I do agree that both liberals and conservatives can and do use their media friends in away it suits them. There is no doubt about and we have seen it many times in the past. It will be repeated again and again. But the calls for riots and violence from some of his supporters is not something new. It has happened in the past, it's happening now, and it will happen in the future.
(06-03-2024, 03:38 AM)FlyersFan Wrote: Yep. There ya' go. Exactly. Trump received over 72 million votes in 2020, and yet the media say all Trump supporters are calling for violence when in fact the media only finds a handful of anonymous posts on social media saying so, and those anonymous posts could be from ANYONE including from the left trying to make Trump voters look unhinged. Trolls on both the left and the right do that ... go on social media and pretend to be the other side and make stupid posts trying to make the other side look bad.
It is well known that the media reports politics in an inflammatory way and that it has agenda. Useful idiots suck it up because it says what they want to hear and it feeds their hate and their own opinion. Confirmation bias.
The verdict was Thursday. Today is Monday. There have been no riots. No one has been hanged. No one has gone out and burned down the White House. No one has shot at a juror. etc etc. Could something happen in the future? Sure. But considering that the fake J6 'insurrection' (as the media calls it) was only a couple of hundred people and it was pretty pathetic, I doubt that anything big is going to happen this time either. Also considering the behavior of the left with the George Floyd riots ... actual burning down of buildings and mass looting etc etc ... I think America is more likely to see civil unrest if Trump IS elected rather than if he is not. That's what history tells us.
I could end up being wrong and there could be unrest from Trump supporters like the unrest we saw from the left during the George Floyd riots. But I doubt it. Only time will tell. In the mean time, I'm sure the 'media' will continue to fan the flames with their 'enhanced' one sided political stories and get segments of the population, who suck it up, all uptight.
You are making a lot of strawman arguments.
The media didn't say all his supporters are in are calling for violence and riots but some of his supporters. And that's true. It's factual. They ve done it in the past and acted upon these threats when they stormed the Capitol.
It is Monday but the press reported on the threats made by some of his supporters. They didn't say these threats will materialise or are likely to materialise.
Do you still think your opinion is more reliable as a source thsn all the sources I have provided? Ok, sometimes the newspapers could report this that are wrong and not factual. But is this the case?
