Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:58:08 -0500, bitrex wrote:

On 1/2/2025 8:53 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On 2/01/2025 10:24 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:

On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag
inthat his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are
trusting the legacy media. This is why it's so important to have
citizen journalists mobilised and fact-checking what's really going
on when these incidents occur. I don't suppose the rather
embarrassing presence of the flag would have been revealed otherwise.

>
For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments
were using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
>
Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
of terrorism from us.
>
So which is it?

 
No point in asking Cursitor Doom - he just looks for fatuous nonsense
and posts it here whenever he finds it.
 
 

Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they
see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit at the
wall and see what sticks.
 
Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et al
who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi are
like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand us!"

Indeed. Right-wing parties try to focus on issues that are of concern to
the voters. Left-wing parties focus on deciding which issues *should* be
of concern to voters.