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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 00:53:41 +1100
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On 4/01/2025 9:31 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> 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.

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

was a right wing politician, but his ""we must educate our masters," 
line in pretty much antithetical to the kind of right-wing approach you 
seem to favour.

You seem to approve of Fox News, despite their habit of peddling 
nonsense that they known to be untrue because it boosts their audience 
numbers.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney