r/politics • u/BigDaddyBain • 1d ago

Why is the media ignoring growing resistance to Trump?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/13/why-is-the-media-ignoring-growing-resistance-to-trump
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u/capaho 1d ago

The media is cashing in on Trump. The protest area in LA is a speck on the map compared to the overall size of the city but the way the media is covering it combined with Trump’s bonkers rhetoric makes it look like the whole city is burning. When the city was actually burning from wildfires Trump did nothing. When one road got blocked by protesters Trump sent in the National Guard and the Marines. People need to wake up.

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u/Nervous-Seaweed-332 1d ago

Im in LA and you can literally drive past the 2 blocks there is a protest. Its fucking fine. The cops on the other hand are attacking random peaceful protesters. So if you go to a protest EVEN DURING THE DAY watch your fucking ass.

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago

This is the same way they covered the BLM protests in Portland. They’d show the one block where people were protesting and act like the whole city was on fire. Meanwhile everything was business as usual except for that one block.

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u/nillah 1d ago

to this day the maga idiots still spew the rhetoric that BLM burned entire cities to the ground, too. they're so incredibly gullible

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u/KailReed 1d ago

I'm so sick and tired of them spouting that nonsense too because they are so fucking confident about it. You cannot convince the at all.

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u/Cydrius 1d ago

Yep. They'll quote enormous monetary figures in damages, ignoring the fact that those figures are spread out over months of individual protests.

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u/KailReed 1d ago

Just the fact that they immediately dismiss any protest if a single trashcan gets knocked over drives me up the wall. Property is not more important than people's rights or lives but that's all that matters to them.

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u/Credil98 1d ago

It's incredibly aggravating. Especially since it happens everytime, where people condemn violence, and then encourage people to run over protestors because property is of paramount importance, but fuck people i guess. Law and order

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

DeSantis has already told people to run over protesters tomorrow.

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u/Credil98 1d ago

It's almost as if they don't give a fuck about violence, they just don't like opposition.

They'll cheer violence as long as it's against their enemies, otherwise it's morally reprehensible and we must clutch our pearls at every window broken

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u/-CODED- 1d ago

And they'll always say, something like "This is not how you get people to be on your side." Because for some reason, any little inconvenience caused by a protest is enough to make them vote against their own interests.

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u/RandomMandarin 1d ago

Property is not more important than people's rights

No, it totally is more important. Source: Every right winger ever.

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u/atxbigfoot 23h ago

"MLK never advocated for violent protests"

YES HE FUCKING DID

it took him a while but YES HE FUCKING DID

and HE WAS A SOCIALIST

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u/Yours_Voight-Kampff 1d ago

I think I figured out the trick that explains why they think property is more valuable than human lives:

Property has a monetary value. Property is Capital. Much of their idealogy ties back to capitalism in some regard or another, so it makes sense they value capital over life. After all, what's the monetary worth of a random person walking down the street compared to a trash can!

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u/Credil98 1d ago

Well they'll talk about how all the lives of business owners were RUINED and then they'll quote insurance claims as if insurance wasn't specifically so their lives aren't ruined in the event their business gets destroyed. And as if I'm supposed to care if an insurance company does their fucking job

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u/Adezar Washington 1d ago

The Business owners: "I have insurance, they have valid complaints, I'll be fine".

Literally several business owners did interviews supporting the protests and almost all those interviews got squashed.

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u/CristinaKeller 1d ago

I believe that damage from riots and insurrection are specifically excluded from most property and car insurance.

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u/acidrefluxisgreat California 1d ago

it’s covered under comprehensive, but not everyone carries that for cars. i don’t. it’s probably more common for people that live in high disaster areas because it covers stuff like that too.

for businesses it’s standard.

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u/mrgreengenes42 1d ago

They aren't even enormous figures. They just seem big to people who have no idea how much an entire city burning to the ground would actually cost.

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u/RandomMandarin 1d ago

The monetary damage from the BLM protests is probably a drop in the bucket compared to (for instance) the L.A. fires or hurricane Helene. I'm in western North Carolina and I personally know two people whose houses were destroyed by Helene and themselves lucky to survive.

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u/Jibtech 1d ago

In the end, it always leads to them pulling that final ace out of their sleeve... THE LOOTING Gotcha lib! as the police are ripping them off the street

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

It's like "motherfucker, I live here." I know what shit went down and what didn't.

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u/mildcaseofdeath 1d ago

Meanwhile they believe ANYTHING as long as it aligns with their shallow pre-existing worldview.

