It absolutely is absurd melodrama to claim, as AOC did, that half of Congress barely avoided being executed en masse
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1348426390518030336
And @ryangrim apparently doesn't understand that this kind of wild exaggeration about the events of Wednesday is exactly what's going to be cited to justify the new domestic War on Terror
Should be obvious: if you tell the public through dramatized propagandistic repetition that something extreme happened which did not in fact happen, the public is going to be more willing to accept whatever extreme remedial counter-measures are proposed
As the mythology around this event crystalizes, it's going to be taken as conventional wisdom that hundreds of legislators narrowly escaped mass execution. To what end do you think that mythology is going to be deployed. The ongoing corporate censorship purge may be a clue
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