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Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by ModernMech on Thursday November 15, 2018 @01:34PM (#18461904)
I'm always willing to hear outside opinions. I try to consume a variety of news sources. The reason I can so easily cite insanity coming from the right is because a man was moved to kill almost a dozen people just two weeks ago because of his ideas about Soros funding a caravan. That's not really something I picked up "in my echo chamber". Can you point to anything from the left even approaching that kind of level of insanity?
Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by jayess on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:19PM (#18462322)
Man shooting up a baseball game of Republican congressmen while screaming "this is for healthcare!"
Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by ModernMech on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:24PM (#18462367)
I'm not saying the there aren't nuts on both sides. Of course there are. This was about conspiracy theories. That some people in government are trying to take away healthcare isn't a conspiracy. That the Koch brothers are funding politicians who are trying to take away healthcare isn't insane.

That George Soros is funding a migrant caravan of invaders is a conspiracy theory. This theory was amplified by both the President and Fox News, so it's hard to claim it's not even a mainstream theory.

Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by southphillyman on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:18PM (#18462302)
>Can you point to anything from the left even approaching that kind of level of insanity?

Unfortunately their go to right now, and probably for the next x number of years, is the guy who shot up the Republican baseball game. No doubt there are extremists on both sides, one side just seems to have way more

Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by tropo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:38PM (#18462514)
I don't know why you'd characterize that shooter as "the right". He really hated Trump. He was a socialist.

There are a lot of these cases, where a violent person is unjustly tagged as "the right".

When someone can't be crammed into that mold, they are dropped from the news. A prime example is the youtube office shooter, who was a female muslim immigrant. As soon as the demographics became clear, the news dropped the story like a hot potato.

Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by hedvig on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:47PM (#18462612)
I mean, if she shot up youtube because she got worked up by another alt-right 4chan conspiracy theory, then you'd have a point. But she wasn't, she was upset youtube wasn't paying her enough.
Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by tropo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:42PM (#18464165)
The point is that any violent person unable to be portrayed as "the right" is quickly dropped by the news. The shooting was on the way to being the big news story of the month... and then suddenly dropped out of the news entirely. This creates a bias in the news: all the memorable violent people are on the right because the non-right ones are dropped from news coverage.

Basically, the news wants an attacker who looks like their stereotype of an NRA member and/or Trump supporter. Anybody else is not deemed newsworthy.

Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by ModernMech on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:46PM (#18462601)
Whether or not he hated Trump, he believed that Soros was funding a migrant caravan of invaders, a lie that both Trump and Fox News was pushing constantly, and continued to push even after the shooting. He didn't get those ideas from out of thin air. He got them from the right wing party establishment.
Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by tropo on Thursday November 15, 2018 @05:34PM (#18464117)
So, I'm curious, who exactly do you think is funding them?

That trip is not free.

Soros certainly has a history of funding exactly that sort of thing. For example, he paid to have boats pick people up right off the coast of Libya and take them to Italy. It would not be the slightest bit surprising for Soros to fund a mob of thousands to invade the USA.

If not Soros, then who? (and who paid that group, and who paid the payers... and does it not lead back to Soros?)

Re:Facebook reportedly discredited critics by linking them t... by mturmon on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:38PM (#18465471)
"If not Soros, then who?"

This sounds like if one cannot pinpoint the supposed funder (and prove that they act alone), then you'll feel free to assume it is Soros? This is nonsense.