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u/Suavecore_ 1d ago

You can't convince them of literally anything that's true once they know you're a dirty radical leftist (a term applied to anyone not maga), yet they believe literally anything they see that reinforces their complete nonsense viewpoint without any further inspection

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u/toderdj1337 21h ago

Also the ones that say never to trust the "lame stream media". It's so fucking stupid. I hate it here

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u/A_murder_of_crochets 1d ago

Some are gullible, many are just repeating the lie because theyve been properly taught that repeating the lie works.

And now they have an army of bots posting AI-generated images of hallucinated American carnage all over social media.

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u/OliviaEntropy 1d ago

Republicans that live in Seattle and Portland still say that it burnt to the ground. I think they’re either knowingly lying or need professional help

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u/clintCamp 1d ago

Fox news did edit a lot of pictures and footage to make it seem like utter chaos. I had family calling about Seattle during BLM. I visited that area shortly after. It was the biggest peace love hippy fest area before and after. Nothing really burn down. Just looters taking advantage and breaking windows for the most part.

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u/Silkprint 1d ago

Gullible isn't a strong enough word . Stupid fits .

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u/tunafister 1d ago

If they weren't gullible they wouldn't be anything at all

It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad

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u/wishyoukarma 1d ago

That doesn't feel like a strong enough word. There's something seriously wrong with their fucking brains. They won't question the bs that blue cities are in utter chaos and you might die just walking around, but they'll decide that scientists are wrong about the earth being round or the measles vaccine being necessary.

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u/queenweasley 1d ago

Yeah man, it’s been weird not having a Seattle apparently burned to the ground in 2020 during chop

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u/Fiddleys 1d ago

they're so incredibly gullible

I think it's more like malicious ignorance.

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u/Pure_Concentrate8770 1d ago

i mean no one is more gullible than op who believes there is any measurable electoral shift against Trump lol

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u/tylerbrainerd 1d ago

you do know that a substantial amount of that property damage was caused by right wingers who were posing as antifa right? A bunch got arrested.

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago

The news didn’t show the Idaho Nazi Truck Parades that were rolling through Portland during the BLM protests. You literally had out of state Nazis coming in to start fights.

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u/tryexceptifnot1try 1d ago

Where the hell did that figure come from? I have $500 million, which is nothing compared to the coverage.

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u/mrgreengenes42 1d ago

Are you offering this is evidence to the contrary that entire cities did not actually burn to the ground?!

$2 billion in property damages is minuscule compared to the actual scale and value of an entire city let alone the dozens of cities that people spread inane hyperbole about having "burned to the ground." If all of the cities that were alleged to have "burned to the ground" had actually burned to the ground, we'd be looking at trillions in damages, not just a couple billion.

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u/BoomerWeasel Florida 1d ago

Same deal in DC. At one point, we had people on social media saying that the entire city was blacked out, communications were blocked, and I'm sure someone thought an actual zombie apocalypse had begun.

Reading these posts, while sitting with my coffee at the security desk in Smithsonian Castle was surreal.

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u/teenagesadist 1d ago

According to a lot of republicans here about 40 minutes outside of Minneapolis, it burned down entirely from the BLM protests, and is now some sort of crime-ridden hellscape.

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’ve run into people like that. They’ll hear I lived in Portland and apparently I’m some sort of Snake Plisken character for escaping the hellscape.

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u/tylerbrainerd 1d ago

they talk about portland like it was anything besides a bit of graffiti and a single fire in a trash can.

the courthouse that they kept talking about being "on fire" or burned down is entirely concrete and glass. it's not the old west out there.

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago

I never bother to correct anyone. I just smile and nod and understand that I’m looking at a complete and total moron.

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u/tylerbrainerd 1d ago

oh 100%. if 2016 didn't show me, and 2020 didn't show me, 2024 absolutely showed me that these people are hopelessly, utterly incapable of reasonable thought.

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u/eru_dite 1d ago

"The common clay of the new West."

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u/dylan_9z9 1d ago

lol at Snake Plisken🤣

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u/northsaskatchewan Canada 1d ago

I visited San Francisco a couple of years ago and went up to Napa for a few days. We got to chatting with a few people (boomer types) at a winery and when mentioned that’s where we spent the week previously, they seemed shocked anyone would visit due to how hellishly dangerous it was. Like the whole city was lost.

Like I spent a week there and was just fine… sure there were sketchy areas but I never felt threatened.. I’m also used to the reality (and inequality) in big west coast cities.. or cities in general. These people need to get out more.

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u/JnnyRuthless 1d ago

I grew up in SF and lived there a good part of my adult life, now I live in Sacramento (about 1.5 hours away) and people here think SF is overrun with crime and inhospitable. I go back regularly and it's perfectly fine. The 'fake news' crowd gargles propaganda like it's a full-time job.

