Sigh. It's seemingly ever fcking day where a distorted, context-less RW clip goes super-viral, getting shared by both LWers & RWers alike. It's depressing as hell to see it happen over & over again. This site is just a magnet for dishonesty & it feels quite helpless to stop it.
The context of this clip, which is from 2020 (that's resurfaced as if it was said today) was basically a(n inartful) point about the reach of media today- 'people have cellphones to film things and those images get spread worldwide on social media'.
He was very obviously not saying that George Floyd had more of a worldwide impact than MLK, as the bad faith RW bullshit wants you to believe. But like a few 100 people will see this context & the original has already been RTed like 10,000 times, so *chuckles* everything is cool!
The RW thrives off lying. If you see a sub-10 second clip of a comment put out by a partisan source, it's almost 100% certain that it's either hard edited or clipped of context. You don't have to be a genius to figure it out. But people just want to be lied to.
They want to spread the outrage bate. They dont give a fuck whether it's accurate or not. The amount of ppl who stop & think, 'hmm this seemingly outrageous clip sounds a little too good to be true' is infinitesimal. They do not care- it confirms their biases. Thats good enough.
And here's more of the context in video form. But it doesn't matter. The damage is done.

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It's pretty easily explainable, Glem. It's blindingly obvious to anyone with half an ounce of critical thinking skills that the MAGA RW is not 'anti-war', they just see Putin's Russia as a white, Christian authoritarian ally against the Dems (& the West). Image
Also, I am a serious anti-war/anti-imperialist activist and I am, yet again, caping hard for an imperialist Russia (whom I do NOT support) invading its neighbor. The Dems who say this is wrong? They're actually bloodthirsty Neocons. Let the imperial power invade...for peace!
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Imagine how furiously angry Glem would be if some other 'journalist' didn't disclose that they had financial incentive tied to the guy who they were writing about. Why, it's almost as if his 'everyone is corrupted but me, the last true principled man' is utter hogwash.
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Here's @mtracey:

"Haha low energy rioting, amirite?"

2 minutes later, a brief moment of realization that he goofed up.

"uhh ok I uhh guess it's just a little more energetic now."
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