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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #27510 on: January 21, 2019, 12:57:55 am »
Looks like the DC MAGA incident is turning into quite the clusterfuck. Social media and mainstream media went into a frenzy over a viral video where MAGA hat-wearing Kentuckian teenagers were allegedly harassing, mocking, and intimidating in a racist manner a Native American Vietnam veteran coming from a recently-ended protest march.

Long story short, teenagers were doxxed and had death threats sent to them; they might face expulsion; and colleges and universities were messaged to reject all of their applications...

And then suddenly an almost 2-hour-long video with context arrives and slowly, but surely, the mainstream media realizes they might have fucked up.

But of course, the damage is already done.

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« Reply #27511 on: January 21, 2019, 03:38:23 am »
Yeah, it's like they were stumbling all over themselves and each other before getting the full facts for sure.

From the articles, it also sounds like the guy confused the situation by trying to somehow mediate between the two and the students got a bit confused.
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« Reply #27512 on: January 21, 2019, 04:34:10 am »
The original video the media put out showed the MAGA-kids chanting and appearing to get up close in the face of the Native American vet who was just minding his own business. They looked extremely douchy.

The new context is that there was also an anti-MAGA hate group spewing extremely aggressive harassment at the teens. The teens got permission from their school chaperone, then started chanting their school motto in defiance of the hate group. That's when the Native American guy showed up and decided to intervene by putting himself uncomfortably close in the teen's faces and singing his song, while they did their best to ignore him.

There's two sides to every story, and it's yet unclear where the truth lies here. As far as I'm concerned, none of these people had any business making public displays that day, so they're all idiots.
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« Reply #27513 on: January 21, 2019, 04:42:06 am »
I do tend to find that the "everyone is wrong" assumption can be correctly applied to many circumstances.

So much so that it actually autocompletes with my predictive text suggestions.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #27514 on: January 21, 2019, 08:00:32 am »
Suppose it's typical of the buzzfeed 24/7 news cycle that they jump to conclusions before they report evidence. When you bite black israelite bait without realising top kek
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« Reply #27515 on: January 21, 2019, 11:22:29 am »
I saw that the other day and was like "Oh man, it's like a made for Left Wing News event. "ELDERLY NATIVE AMERICAN WAR VET PLAYING DRUMS OF FREEDOM ACCOSTED BY MAGA TEENS, BYSTANDERS LOOK ON IN HORROR."

Sometimes, just sometimes, the stupid alt right labels fit. *Sigh*
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« Reply #27516 on: January 21, 2019, 02:39:26 pm »
And in something approaching actual news, unscheduled absenteeism for TSA workers has roughly tripled compared to last year. From around 3% to 10%, many citing financial limitations as their reason for being unable to make it to work.
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« Reply #27517 on: January 21, 2019, 02:56:32 pm »
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many citing financial limitations as their reason for being unable to make it to work.

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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #27518 on: January 21, 2019, 03:42:17 pm »
I wonder if he could fund his wall by abolishing the TSA
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« Reply #27519 on: January 21, 2019, 03:53:13 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on January 21, 2019, 03:42:17 pm
I wonder if he could fund his wall by abolishing the TSA

It has an annual budget of $7.58 billion.

Hey, trading a year worth of airplane terrorists for many years worth of border terrorists seems like a pretty good deal, right? /s
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« Reply #27520 on: January 21, 2019, 04:04:48 pm »
Trading getting onto a plane unaccosted for a border wall is damn tempting.
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« Reply #27521 on: January 21, 2019, 04:08:20 pm »
No more security theater grope and tickle!?  How will the US compete with the UK on who can be the most dystopian manifestation of 1984!?
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« Reply #27522 on: January 21, 2019, 04:17:40 pm »
Quote from: wierd on January 21, 2019, 04:08:20 pm
No more security theater grope and tickle!?  How will the US compete with the UK on who can be the most dystopian manifestation of 1984!?
By having a wall, duh.
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Re: AmeriPol thread
« Reply #27523 on: January 21, 2019, 05:39:54 pm »
Quote from: Kagus on January 21, 2019, 04:17:40 pm
Quote from: wierd on January 21, 2019, 04:08:20 pm
No more security theater grope and tickle!?  How will the US compete with the UK on who can be the most dystopian manifestation of 1984!?
By having a wall, duh.
True, we just move the theater elsewhere.
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« Reply #27524 on: January 21, 2019, 05:44:46 pm »
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