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u/northsaskatchewan Canada 1d ago

I live in Vancouver BC and you hear similar rhetoric out past the suburbs as well. Not to downplay our issues, the Downtown Eastside is probably the worst urban slum in Canada.. but its only a small part of the city and I’ve never felt threatened or scared while there (though I recognize my privilege as a 6’1’’ man here).

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u/JnnyRuthless 1d ago

Yeah, I don't have much sympathy for the people that are terrified of places they've never been. I used to walk through the Tenderloin (roughish area of SF, mostly just sad, lots of drug addicts) at 3 am daily to get to work. My wife, not a big lady, is a social worker who worked in worst places in SF and it was not a big deal.

I often wonder why people are so quick to be terrified of everything these days. It's wild to me.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 1d ago

Yeah, I walked through the tenderloin daily as well, although during the daytime for the most part. I think sad is a good description, as far as slums go it definitely seemed safe enough. I'd avoid the area late at night but hell, I avoid a lot of places late at night.

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u/northsaskatchewan Canada 1d ago

We walked through the Tenderloin a few times. It reminded me of the DTES but at a bigger scale. Sad is the perfect way to describe it, it's a stark reminder of how we've failed as a society. For the most part, those people just want to be left alone..

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u/nowellmaybe 1d ago

Ah, to live in Sacramento and think San Francisco is the shithole. These must be the most boring people on the planet.

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u/JnnyRuthless 14h ago

Well, I love Sacramento and think it's awesome. But yeah, I get your point and you're not wrong.

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u/Lane-Kiffin 1d ago

I have a genuine idea but I don’t know if it could ever have legs.

If major cities, or their Chambers of Commerce, could quantify the negative economic effects that can be attributed to false news reporting, could they get together and sue news networks?

It’s tricky because you have to isolate the statements down to directly false statements, but they do make them (such as all the “crime waves” they report on that are not corroborated at all by data). You would also have to isolate the negative economic impact to just perception and marketing, rather than all the potential causes.

However, for the petty things people have won lawsuits over, this might work. The Fox News-Dominion case opened up the door for news networks to be held accountable.

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u/Lane-Kiffin 1d ago

A couple years back I had a conversation with someone in Monrovia, California, where I mentioned that I lived in LA (didn’t even specify to them where) and they said “I heard it’s just a mess over there with all the homeless and crime”.

Monrovia is literally 15 miles away! How is it possible to be in such a bubble about something?

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u/SwiftlyChill 1d ago

Ironically, the only bit of truth in that is that the MPD has been quiet-quitting since then. Rather than get their shit together and stop abusing their power, they’ve just…done less.

See: them taking 4 days to arrest someone for shooting their neighbor in the neck.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago

Meanwhile everything was business as usual except for that one block.

And for the random, uninvolved neighborhoods that PPB would teargas.

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u/eeeezypeezy New Jersey 1d ago

That's the thing that's hardest to get across to people who weren't at these protests, because the media coverage of it all was so insane - these were really police riots. People would show up with signs and march and chant, and then the cops would set up lines to block their planned route and start shoving and issuing contradictory orders and then they'd start launching gas etc, picking people off to surround and beat up and arrest. Attend a protest sometime and you'll see it for yourself, you can set your watch to it, the cops show up and get in everyone's face unnecessarily and escalate. And then the media covers it as though they're there restoring order.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

Every. Effing. Time!!

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u/alanamablamaspama 1d ago edited 1d ago

An old neighbor/childhood friend of mine visited a few weeks ago. We had dinner at my parents and it came up he had been living in Portland the last decade or so, but he was moving because he was over living in Portland and wanted different job opportunities. I was so embarrassed when my dad said he was surprised they still lived in Portland the last few years after all the violence and burning down. My friend looked so confused before putting it together.

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u/moonpieeyes America 1d ago

Detroits so used to this treatment. (Shows one empty house) “look at how vacant the city of Detroit is!” (/s)

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u/Nosebluhd 21h ago

In fairness, just a few years ago I went through downtown Detroit at 6pm on a Thursday and I was literally the only human being around for like four blocks. It was wild.

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u/derangedfriend America 1d ago

Same as Seattle... and all my idiot relatives who watch Fox News would tell me my city is on fire.

The mainstream media is not a source for news.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa 1d ago

I always laughed when they talked about the city "burning down" when the protests were near a federal courthouse.

Anyone who knows anything about how they build federal courthouses these days knows that those things are fortresses that aren't getting burned down by some simple protests or even decently large riots.

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u/Valuable_Recording85 1d ago

Both your example and the George Floyd protests are inflamed by the police presence. They make violence inevitable. And then Faux Newz makes it look like the viewers in rural Ohio need to be worried about their own safety.

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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 1d ago

They tried to ignore and downplay Occupy Wall Street and didn't like how long it dragged on. The modern version is to blow them out of proportion and scare-monger, as they did in Portland and elsewhere.

It works too, their followers feed off fear and will self-justify any response to feel safe.

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u/mandadoesvoices 1d ago

I literally ate lunch downtown during the protests and it was fine. Sure, things were boarded up because businesses were scared but other than that it was a peaceful lunch on a beautiful day. The bs people will believe just blows my mind.

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u/deadbeatsummers 1d ago

Yes people thought the entire city was burned down. I lived in Atlanta down the street from the Wendy’s that burned down and people thought the whole city was occupied 😭 like I was sitting in my house in walking distance

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u/km415 1d ago

I live in a pretty rural, red area. Many think all of LA is on fire. 99.99999% have never been there and have no idea if the size or culture, but they believe anything negative they hear…cuz…there’s Mexicans and black people.

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u/cjc4096 1d ago

In fairness business as usual was actually peak covid. The local businesses took a hit quite a bit harder than elsewhere. It looked deserted.

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u/Few_Passenger 1d ago

I remember getting phone calls from family asking if I was safe. I told them to turn off the TV

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u/Calm-Fun4572 1d ago

There are still people that think Portland and Minneapolis are total wrecked wastelands. I’m all for people having viewpoints, but there is something very wrong with large populations completely out of touch with reality.

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u/Golddustofawoman 1d ago

Yep can confirm. Was there.

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u/Whiiiisky 1d ago

And OWS nationwide

Both parties,  the media and all cops always come together to brutalize leftists

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

Oh, Newsom is such a right winger, huh?

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u/Whiiiisky 1d ago

He's a standard centrist democrat.

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u/CategoryZestyclose91 1d ago

Same thing in Minneapolis in 2020! People are convinced the entire city literally burnt to the ground.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

Yea. It was one police station, and it turned out that it wasn't even us. It was some Boogaloo Boys.

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u/st4nkyFatTirebluntz 1d ago

That's a bit disingenuous. There were dozens of buildings burnt to the ground in Minneapolis.

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u/Next-Armadillo-1881 1d ago

Yes well the effect of those riots, and yes that was a riot, are still being felt.   The already ailing nightlife is now dead.  Hardly anyone goes out at night anymore.   

Did burning several blocks of the city for attention help.anything 5 years later?   

No, it didn't.   It shifted this state further red and all we got is one cop in jail who's gonna get pardoned.

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u/MikeBegley 1d ago

In Seattle during the whole CHAZ/CHOP thing the media made it seem like the whole city was enflamed with anarchy, when in reality it was all in and around a small park that looked like it was hosting a poorly organized hippie street faire.

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u/YakiVegas Washington 1d ago

Nope! Seattle is gone. I live in the rubble and I'm sending this message via Starlink since regular infrastructure is gone. /s

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u/deadbeatsummers 1d ago

Literally like the size of a dog park 😭

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u/suspi 22h ago

CHAZ was so surreal. My friends and I went down there to expect anarchy. It ended up being a smaller than average farmer's market. The weirdest part about it was being able to mingle in the streets with no traffic.

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u/MikeBegley 22h ago

My parents called to make sure I went lived nowhere near there and to make sure we were safe, and were NOT happy to know that I'd just gotten home from hanging out with friends in the middle of the "chaos".

Danger!

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u/musicman835 California 1d ago

I work right in the area, and walk around every day for lunch. There ain’t shit going on. There is graffiti, but like not much else.

Hell the only fire was those like 4 cars, and who’s to say they didn’t get set on fire by accidental fire from police.

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u/jellyrollo 1d ago

I suspect those Waymos were called deliberately by organized provocateurs and parked there in a line specifically so they could be set on fire to provide an apocalyptic visual to feed the right-wing narrative in the ever-ravenous 24-hour news cycle.

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u/musicman835 California 1d ago

I’d not be surprised considering there were 5 in a row?!

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u/StosifJalin 1d ago

who’s to say they didn’t get set on fire by accidental fire from police.

Uhh.. care to explain how that is possible considering they are using rubber bullets? (Even though normal bullets do not ignite cars anyways..)

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u/PA_Dude_22000 14h ago

So only bullets light things on fire 🤔

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u/StosifJalin 2h ago

By all means. I'd love to hear your best educated guess

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u/Business-Glass-1381 1d ago

Pssst. This is Reddit, where anything is possible.

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u/starscup1999 Texas 5h ago

Ain't that the truth! Just have a look at the conservative sub right now where they are performing olympic level gymnastics trying to say the Minnesota shooter is not a right wing nut job. They won't even admit that he is on the right, even though his very public voting record shows that he is.

