The propaganda machine vilifying protesters should be a wake-up call to how manufactured public opinion truly is

Jul 31, 2020 11:07 AM

Quomp

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6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Well, im sure the bottles, molotov cocktails, and improvised explosives had nothing to do with it.

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 30

I see your source must be Fox News. Aside from the bottles, that shit ain’t happening. Calling run of the mill firecrackers ‘IED’s is silly.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 7

Yeah you should have thought about the propaganda machine when you orgasmed at the Patriot Act

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

stop resisting!

6 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 3

Man, she should have stopped resisting

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is so sick.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh hey, usersub is back to being a politics-only shitshow. I miss the 29th.

6 years ago | Likes 98 Dislikes 150

Fuckin a. this shitshow ain’t changing hearts nor minds. I’m gonna vote him out. Circle jerk begone.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

6 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 5

The world is a shit show; do something about it or get used to it.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 10

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6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

human rights, not politics

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

Post better content. The only way to drown out politics is to post something that’ll get more votes.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

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6 years ago | Likes 49 Dislikes 8

You can go to iFunny where people love angry orange thing.

6 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 7

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6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 4

The impotent whingeing of a privileged asshat for whom the fight for civil liberty and human rights is just an annoyance

6 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 16

Imgur isn’t a battleground for civil liberties, no minds are getting changed in this circle jerk.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 16

If not in public discourse, then where? We should have peaceful protests. ...wait....

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Saya the circle jerking whiner.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Some might be. For instance, until that comment, some people might have been under the presumption that you had something of value to say

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 3

I’ve never seen it happen, not on Imgur or any other platform. Ite possible I gues. My experience is minds are changed offline.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I am fucking done with having this shit forced down my throat 24/7 with no way of unwinding from it. I want a funny place, not this.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

There is only so much fucking aggravating shit a person can look at before they fucking snap. And I'm goddamn reaching that point.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

Then go snap, snowflake. There's real issues in the world that aren't your privileged ass bitching about website content.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Snowflake, huh? My God you sure are great at arguing. If everyone on your side is like this, I'm suddenly understanding a lot of things.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Such a snowflake.

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MLK marched and protested for 15 years

6 years ago | Likes 60 Dislikes 4

Oh yeah, the whole "you must ONLY protest peacefully or it's INVALID and NOTHING WILL HAPPEN and you DESERVE FOR NOTHING TO HAPPEN" thing 1/

6 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 3

is 100% propaganda and rewriting history to try and stop people from doing things that get results that people in power don't want 2/2

6 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 3

Considering that the first American protesters were waving confederate flags and ARs to fight masks, the irony is palpable.

6 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 3

What exactly are you referring to?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So you wouldn't say the people fighting for independence from the British count then?

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

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6 years ago (deleted Aug 21, 2021 5:29 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Can’t be assed to fix autocorrects

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 16

Bootlicker.

6 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 10

One would think after posting a comment like that your head would implode due to the obvious vacuum inside it. But here you are...

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 6

If they HAD been trying to burn down a building for 60 days, do you honestly think they wouldn’t have actually done it by now? It isn’t hard

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 7

So the firebombs & ieds mean nothing ?

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

There hasn’t been a single firebomb or ‘IED’. When your boi Tucker Carlson rants about that nonsense he’s referring to fucking firecrackers.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 4

A: Hyperbolic bullshit, B: the point of protests is that they are demanding a change being ignored, you bootlicking fuckwit

6 years ago | Likes 86 Dislikes 30

What change exactly are they wanting?

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 4

Accountability for police brutality and innocent murders that are violently protected by a broken justice system that targets minorities.

6 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 6

So burning things down is the way? Who knew? BTW your tolerance and rational disagreement is showing.

6 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 42

Probably because he's literally spreading lies about the movement to discredit it, because that hasn't been happening.

6 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 14

Dude... I'm on protesters side but be correct about it. Stop gaslighting. Everyone knows there have been attacks as well. Mistakes were >

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

made & majority of ppl is still on protesters side. But if you try to pretend nothing happened that's repulsive man..

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

No. No one is saying that. Which is why most of the organizing is peaceful. But god forbid we focus on the actual issue at hand. I want to

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

hear one of you shit brained dip shits say how you honestly feel. Which is that years and years of being racist and intolerant is justified

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

because a small percentage of the protestors are angry enough to take it to that level. Because that's how you sound when you focus on the

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Please show me any evidence of arson against federal buildings, and I'll go through my account history and downvote every post.

6 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 8

Great, one count of criminal activity in April that has its perpetrators arrested so the peaceful protests could continue.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

This one is untrustworthy. It is from the agents who are perpetrating violence and the first thing it says is that they were being attacked.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

This is propaganda designed to warp public opinion.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

It also makes no mention of tear gas, rubber bullets, or the federal incitement of violence on many other occasions.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 7

These are not protests. You have the right to peaceably assemble. Once you start to hurt ppl or destroy property it’s no longer peacefull

6 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 43

Must be why the police are actively destroying ppls cars and have undercovers smashing windows to give them an excuse to escalate

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

You have ignored the 59.8 days of peaceful protests to focus on the bare minimum of property damage.

6 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 10

Day 59 https://youtu.be/UwjT8vulWrc

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Spraypaint doesn't call for excessive violence, especially when the spraypaint was used because of excessive violence. Do you have a brain?

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

Day 58 https://youtu.be/HJGt-yq6G0M

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 14

Wow, I see that massive cardboard federal building.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 7

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? That's somehow like promoting that burning or destroying stuff is okay... Not really cool.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You have the privilege of ignoring this shit. How about Breonna Taylor's family?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You just assumed who I am. And that I'm 'ignoring this shit'. bc I don't support burning stuff? Is that your mindset?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Authorities killing innocent people is less okay, and if nothing is going to be done when people ask nicely then it escalates.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I agree. But burning buildings will sooner or later kill innocent as well. One side killing innocent is not permission for the others to >

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

endanger or kill other innocent ppl as well. No matter what side, it's never okay. There is a difference between graffiti or taking down >

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you around people trying to start fires?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 13

I'm not, are you?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 5

Nope I wouldn't even go around Portland its nothing but trouble people attacking the court house.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 7

Hi. No it isn’t. It’s literally (literally!) 1 block downtown where these mostly peaceful demonstrations are taking place.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 3

Funny, because those people in the streets are parents and grandmas. It's the police who have been beating people and snatching off the st.

6 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 7

It doesn't matter if there moms if there standing in front of people throwing fireworks there still in a riot protecting the violent rioters

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

And they will be treated just the same as the violent rioters it's just that simple.

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