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Three years after the January 6 attack, propaganda about the insurrection is poisoning the American public (www.cnn.com)

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The U.S. will mark the anniversary of the January 6 insurrection on Saturday, a milestone that will confer upon the reality-dwelling citizenry a grim reminder of the potency of propaganda and how quickly it can warp perception when introduced into the public square.

Just three years ago, most of the country watched with dismay and horror as a violent MAGA mob beat back authorities and stormed the country’s citadel of democracy. The Donald Trump-incited crush of disillusioned rioters, fueled by a stream of fantastical lies, believed that the 2020 election had been stolen by sinister forces working to undermine the democratic election.

Of course, not only was their belief flatly incorrect, but evidence later emerged indicating that it was Trump who, in fact, had tried to subvert democracy.

Facts, however, have little bearing on the sentiment inside the Republican Party, which has been fed a steady diet of lies and half-truths by Fox News and the rest of the sprawling right-wing media machine. To wit, the false notion that Joe Biden nefariously stole the 2020 election is now widely shared inside the GOP. A CNN poll conducted over the summer found that nearly 70% of Republicans believe Biden’s win was not legitimate, a number that has continued to tick up.

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[-] S_204@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

LoL. This is the stupidity that you get from watching Fox News and their ilk. Totally debased from reality.

[+] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works -31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't watch Fox News, nor am I American.

It doesn't take a genius to see Jan 6 is more complicated than "chuds attacked the capitol". "Lefty" mainstream media in America is just a different flavour of neoliberal shit slung by an opposing oligarch. American politics and media are just IRL WWE but with actual stakes and these psychopaths on all sides don't care who they hurt.

Examples of the IRL WWE in action on the "left": Kyle Rittenhouse, Nick Sandmann, Johnny Depp. On the "right": election interference, welfare queens, Planned Parenthood rumors.

As hard as this will be for you to accept, you're being sold lies just the same as the people you mock for being uninformed.

I'd rather take a principled stance here and protect people's rights even if I find those people and their actions distasteful, than create a precedent and make those rights harder to protect and uphold later. Some of what happened here is entrapment and its bullshit.

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 10 months ago

That's a lot of words to say nothing

[-] Sagifurius@lemm.ee -5 points 10 months ago

God you people are morons

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago

This may be an ESL thing, but your comment communicated no information. Seems to be randomly chosen words with small chunks of your opinion peppered in. But the comment itself makes absolutely zero sense.

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fuck Putin. Ask him how Democracy's Dick tastes, and how civilian volunteers with drones kicking his ass feels.

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