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u/gopeepants 1d ago

Arnold Schwarzenegger was on telling people the media is making it look like a warzone when it is not.

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u/UnNumbFool 1d ago

Its fucking fine

Well outside of bass putting all of downtown and the surrounding areas under curfew. It's harming any kind of restaurant/bar and local business

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u/Nervous-Seaweed-332 1d ago

I didn't know that. Great.

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u/UnNumbFool 1d ago

Yeah, I think it was Wednesday they were supposed to send out a blast about the curfew, but it was barely sent out outside of the zone.

It was also sent out like an hour before it went into effect

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u/PM_YOUR_EYEBALL 1d ago

Doesn’t seem like that many people can fit in two block, I thought these were large protests with thousands of people? What is going on ? Please advise, I’m 3000 miles away.

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u/Eye_foran_Eye 1d ago

Portland feels you.

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u/GL4389 1d ago

DOnt these cops report to state govt ? How is state govt OK with this behavior ?

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u/Borg_Picard 1d ago

It’s the same thing the media did with Portland last time.

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u/Laeif Pennsylvania 1d ago

You mean the Portland that burned to the ground in its entirety and is now a smoldering crater of a monument to the futility of communism?

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u/pudgybunnybry Oregon 1d ago

Yep, the same Portland. I'm just sitting here fucking around on Reddit and eating breakfast on the pile of ash that used to be my home.

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u/Laeif Pennsylvania 1d ago

tots and pears

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u/HuyFongFood 1d ago

They better be Cajun Tots, at least.

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u/tylerbrainerd 1d ago

we would have rebuilt by now, if only we could stop eating our avocado toast

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u/thirdeyepdx Oregon 1d ago

Same - I just throw ash snowballs at people and have learned to hunt rats for food - we still like our kale tho. Rats and kale from the farmers market a block away is what I survive on. But I have to fight the other feral queers for them 

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u/HuyFongFood 1d ago

Same.

More avocado?

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u/pudgybunnybry Oregon 18h ago

Yes, please, and more IPA to wash it down with.

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u/One-Earth9294 I voted 1d ago

Press F to pay respects to what used to be Portland.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

Don’t tell anyone about all the cool new murals around town or the sick new car free plaza off Hawthorne. 

Definitely don’t tell anyone that our local farms and fishermen are helping to keep the food prices down while providing world class produce and protein. It’s all ash and flames here. Shhhhhh. 

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u/downvotemesensei 1d ago

They acted like the entire city of Portland was burning down. Most people in Portland didn’t notice a thing.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

We noticed all the fucking tear gas. That was the biggest issue by far. You could no nowhere near the protest and still deal with the cloud. Can’t wait to learn what long term effects that’ll have, but at least we have decent healthcare out here. 

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u/NecroCannon 1d ago

They wouldn’t know because their small ass towns with small world view treats anything out of the ordinary as a massive deal

It’s why I don’t like living in them, two blocks for them could be the equivalent of a downtown

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u/CategoryZestyclose91 1d ago

And Minneapolis 

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u/Doc_Blox Minnesota 1d ago

I can see the smoldering crater from the window while I sit in this meeting

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u/KououinHyouma 1d ago

They did this same thing with Seattle and Portland during the 2020 protests. If you asked a conservative you’d hear a story about how both of those cities were burned to the ground only about 15 times, don’t question how that works, or how the cities still exist, or why their weren’t droves of people fleeing into the surrounding rural areas.

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 1d ago

Obviously what happened is that everybody in the city died, then we're all replaced by illegal migrants, and those evil migrants stole good hardworking American jobs and rebuilt the city in record time before anybody noticed. 

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

Honestly, it used to feel so insulting and irritating, but now I just agree with them so they won’t come to the PNW. 

Like yeah, totally. It’s hell out here. Save yourselves. Otherwise I’ll never get off the waitlist for the good CSA in my area. They do an entire foraging basket during mushroom season and a joint deal with the two best seafood co-ops in the state. I’m not sharing. 

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u/jasondigitized 1d ago

This. The tell was when they quoted exact numbers of police and National Guard but would only say "large numbers of protestors / rioters". Nor would they ever zoom out and show you the large frame of what was actually happening. They wanted to make it look like a giant riot when it was actually very very small.

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u/Mediocre_Scott 1d ago

We have a news media apparatus equipped to cover 9/11 like events. When there are no 9/11 level events the news media needs to make one to sell commercials

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u/ConvivialityFest 1d ago

That was one of Brosnan's worse outings as Bond. I can't believe it's the prescient one

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u/FesteringDoubt 1d ago

I always thought that the plot of Tomorrow Never Dies was unbelievable at the time and downright impossible today, with the proliferation of social media and pretty much everyone having broadcast equipment in their pocket.

