These narratives have real world consequences. Anytime you mention Xinjiang or that China is committing a “genocide” to liberals and conservatives it helps spread this shit. It helps reinforce Sinophobic narratives and will result in more deaths. Combat these lies and this propaganda where you see It. It is our moral duty to do so.
I find it telling that every center left site I know of is radio silent on this recent shooting. Probably because they’re worried about pondering it’s implications.
Everything is about politics. None of these politicians, people or news agencies actually care.
1.) It appears he used a handgun, which will do damage to their “AR-15s DO MASS MURDER!!!” narrative/legislation.
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2.) It’ll take air-time away from their Capitol “riot” meme, which they’ve been successfully using to distract people from how shitty the Democrats actually are, now that they have absolute power.
And on the “riot,” I finally took the time to watch more of the footage… it’s basically a bunch of morons and boomers literally just wandering around taking pictures. Most of them didn’t even leave the velvet ropes lol, it’s the weirdest fucking thing. Calling it a riot is far, far too generous… and insulting to actual rioters everywhere. Some guys outside destroyed some camera equipment though, so I guess that’s something. Look at this:
It was the strangest fucking thing… they kept screaming not to damage anything… then said a prayer? Then told the cops they loved them? Then eventually politely left because the cops asked them to?
The reality of the situation is all of this stuff is just a distraction: Jan 6 was some inconsequential bullshit, “student loan forgiveness” will never happen, universal healthcare will never happen, etc, etc… all of this stuff is just a smokescreen the establishment can hide behind while they do establishment shit. All these people care about is getting re-elected so they can line their pockets with “speaking fees” from their owners.
