Tomorrow? What about all those mass shootings. These people have been encouraging each other in their various echo chambers to commit violence for over a decade now. Just look at the online cesspool known as 4chan.
You don’t need to look at a shitty image board, you can load up Fox News, One America, The Babylon Bee, shit you can just load up Twitter and get plugged right in to your very own right wing grifter telling you what to be mad about and who you want to kill.
It’s your very own Two Minutes Hate delivered by your choice of bland talking head.
I posted this story a few weeks ago, but it’s relevant here, too. A few weeks ago, I was sitting with two members of a club I’m in. One, retired military, noted that some US bases in Turkey are restricting access to retired military members, and he expressed concern that the same policy would spread to bases in the US, essentially removing a benefit that they were promised upon retirement. Okay, I see his concern, and he mentioned no reason for the change in rule (also, I just read an article about it, and no specific reason is given).
The other guy: “It’s those damn woke assholes. They ruin everything!”
So, basically, the right wing media tells the second guy to jump, and he doesn’t even wait to ask how high. There’s no conscious thought - we’re hating woke people today, so that’s who must be behind this change. It used to be black people, then it was gay people, now it’s woke and trans people…they don’t notice how they’re being strung along.
It’s insane. And scary as shit. The first guy was like, “Well, I don’t know about that…” and moved on to something else.
Trump voters today, mass murderers tomorrow.
Tomorrow? What about all those mass shootings. These people have been encouraging each other in their various echo chambers to commit violence for over a decade now. Just look at the online cesspool known as 4chan.
You don’t need to look at a shitty image board, you can load up Fox News, One America, The Babylon Bee, shit you can just load up Twitter and get plugged right in to your very own right wing grifter telling you what to be mad about and who you want to kill.
It’s your very own Two Minutes Hate delivered by your choice of bland talking head.
I posted this story a few weeks ago, but it’s relevant here, too. A few weeks ago, I was sitting with two members of a club I’m in. One, retired military, noted that some US bases in Turkey are restricting access to retired military members, and he expressed concern that the same policy would spread to bases in the US, essentially removing a benefit that they were promised upon retirement. Okay, I see his concern, and he mentioned no reason for the change in rule (also, I just read an article about it, and no specific reason is given).
The other guy: “It’s those damn woke assholes. They ruin everything!”
So, basically, the right wing media tells the second guy to jump, and he doesn’t even wait to ask how high. There’s no conscious thought - we’re hating woke people today, so that’s who must be behind this change. It used to be black people, then it was gay people, now it’s woke and trans people…they don’t notice how they’re being strung along.
It’s insane. And scary as shit. The first guy was like, “Well, I don’t know about that…” and moved on to something else.
It’ll be regularly scheduled pogromming