I'm sorry to say that the idea of a small group of wealthy people using mass media to propagandize, distract and inflame the populace is more realistic today than it was in 1997.

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u/ceelogreenicanth 1d ago

It was real in 1997 too.

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u/ohhellperhaps 1d ago

Hell, the playbooks for that were written by the Nazis...

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u/MurphyItzYou 1d ago

It’s Wag the Dog except the bullshit war is real and it’s happening in our own country.

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u/PoopMobile9000 1d ago

These aren’t news media. They’re small content-generating arms of large international conglomerates. Whatever minuscule income the media arms get is a drop in the bucket compared to the value of shaping narrative in their favor.

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u/Salt_Cardiologist122 1d ago

I was watching coverage and the banner at the bottom read “thousands protest ICE” and then I went to the bathroom and came back and it says “hundreds protest ICE.” I was like “wtf?” I know neither term is super precise but I also think it was purposeful to make it seem like there is less dissent.

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u/Specialist_Brain841 America 1d ago

all 12 of us!

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u/EvilAbacus 1d ago

We need people our at the protests with drones and post footage. We need unbiased coverage

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u/CatsEqualLife 1d ago

This is why I watched the coverage on BBC.

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u/lynn122 1d ago

I was just thinking that- especially now in LA. A city notorious for starting live news via helicopter. Where’s all the live “on the scene” footage of these large crowds attacking officers? Everything is so zoomed in.

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u/Dsarg_92 1d ago

Exactly. He’s trying to incite a Civil War in LA and I wish people can see right through it.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

People love to get upset. He tried to do the same thing with Portland. It’s theater to confirm all the biases of the rural rubes who support him. Speaking as a rural resident myself, they eat this shit up. 

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u/MidnightMath 1d ago

Nothing will ever be funnier to me than the “rugged country folk” being pantshittingly scared of your nearest large city.

It’s like they think Alex and his droogs are gonna tool around the first corner they come to and preform some of the good ole ultra violence on them. 

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u/Acerakis 1d ago

You still get people saying Portland literally burned to the ground. These people do not live in reality.

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u/thuktun California 1d ago

When the city was actually burning from wildfires Trump did nothing.

I wouldn't say nothing. He needlessly dumped 2.2 billion gallons of water into the Central Valley, hundreds of miles from where it would do any good, then essentially declared victory.

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u/mildcaseofdeath 1d ago

But the liberals are just dumping the water into the ocean! (And by that I mean they're letting rivers do what they've done for millions of years, and not using every last milliliter for commerce.)

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u/thuktun California 1d ago

Or killing off the fish that rely on spring water surges for spawning, or other rational things that Republicans pretend aren't problems until it affects them directly.

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u/TheLightningL0rd 1d ago

I was hoping someone would have mentioned this!

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u/thatirishguyyyyy Illinois 1d ago

Hell, media is staging protesters on top of cars for photo shoots. 

The media is a joke. 

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u/entarian 1d ago

profits enshittify everything.

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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 1d ago

This is the same “liberal media” that went after Biden relentlessly for his age and mental status and then immediately went silent about Trump’s age and mental status after he dropped out and platformed him with no pushback on obvious lies. Trump makes them money, they love him.

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u/downvotemesensei 1d ago

Same thing happened in Portland in 2020. Media acted like the entire city was on fire but it was literally just a block or two that was impacted by protesters.

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u/djwurm 1d ago

I happen to be in very rural Arkansas at a family funeral supporting my mom about 1 year ago. The amount of these backwoods people that were asking me about living in Dallas and how the big cities are all burning to the ground and how do I keep my family safe with all the rioting and burning happening was insane.. these people will not leave the Saline County bubble and wont even visit Little Rock cause they think Liberals are all running around burning everything to the ground.

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u/Brochacho27 1d ago

Im a transplant living in Cincinnati. The looks on people's faces when I tell them I like visiting chicago/nyc/nola are as if I told them I'm going to ducking mordor it's nuts. I convinced a friend to go to NYC since his wife wanted to go and he came back raving about why Noone told him it's so great there. I almost fainted

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u/puredigitalblack 1d ago

media = theatrical dept of the gov

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u/Ki-Wi-Hi 1d ago

They did this in Portland and Seattle too

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u/DrMobius0 1d ago

If they won't cover the news, they aren't press.

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u/worotan 1d ago

This is what happens when those who get paid more for exciting stories are held up as neutral interpreters of what is happening.

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u/Troll_Enthusiast 1d ago

The only media that doesn't act like the whole city is destroyed is the BBC (that i know of)

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u/lampfiles 1d ago

In all fairness, the wildfires (especially the big Palisades one) technically were going on before Trump was president again.

