So, yeah, no one stormed the Capitol. The police opened the door and people calmly walked in

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[–]magnora7 22 insightful - 3 fun22 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

The words I'm hearing being thrown around repeatedly like "insurrection" and "stormed the capital" are ridiculous when you watch the videos. It's like 200 people who were let in, who walked around taking selfies and waving flags mostly.

And it's especially hard to listen to it come from the same people who have been cheering BLM destroying cities, suddenly are super law-and-order because someone they disagree with was doing something similar.

The hypocrisy I'm seeing from people, both on the left and the right, is just stunning. It's like everyone thinks they're pulling a fast one on everyone else, but really they're like a kindergartner telling an obvious lie who thinks they're getting away with it. It's so transparent. Yet everyone keeps pretending, out of fear I suppose. I think everyone is just afraid to be "on the wrong side" so they don't really have any opinions, they just echo the opinions of the day from the group, which is now led by the pied piper of corporate-owned media.

The media is so exhausting these days. Everything is turned up 11, all the time. Psychological warfare and narrative framing that never ends. Seems like the only solution is to walk away. The only winning move is not to play.

[–]fred_red_beans 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Agreed, the hypocrisy is at an all time high.

How can the inflammatory rhetoric from the media be sustainable in the long run?

What is happening now though is that the state, working with social media, are being able to get better and better at understanding the public's perceptions and how far their propaganda can be pushed and how successful it can be. I think there have been many actions to test this. For instance, the tea party was not a grass roots movement. It's all about control.

I think you're right. It's better to just walk away from the main stream media and the gaslighting. The two sides being played against the middle are really just one side being played against all who don't conform.

But, while there are the few who are playing and manipulating the public, the public just goes along with it without much questioning.

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For instance, the tea party was not a grass roots movement. It's all about control.

It was originally a grassroots anti-immigration movement, which was then co-opted. That is how they deal with popular uprisings: they are taken over, subverted, or dismantled. Sometimes all three.

[–]fred_red_beans 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It may have originally been grassroots, but it wasn't anything until the promotion from fox news et al.

You're right about the infiltration of groups. Any group that gets close to some kind of power generally gets infiltrated, bought out, or taken down.