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From: Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:31:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:58:08 -0500, bitrex wrote:

> On 1/2/2025 8:53 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>> On 2/01/2025 10:24 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
>>> On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag
>>>> inthat his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are
>>>> trusting the legacy media. This is why it's so important to have
>>>> citizen journalists mobilised and fact-checking what's really going
>>>> on when these incidents occur. I don't suppose the rather
>>>> embarrassing presence of the flag would have been revealed otherwise.
>>>
>>> For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments
>>> were using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
>>>
>>> Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
>>> of terrorism from us.
>>>
>>> So which is it?
>> 
>> No point in asking Cursitor Doom - he just looks for fatuous nonsense
>> and posts it here whenever he finds it.
>> 
>> 
> Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they
> see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit at the
> wall and see what sticks.
> 
> Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et al
> who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi are
> like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand us!"

Indeed. Right-wing parties try to focus on issues that are of concern to 
the voters. Left-wing parties focus on deciding which issues *should* be 
of concern to voters.