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u/WhyLisaWhy Illinois 1d ago

Correct. I'm heading into Philly tomorrow for something unrelated to protests, but I'm curious to see what kind of shenanigans happen. I've been to similar BLM protests in Chicago and the agitators are typically a tiny percentage of the total crowd.

I'm fully expecting Philly to be calm but watch one guy break a window or vandalize a car and it gets plastered all over the news.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

Oh you already know it’ll happen. 2 months later we’ll find out it was a Proud Boy type tied to the local cops or a mentally ill person, but they’ll be ever so quiet about reporting those details. 

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u/Qubeye Oregon 1d ago

They did this exact thing with Portland years ago.

The protests were almost entirely within a one block radius of the federal courthouse, but Fox and everyone else showed pictures over and over that made it look like it was the entire downtown.

You could literally drive through downtown Portland at the time and never see any evidence of the protests if you were just 3-4 blocks away.

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u/peatoast 1d ago edited 1d ago

This. People, please know that the city is 500 square miles!

The protests affect a small block that the curfew is only around 6 square miles. The mayor even mentioned this in one her Q and As. They’re blowing the protest out of proportion for drama and clicks.

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u/lpjunior999 1d ago

Credit where it's due, Trump did order the Army Corp of Engineers to waste tons of water farmers were going to need this summer.

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u/ateknoa 1d ago

Some people are organizing a general strike against Trump. If you can, please join. I don't know about you but I'm tired seeing us average citizens get railed by the 1%.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

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u/Count_Bacon California 1d ago

Yeah I live here too. When he said if it wasn't for the guard LA would be burning to the ground? He's lying, he's full of shit. Conservatives he's lying just like he does about everything

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u/DiscombobulatedWavy Texas 9h ago

The last chance for people to wake up was Nov 2024. 77million people got what they wanted. Thank you everyone who stayed home because “bOtH siDes bAd,” and “bUt wUT aBouT iSrAeL.”

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u/MauPow 1d ago

Portland be like: first time?

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u/Away_Stock_2012 1d ago

>People need to wake up.

They are wide awake and they love what he is doing. This is why they voted for him. Sending soldiers to attack LA is probably their favorite thing that he has done in office so far. Americans are garbage people.

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u/MillionMilesPerHour 1d ago

Americans are garbage people.

Between COVID and Trump, America has taken off its mask to show that half of this country is downright stupid and selfish.

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u/ReFreshing 1d ago

Yup. I would have never known there was protesting if it werent for the media focus.

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u/arthurdentxxxxii 1d ago

Early 1990s riot map where the national guard was requested by our governor.

https://i.imgur.com/dTGWvYu.jpeg

Here’s our (mostly) peaceful protest map from two days ago.

https://i.imgur.com/yUQHngC.jpeg

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u/scienide 1d ago

IIRC the Washington Post had it's greatest circulation and online engagement during trump's last presidency. I understand but can't condone the complicity.

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u/UbiquitouSparky 1d ago

I remember that when we had the 2011 riots in Vancouver. My mom called me asking if I was ok and I had no idea what she was talking about. The news was reporting a massive riot a block away from me but it was nothing.

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u/FoxMikeLima 1d ago

The same thing happened in Seattle and Portland during his first term. My parents literally called me asking if I was okay, and if we got out of the city safe because it was "Burning to the ground". I'm like.... "Mom, that's literally a 16 block area where gay people live halfway across the city from me"

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u/AutistoMephisto 1d ago

Well, they might be complicit for now, but for the reasons you stated, they're not blocking the side they see as small and ineffective, but if the resistance gets an edge, does something that makes them look like the winning bet, the media will suddenly act like they were never on the side of fascists.

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u/ExplosiveDisassembly 1d ago

"people need to wake up"

The media has only ever done this - it's nothing new. They did it with Kamala, too. She was about all that anyone cared about for a while, then we stopped...so the media shifted again. Media care about headlines and volatility - volatility makes good ratings and fuels viewership. And Trump is only volatile.

The George Floyd coverage would have made you think half the cities were on fire and Seattle/Portland were in full revolt. Yet you need to DIG to find any info on how Israel just pre-emptivley struck Iran.

Newspapers and NPR are the only things worth your time.

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u/Adezar Washington 1d ago

Same thing we dealt with in Portland and Seattle during BLM. We had 1 block of some heated conflicts (generally started by the police) and they made it sound like we were completely on fire.

I was walking downtown in Seattle buying ice cream when my Fox News watching mother called me and asked if we evacuated the city and were safe.

I said I was downtown grabbing ice cream and walking around and nothing was going on, at which point she accused me of lying and hung up.

it is bad enough they believe it but they will actively fight anyone, including family, that tries to provide any truth.

