The media will twist pics, words, situations so, that they fit the best way to sell papers. Or advertisments.
I don't want to go on what is portrayed there but am willing to scout through info to see what can be true.
Enough with the understanding it's-all-been-so-hard and how-did-the-nice-boy-next-door-come-to-this.
Map out what's a real danger and keep an eye on it.
Yeah. No one in the US ever mentions the White Supremacy training camps, or the so called "militia' compounds anymore- they don't sell advertising these days. No one talks that many "gang" organizations in the US are better funded and better organized than this pseudo organization Fox News coined as ISIS.
Now pray on the fat dumb and happy american fear of "the terrorists" and that SELLS.
50 years ago it was the "communists". Before that, the "Fascists". Before that, the Republicans. Before that, The Confederates. Before that, The British.
Anyone see a pattern here?
The real issue is that the bulk of Americans take everything they see and hear on mass media and the interwebs as truth. The believe every single book and drag rag.
No one thinks objectively for themselves anymore. No one bothers to challenge others to back up their claims with FACT. Opinion, Opinion, Opinion. Little or no fact. Sketchy evidence. Communications filled with so many fallacies an English major would have an embolism.
f*ck-all, most Americans don't even know what a fact is. And, even if they did, they wouldn't know what to do with them.
I guess what I am getting at gang, is this:
Many of you feel strongly about this topic, but if you go through and read all these posts in this thread objectively, we sound just like "them".
That scares me most.
