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Let's talk about the attack in New York.
Six Arrested After Explosive Devices Tossed Near Mamdani’s Home (Bloomberg)
6 arrested after homemade explosive devices at Gracie Mansion protest send people running for cover (New York Post)
This certainly seems concerning... wait... it looks like I got the news wrong. Let's check in with the newspaper of record:
Smoking Jars of Metal and Fuses Thrown at Protest Near Mayor’s House
This was no bomb. It was just a smoking jar of metal and fuses. A stunning and brave counterprotestor who just happened to have a smoking jar of metal and fuses took took the righteous and antiracist action of standing up to nazism by throwing that smoking jar of metal and fuses right into the middle of a crowd. This totally clears things up.
Wait... no.. it looks like that's not quite right. It was a bomb.
I thought the news media couldn't get worse than "firey but mostly peaceful protests." But somehow they've managed to reach a new low. At least with the "mostly peaceful" protests it's technically true. I'm sure >51% of the protests that day were peaceful and a minority set the place ablaze. But this is a clear cut case where a terrorist literally threw a bomb into a crowd, and the NYT rushes to blame the victims for causing unrest and smear them as "vile white supremacists"
For another 'fun' example:
... Herrera is an extremely well-known guntuber, and, to spoil the punchline, the clip is from an Unsubscribed episode where Herrera spends almost as much time making fun of Hitler as talking guns. The segment is literally titled "Hitler was a bad writer".
There's things you could say here. They're lying, they know they're lying, they know anyone who cares is lying, and they probably don't even think that their audience is this stupid and gullible so much as just to lazy to care about the full text of what they wrote. One could spend a ton of effort to show how that this guy isn't evil, or that this isn't anywhere near the same organization's behavior in an easier case, but that's missing the point: yes, the news media is hilariously biased, where have you been the last few decades. In any reasonable set of laws, this could be defamatory, but the problem isn't the statutes or the line between opinion and slander, when judges can move it back and forth depending on whether they like the victim.
It's that this is what people want. Eat at Arbies!
Gotta love that passive voice "has drawn scrutiny".
My father had a copy of Mein Kampf also. I tried to read it at one point, found it unreadable, didn't get very far. But how could you not mention the headline calling him an "An Apparent Neo-Nazi"?
Fortunately for Herrera, I'd guess approximately zero of his potential voters read "Rolling Stone".
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