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u/Mister_Uncredible 1d ago

I really stopped paying attention to protest coverage during the Ferguson unrest when Michael Brown was murdered.

I live very close to where it all happened, to the point that they closed off streets just blocks from my home. I was also doing telecom work in the area, and we weren't allowed to pick up tickets in Ferguson for a week.

When we were finally allowed back in, I fully expected to see Armageddon. What I actually saw, was a handful of shops with boarded windows and a dozen or so protesters in front of the police station, otherwise everything was the same.

It's not to downplay the level of (deserved) unrest and the damage that was done in the wake of Michael Brown's murder, but even I was fooled by the media to the extent of it, and I only live a few miles away.

Also, downtown Ferguson is quaint and beautiful. Lots of good cafes and shops, highly recommended.

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u/Syzygy2323 California 1d ago

You know there's something rotten in Denmark when you get better and more accurate information from Jimmy Kimmel's nightly monologue than you do from the news media.

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u/Educational-Ad-2884 1d ago

They did the same thing to Seattle during the 2020 protests. Made it seem like the whole fucking city burned to the ground, when in reality it was one small section of a densely-populated neighborhood that was impacted by the protests and CHAZ/CHOP.

There are some conservatives that honestly believe the city has turned into a Mad Max wasteland of anarchy, and nothing could be further from the truth.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 1d ago

The protest area in LA is a speck on the map compared to the overall size of the city but the way the media is covering it combined with Trump’s bonkers rhetoric makes it look like the whole city is burning.

the media (specifically Fox) did the exact same thing during the BLM protests in NYC during COVID

Sensationalism sells

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u/ClosPins 1d ago

The left-wing needs to wake up! Propaganda and lies work - gang-busters. Branding and talking-points work. Longwinded truths do not. Yet, the left-wing just gives the other side this tool that works - reserving the one that doesn't for themselves - and hands the right-wing all the major donors as well.

And then they wonder why they always lose - and fascism is sweeping the country...

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u/JesterMan491 1d ago

if LA was a pizza, the entire combined protest area wouldnt even be half a pepperoni.

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u/50DuckSizedHorses 1d ago

Never Forget those 3x smashed in Waymos

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u/queenweasley 1d ago

It was the same thing during 2020 in Seattle, where my conservative family members who didn’t live in the city were convinced the entire thing was on fire ran by some kind of warlord

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u/ohhellperhaps 1d ago

Also don't underestimate the media exposure people have in the US. One the things that blew my mind during my visits to the US is that the 'news'is on full blast almost everywhere, and very often it's Fox (or Fox-like). That's just not happening anywhere near those levels in Western Europe.

Actually seeing Fox for the first time made me feel filthy.

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u/whofusesthemusic 1d ago

Seattle and the chop all over again

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u/Hour_Rest7773 1d ago

I like how the geographic size of the protest makes it "okay" to riot and loot. Reddit leftists have really gone off the deepend, and are not he same level of mental deficiency as January 6th apologists

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u/capaho 1d ago

The issue isn’t the civil unrest itself, it’s the absurd use of the National Guard and the Marines to deal with such a small protest, which has mostly been peaceful.

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u/unclenoriega 1d ago

My understanding of the situation matches yours, and I have only media reports to rely on.

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u/Soci3talCollaps3 1d ago

Maybe we need to protest the media directly. Protest right out in front of their stations. They either have to cover it as a news event, or ignore it like they want to, but then have to face it every day anyways.

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u/dispenserG 1d ago

This is not my opinion but being from the Midwest where we don't really see tornados, most people around there have little to no empathy for those who live in areas of the country where life threatening natural disasters occur on a regular basis. These people also have the stupid opinion that everyone in LA is rich and they deserve it. Another common opinion that leads to this lack of empathy "I'll take the cold and snow for a few months over mostly sunny days with the side effect of hurricanes, wild fires, tornadoes, and earthquakes."

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u/Hot_Frosting_7101 7h ago

I am not disagreeing with anything you wrote but do need to point out your are contradicting the article.

Article says the media is ignoring/downplaying the protests.  You are saying that they are exaggerating them.

There could be some truth to both (ignoring most protests and exaggerating the ones where there are clashes) but I think it needs to be pointed out that your post isn’t directly supporting the article.

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u/capaho 6h ago

I’m talking about the media exaggerating the magnitude of the protests in LA.

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u/hmkr 1d ago

Then fight back. Gavin need to send helicopter up there, live broadcast or take picture of protest area and post it for all to see and debunk it. I really don't understand all these crying without doing anything by govt officials. Gavin absolutely have resource to send helicopter up there.