Thank you, mainstream media, for showing how complicit and willing you are to shill any view given by those in power.
Journalism is dead and has been for decades, sadly.
They feared satire would be dead, but the onion has been killing it
I mean, it's still pretty good in the free world. There is decay, but it's not like living in countries like Russia, USA, or China. There's a reason why Murdoch left Australia.
This was too stupid to be true, yet they ran with it. The MSM is dying, from self-inflicted wounds.
Pretty sure false headlines like this actually increase engagement, and the retraction increases engagement again. They are optimally playing the capitalism game, not dying.
Publish BS that one side of the political aisle wants to hear & they eat it up.
Publish article calling out the first story's BS, and get those on the other side of the political aisle eating it up.
Profit!
EDIT: fixed "aisle" thanks to @[email protected]. I know that's the correct word, but I dunno why I didn't think of it when writing this initially. I think my brain's slowly turning to mush as I age.
sigh
Agreed. We've turned into the headline mattering more than the content.
Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Lemmy, etc., there's comments everywhere "did you even read the article?" We're looking for the fastest confirmation bias and it's easy when it's the title.
Fox News and OAN will run with the transgender headline and be quiet at the redaction, the damage is done.
What people are slow to realize is how well the Trump administration is playing this game. The headlines about Trump suing over the 2020 election is all they wanted, people tend to give validity to something that's at the courts, regardless of the verdict.
Would like more confirmation on this than a picture of a tweet saying so.
Its very much still up, now just framed in a "maybe do your own research before believing us" kinda way lmao
Early Bulletin Said Ammunition in Kirk Shooting Engraved With Transgender, Antifascist Ideology; Some Sources Urge Caution
Thank you! That’s hardly a retraction, innit?
It's not.
But obviously their affirmation is as credible as the tweet. Surprise, surprise, narratives are trying to get the upper spin. The tribes continue. Nothing is learned; nothing is gained. It goes on...
Transgender ideology?
"You should install linux"
Authorities confused why there are so many casings inscribed with btw
Damage is done. MAGA idiots will run with this regardless. Look at the anti-vaxx crowd as examples
and all retractions and corrections will be touted as cover ups. The damage is done, innocents will be attacked over it.
Lol they will never see the retractions. I'm sure my more conservative friends will bring this up as of its gospel years after.
One of them recently referred to the Trump shooter as a blue haired lefty extremist.
Release the Epstein files.
Rumour has it the Epstein files are scrawled with transgender ideology, only one way to know for true.
Well pedo-prez is certainly enjoying a break from this right now. Once again, and for the last time, Charlie has been his useful idiot.
Rupert Murdoch deserves to be flayed alive for his crimes against humanity and its societies.
Nothing will happen as a result of this, if justice is going to be brought against the global oligarchy it won't come from our governments.
Conservatives are incapable of being shamed. They elected a pedophile and convicted felon who put together the least qualified government in history, and cheered when a South African Nazi threw out Nazi salutes behind the podium of the president. If none of that could make them feel ashamed, then falsely blaming the shooting on their current greatest enemy, trans people, has no chance.
From what I'm seeing:
1 HOUR AGO
10:39 AM EDT
Suspect's bullet casings had anti-fascist inscriptions engraved
By Danielle Abreu
Gov. Cox confirmed that investigators discovered a bolt-action rifle and scope wrapped in a towel and inscriptions engraved on bullet casings belonging to the suspect in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.
One of the inscriptions read, "Hey, fascist. Catch!" and another read, “If you read this, you are gay." A third casing had the lyrics to “Bella Ciao," an Italian folk anthem sung by the anti-fascist resistance movement during World War II.
Looks like it's possible. Sidenote, hilarious to me hearing the Utah governor read what sounds like c/196 transcriptions in such an official voice.
I mean those are definitely anti-fascist, but I don't see a damn thing that could be interpreted as transgender.
Reuters:
The bullet that killed Kirk had also been inscribed: "Notices Buldge OWO what’s this?”
Not enough people are talking about this. Makes 0 sense in context but great regardless.
Honestly, if there's gonna be engravings on bullet cases, I'd leave just three words: Change My Mind.
Rearrange My Brain
Conservatives have no shame. That's why the U.S is where it is.
I heard he said "Hilary Clinton sends her regards purple monkey dishwasher" right before he opened fire.
Regressives feel no shame. People without empathy don't feel shame. They do promote and support hate.
Damage was done and the anger it put into conservative hearts isnt going away even if they admit it was bullshit. They will justify their anger with some vague comeback and keep on hating
If they can make up shit then I can as well. The shooter was definitely a hardcore maga supporter. TRN obviously stands for Trump National Republic or something idk
WJS, is that the same newspaper that reported the 40 beheaded babies in Israel then retracted it?
Like they’d ever apologize. “Well this is what libs do anyway…”
There was one unused casing that said something like “take that fascist” so I can understand why they’d call it anti fascist. The cringe ones were just assigned to trans people who also have online cringe culture.
People skeeting stuff.
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