Totally not related to another post in this community…

What fearmongering do you find laughably wrong? What do you witness everyday that makes others clutch their pearls while watching the news?

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    The recent protesting in Los Angeles. It was actually small, organized, and nonviolent.

    It was a little bigger than the protests that happen nearly every year but the conservative media portrayed it as the entire city being in full riot mode.

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      27 days ago

      It was night and day what they showed on the news vs social media. Conservative news might as well had shown half of LA on fire with mothers clutching their babies because of scary rioters. Liberal news showed nothing. Social Media showed a lot of very angry citizens peacefully protesting in LA who wanted their families and friends returned from being disappeared.

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        27 days ago

        LA definitely got the Portland treatment. Interesting when they claim violence when the only violence to be seen stems from the fucking police and ICE.

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          27 days ago

          Same as every protest. People peacefully organize in a park or something. Police get all weak in the knees and put on riot gear and bring out tanks, and start pushing people around. Finally a single protester throws a rock back and the media swarms in calling it a “warzone”. Closeups of the rock, slowmo of it going overhead, interviews with sergeants. Policeman crying. Every. Damn. Time.