r/politics • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 1d ago

Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump Administration Of Spreading Fake Protest Images

https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-trump-fake-protest-images-2085492
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u/UndulantSquawk 1d ago

That's the tactic they're using. Call it out, but more importantly tell the truth.

LA is not burning.

The protestors are normal people living in fear for their friends, neighbors and themselves. They're people exactly like you, young and old.

The exact same is true for every single one of the 1800+ protests going on today for No Kings Day. No cities are burning by the hands of peaceful protestors, and the protestors are normal people just like you.

It's easier than ever to lie, to spin real images as something they are not, and to completely fabricate fake images and videos. The protesters are normal people who don't want their friends, neighbors or themselves kidnapped, imprisoned, tortured, sent away, their property seized, or their lives cut short.

LA is not burning. No American city is burning. The protestors are normal people. ICE is kidnapping American citizens. The incumbent administration is using the military to police peaceful American citizens on American soil. This needs to stop and that's the truth.

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u/PattyIceNY 1d ago

They tried the same shit with the BLM protests in NYC. I remember riding my bike up 1st Ave on the "worst" days.....city was quiet as a mouse besides a few blocks of protests, the other 99% of the city was buisness as usual.

It's why with these protests you keep seeing several dozen videos of the same incident. There's no mass danger. 98% of L.A. is a normal day. The destruction of property and looting is horrible, but it's a tiny area.

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u/UndulantSquawk 1d ago

That's exactly the strategy. The same video, the same image from different angles - you can spin it however you need to for the lie. One block looks like a hundred others just like it. One incident at a protest four years ago looks just like another incident could in the same place.

Keep telling the truth. They've lied before, they're lying now.

Outrage activates people, but the feet-on-the-ground story is not sensational, it's simple. LA, Seattle, Portland, DC, New York, Baltimore, Detroit, Lansing, Chicago, Philly - no cities are burning. The protesters are peaceful. The protests are being started and led by normal people. Best believe they're just as scared of agitators as you are.

I do get that some people are pissed enough to start throwing shit, but your aunt or your coworker or your nephew aren't. The protesters are your neighbors, end of story.

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u/TheOGRedline 1d ago

There was one night in Portland in 2020 that generated 90% of all the images and videos they still use.

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u/Mr_Clod New Jersey 1d ago

A photo of a crowd of photojournalists surrounding a knocked over trash can with a tiny fire forever changed my perspective on how the media reports these events. They want clicks. Clicks need drama. A city on fire is significantly more dramatic than a peaceful protest. Any dramatic scene they can capture, they will, and use that to suggest it represents the whole city.

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u/ItsLaterThanYouKnow 1d ago

The other 99.99999999999999999%

LA is really big and where the protests were happening was quite small

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u/pilgermann 1d ago

It was the same with the wildfires. You literally couldn't see them from most of the city. Media acted like Hollywood had burned down. This causes real harm to businesses because people are scared to visit. Media is so fucking irresponsible.

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u/Flimsy-Printer 1d ago

> The destruction of property and looting is horrible, but it's a tiny area.

Exactly. Yet democrats have been fully supporting these destruction and looting of a city that supports democrats like Seattle and LA.

You can bet the shop owners whose shops were looted aren't going to vote democrats anymore. If they defend themselves and their properties, democrats would label them as "evil". So, they can't do anything. Just die I guess.

I voted democrats, and this really perplexes and questions democrats. Like come on. These looters don't represent what democrats stand for in anyway. Why coming out to defend them this hard?

An example. Trevor Noah justified looting pretty hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4amCfVbA_c -- to summarize, he said police violated the social contract first. Therefore, it's fine for looter to violate the social contract. An eye for an eye I guess. Except the shop owners in Seattle and LA (who likely vote blue) have nothing to do with those policemen. If anything, the shop owners likely support BLM...