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The Demented - and Selective - Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents For Mass Shootings
Greenwald Substack ^ | May 15, 2022 | Glenn Greewald

Posted on 05/19/2022 12:30:10 PM PDT by siunevada

All ideologies spawn psychopaths who kill innocents in its name. Yet only some are blamed for their violent adherents: by opportunists cravenly exploiting corpses while they still lie on the ground.

(Excerpt) Read more at greenwald.substack.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; bloggers; clickbait; crime
If you are unfamiliar with Greenwald, he is that very rare bird, an honest Lefty. He's a lawyer and writes like it, laying out his case and citing his evidence. It's a fairly long read.
1 posted on 05/19/2022 12:30:10 PM PDT by siunevada
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To: siunevada

The game is called politics. Both sides do it. It’s not particularly surprising, nor is it going to go away.

Each side will use everything at its disposal to tar and feather the other one with.


2 posted on 05/19/2022 12:42:19 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: aquila48

One California critter sent out a fund raiser right afterward based on this. El Sicko!


3 posted on 05/19/2022 12:46:02 PM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: aquila48
Each side will use everything at its disposal to tar and feather the other one with.

That is patently not true. There is a reason that one side---not that of conservatives---consistently, determinedly, and relentlessly goes home winners.

They fight, they rage, they battle, they win.

4 posted on 05/19/2022 12:47:30 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: siunevada

This is a brilliant smackdown of the sycophantic left and the despicable tricks they play when a mass shooter pop off.

Glenn also supported people who rejected the vaccine or questioned its efficiency.

Not all voices from the left are devoid of reason.

I may not always agree with Glenn or Jimmy Dore, but I will at least listen to their side.


5 posted on 05/19/2022 12:53:13 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....!)
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To: Fightin Whitey

“They fight, they rage, they battle, they win.”

Well that part is true. We should emulate them.


6 posted on 05/19/2022 12:54:51 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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I have never understood the freak out humans have at certain kinds of events. Non stop perpetual coverage for this when more people than this are killed every weekend in Chicago alone. Its like when 200 people did in a plane wreck with 24/7 coverage where people die in horrific car wrecks every hour of every day


7 posted on 05/19/2022 12:58:20 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: siunevada

The issue with mass shootings is mental illness, not political affiliation. The worst mass killings in American history have not involved guns. Think of 9-11, and then there was some guy who blew up a school, in New England somewhere I think.


8 posted on 05/19/2022 1:01:01 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Dr. Franklin

Bath Michigan. ‘20s. Kehoe.


9 posted on 05/19/2022 1:33:23 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: siunevada
If you are unfamiliar with Greenwald, he is that very rare bird, an honest Lefty.

Yes. His long Wiki bio is fascinating:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald

He has gone from being Rachel Maddow's hero to being a frequent guest of Tucker Carlson. He has impressed and offended almost everyone. He won't fit on a bumper sticker.

10 posted on 05/19/2022 1:40:04 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: Dr. Franklin
The issue with mass shootings is mental illness, not political affiliation.

And there is a hell of a lot of mental illness. The prevalence of schizophrenia in the United States is about 0.5%. That's one person in two hundred.

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/schizophrenia

11 posted on 05/19/2022 1:52:25 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: aquila48

Yes both sides use political issues to fundraise. Only one side is vicious enough to go for the jugular every. Single. Time. And with lies!


12 posted on 05/19/2022 2:01:21 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Fightin Whitey

“They fight, they rage, they battle, they win.”

I agree that the left has no shame about exploiting any kind of tragedy for political gain, whereas the right is reluctant to engage like that and is not very good at projecting the feigned outrage that the left has perfected. But remember, this only works because the left has the unwavering support of the legacy media.


13 posted on 05/19/2022 2:23:24 PM PDT by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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