2016 U.S. Presidential Elections: The Circus Is In Full Swing

[eddiemccandless]

How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets

Weak organization forced right-wing agitators to rely on video and social media. Now they have a machine to spread a narrative of lawless rioting.

www.technologyreview.com

^ I feel that this pretty much sums it up.

Specifically on antifa:

Who Are Antifa, and Are They a Threat?

On May 31, President Trump announced he would designate Antifa as a terrorist organization. Antifa refers to a decentralized network of far-left militants that oppose fascists and racists, and CSIS data shows Antifa pose a relatively small threat in the United States.

www.csis.org

Once more, the narrative of antifa burning down the country is propaganda. It's easy for everyone to fall for confirmation bias, but the numbers don't lie and math is not an opinion.

 

[Doctor_Noob]

Antifa is not a national organization in the US. There is local branches of it but there is no head group controlling all the local groups so they don't really hold any real power.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets

Weak organization forced right-wing agitators to rely on video and social media. Now they have a machine to spread a narrative of lawless rioting.

www.technologyreview.com

^ I feel that this pretty much sums it up.

I remember when the London Riots happened and there was one night where a few shops got looted. It was, cynically speaking, a couple of weeks worth of regular crime condensed into a single 6-12 hour period. A guy I knew got arrested, one shop in my town got its windows smashed, that was about it. But outside London people went hysterical about it. The further you got from the actual event, the more people sensationalised it and acted like the city was under siege or something, and seemed almost disappointed to hear that it wasn't nearly as bad as they thought it was. A couple of weeks after the riots I was in California and people were like "IS LONDON SAFE??? I HEARD THEY WERE BLOWIN' UP THE DAMN PLACE!!"

I feel the same way about terrorism. The terrorist attacks in the UK in the last decade (with the exception of the Ariana Grande bomb) have amounted to a handful of knife murders. People in London are almost indifferent to them. More people have been murdered on my road in that period than there have been terror attacks, but violence in a certain context is given literally millions of times more attention. It's bizarre. It's as if people in more sheltered areas have a salacious appetite for urban violence.

 

[Adorno]

Conservative hoaxers face charges over false voter robocalls

Two conservative operatives were charged Thursday in connection with false robocalls that aimed to dissuade Black residents in Detroit and other Democratic-leaning U...

apnews.com

The calls falsely warned residents in majority-Black Detroit and cities in at least four other states that if they vote by mail in the Nov. 3 election they could be subjected to arrest, debt collection and forced vaccination ...

These guys are pretty 'interesting'

Last month, the Washington Post said it was duped into falsely reporting that FBI agents had conducted a raid at Burkman’s home in Arlington, Virginia, when it was actually a staged event featuring actors.

 

[Lord Brutus]

Well, it's official. Trump, who has been prominent without a mask, has tested positive for COVID-19. May the virus do its business and rid us of this fool.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Maybe we are living in the best timeline after all.

 

[Captain Obvious]

Just found this thread - not surprised at all. Although, when people start speaking positively of the potential death of someone, perhaps it should be a sign things have gone a bit too far.

inb4 the replies.......

 

[Lord Brutus]

If he were a halfway decent human and not the biggest liar on the face of the planet plus a Fascist, maybe I'd feel differently.

 

[Captain Obvious]

"plus a Fascist" LOL

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

Just found this thread - not surprised at all. Although, when people start speaking positively of the potential death of someone, perhaps it should be a sign things have gone a bit too far.

inb4 the replies.......

When someone, indirectly or directly, is in a position where they have lead to deaths and misery on a national scale, it is perfectly reasonable to wish them dead in order to stop the suffering. I don't know why I should have to extend even the minimum of basic dignity to someone who has caused so much damage, when none of his victims got the same fawning.

For the record I hope Biden dies too.

"plus a Fascist" LOL

By any meaningful definition trump is a fascist. So are most of the republican populists. Just because they don't have concentration camps (oh wait they do lol) or send police to kill protestors (oh wait) or talk about Blood and Soil (oh crap) or use dogwhistles as a call for violence (oh) or reject intellectualism (fugg) or rant about the greatness of the nation in the past (shidd) or rant about plots to destroy the nation from within (dang it) or have a cult of The Soldier (bloody hell this is hard) or appeal to terrified bourgeois people (i give up), doesn't mean they aren't Fascists.

 

[Cyborg Eastern European]

Well, the core part was already spelled out by now, so no point repeating it with less than half the eloquence...

Only sad part in this mess is we don't get to see Donnie hanging upside-down off a gas station.
And even that would've been a mixed bag of salty baggage anyhow.

 

[Lord Brutus]

"plus a Fascist" LOL

Learn the lessons of history before you comment.

 

[Doctor_Noob]

Real question is why do people kill each other ? closest I came to a human potentially killing me was someone holding a knife on me on the street "asking" for my money. But one of second cousins once had a machine gun fired at his house and luckily no one died but he got shot. They didn't even know each other so what the **** is wrong with this country.

 

[Lord Brutus]

Real question is why do people kill each other ? closest I came to a human potentially killing me was someone holding a knife on me on the street "asking" for my money. But one of second cousins once had a machine gun fired at his house and luckily no one died but he got shot. They didn't even know each other so what the **** is wrong with this country.

Real question is why are you derailing this topic?

 

[Doctor_Noob]

@Lord Brutus just doing my thing, but someone wad talking about Violence above in London probably should of replied to him.

 

[Lord Brutus]

@Lord Brutus just doing my thing, but someone wad talking about Violence above in London probably should of replied to him.

He was talking about my reference to Trump's Fascism. Unless it was Trump who personally shot you the issues have nothing in common.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

He was referring to another post I made which is further up.

 

[Lord Brutus]

He was referring to another post I made which is further up.

I know that. But he doesn't.

 

[Adorno]

If Trump dies he'll just deny it.

Reporter: But, mr. president, you can't win the election. You're dead.
Trump's ghost: Says who?
Reporter: Uhm, the coroner.
Trump's ghost: That snitching coroner can't be trusted. People have told me!
Reporter: Mr. president, you have to go back to your grave now.
Trump's ghost: What grave? Fake news!

 

[Doctor_Noob]

Nice little BBC article about the debates https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54350219