemen from blockading Israel, demanding a ceasefire- and end to the genocide. Biden is the one keeping this genocide going, and like it or not, the people Israel is killing are losing their human rights- all of them.
Democrats are cutting a deal with the republicans to give them what they want on the border so they can get more weapons to Israel faster. I don't see how these aren't just two right wing parties.
Sure bud, the democrats are the only ones.
Nah, biden only wants the status quo, is an idiot for doing that, but this is a matter that also the republicans are helping, just ask yourself why they didn't stop the sell of weapons to israel? they didn't.
Lol, you are just insane, anyway the republicans are the ones that give everything to keep israel armed, so don't lie.
The status quo is literally continuing to support genocide as normal. The republicans are also disgusting war criminals, however they're not pretending to be on my side and trying to guilt me into supporting them.
Why should I ever support democrats if literally supporting a genocide is a political football to them.
If this is going to happen regardless of if the republicans or democrats win, why the fuck are we pretending this is a democracy. If we can't democratically decide to stop helping the fucking genocide it stands to reason that the 'democracy' is worthless.
Oh the poor Houthi rebels doing Iran’s bidding and attacking international commerce, they’re such victims. Poor guys are going to be red mist soon. Total bummer, said literally no one except shills.
Heroic Yemeni military acting on the Responsibility to Protect, doing whatever is in its power to stop the ongoing genocide. Every country should be doing what Yemen is doing and demand a ceasefire in Gaza.
US global legitimacy is going down the fucking toilet and you have nobody but yourselves to thank for it.