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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums3 years since the insurrection. Let's make one thing perfectly clear.
The United States government is not responsible for Ashlii Babbitt's death. You know who is 100% responsible for her death? Ashlii Babbitt. And the people that she chose to listen to over the course of her life. That's what the right does - they refuse to take responsibility for their own actions and blame everybody else when they fail.
You know who is responsible for her death? It's Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Sean Hannity, Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell, TPUSA, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Marjorie Greene, Lauren Boebert, the list goes on and on. Ultimately leading to Trump himself. If that's your only source of entertainment that's on you. Right wing extremist conspiracy theory propaganda is what got this country in the current mess that it's in. And you can see the damage that it's doing overseas too.
Your media diet says a lot about you. And it has an effect on everybody around you. If you watch nothing but Fox News 24 a day and start holding grudges against the government, that's your choice. You choose to consume this content. Yes, we can point fingers all we want at the people that produce this content, but we should also be watching and monitoring who consumes this content.
The bottom line is that misinformation kills. It's nothing to screw with. We saw that at work during COVID when nearly a million people voluntarily chose to sacrifice themselves because they listened to the bullshit being passed around social media by the likes of Sherri Tenpenny, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Trump himself and threatened to murder actual experts like Dr. Fauci who were telling the truth. Yes there's people out there who really did believe that COVID was caused by lizard people and that hyrdoxycholorquine and ivermectin were the only real cures, fuck the vaccine.
You know what would have prevented this? What would have prevented Trump and the insurrection? Education. But of course the right wing is doing everything they can to ensure that people aren't properly educated. They don't want a well educated populace that's capable of critical thinking. They want a population that's just dumb enough to push the buttons and not ask questions.
Which is why the choices of Ashlii Babbitt and the January 6th prisoners is solely on them. It's in the things they choose to read, watch and listen to. Misinformation kills. Extremist propaganda kills. It's done more damage to this country than Al Qaeda or the Taliban could ever dream of. Don't let yourself get "red pilled". It's bad for you.
underpants
(182,904 posts)Sorry but if she done watch Fox and listen to talk radio shed probably still be alive today. I understand about internet rabbit holes/personalities but skipping over talk radio is a mistake. Its part of the saturation.
Well said.
Initech
(100,104 posts)Church - Fox News - talk radio - social media. Lather, rinse repeat. Consider another brain fully scrubbed.
Coup participants often get shot.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)Delphinus
(11,841 posts)That message needs to be spread far and wide in very plain and simple language.
irisblue
(33,034 posts)Link to tweet
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