08-20-2021, 12:55 PM
(08-20-2021, 12:42 PM)Matt_Crimson Wrote: That wasn't my argument though.
I said "people" which isn't just about news headlines. You just had to correct this thread title here on this message board, so clearly I'm not pulling this out of nowhere.
A lot of people don't even read or watch CNN and get most of their news from social media, which I have seen people also mischaracterize it there before I saw this thread.
Or give him due process.
I used CNN as most view it as a pretty liberal news source for perspective. Social media is a tough one because how much of it is bots pushing it versus humans is tough. That said, what is your point?
Was it not concerning that a domestic terrorist who has been radicalized by misinformation threatened to blow up the capital? This on the heels of other domestic terrorists storming said capital this very year, again because of outright lies? Your kind of arguing semantics when the real threat here isn’t sensationalism, it’s the lack of urgency to a very real and well documented threat to national security. I feel like most wouldn’t worry about sensationalizing the headline here if the guy was a self admitted member of Al Qaeda.
The fear people have isn’t being artificially pushed based on “had a bomb didn’t have a bomb”, the fear is growing because the rapid radicalization of these people is only getting worse and it’s prompting them to do shit like this at all.
