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The legacy news media has been burying the public with divisive rhetoric, and the study shows this really kicked into high gear around 2013. When Youtube's homepage displays a banner about politics when you just want to watch funny cat videos, when CNN is being broadcast in airports nationwide, when even your bank has monitors broadcasting the polarizing news of the day, I'm worried that a lot of unstable people can't handle being exposed to it all the time.
The legacy news media has been burying the public with divisive rhetoric, and the study shows this really kicked into high gear around 2013. When Youtube's homepage displays a banner about politics when you just want to watch funny cat videos, when CNN is being broadcast in airports nationwide, when even your bank has monitors broadcasting the polarizing news of the day, I'm worried that a lot of unstable people can't handle being exposed to it all the time.
Tim Poole did a video about these findings in the last couple of days.
Since about 2013 the alternative media (social media, twitter especially) has basically run the nation's narrative. "Social justice" terms and ideas (which ARE far left and fringe at their core - almost like a religion) are now the "mainstream narrative..." That's a problem because it is based on theories of oppression. Of the grievance hierarchy.
We either smash the social justice grievance apparatus and put it in its place, or we become consumed by it and identity politics. The left doesn't grasp how much this stuff enabled Trump's rise in 2016. Reactionary politics are powerful.
Yes! I did not vote for Trump, but the absolute, no stop hate and attacking from the media has lead some to believe the world is literally ending. Seriously folks, look at your life and the world today. Is it really, I mean truly worse today than it was before Trump?
She ultimately believed everything she has heard and stabbed herself, so she is ultimately to blame, but the media sure stokes sh+t.
That actually makes me wonder about something. Once someone is committed to a mental hospital (or say an Alzheimer's center)-do they lose voting privileges? I would expect that our system at least is protected from allowing the mentally ill to vote. If not-it goes a long way to explaining how Hillary won the popular vote.
It's sad that people are using this woman who obviously has mental issues to make political points for their chosen leader. The woman did not just suddenly wake up one day and decide to harm herself because Trump was president. From the article --
This woman needs help, not ridicule from Trump-lovers.
I agree mental hospitals should be as prevalent now as they were 50 years ago, before libs forced America to let loony tunes like this woman out.
And before ignorant conservatives began using stupid terms like looney tunes to describe their fellow citizens. You folks are real winners.
I think that modern "mental health" practices make it too hard to keep people in institutions. I have no reason, however, to believe that this person would have been institutionalized unless she had a pattern of similarly self-destructive practices. I believe that people should dial back from the hysteria over Trump since it may convince unbalanced (though maybe not qualified for confinement) people to take irrational actions. Also on its merits this hysteria debases debate.
I see nothing wrong with using mile terms such as "looney tunes" to describe people who so overreact to political developments, especially federally. Actions at a village board meetings are more likely to affect how they live than the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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