• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Nice to know it’s NPR to blame for engaging in disinformation by downplaying it, not Jack Smith himself. Thanks!

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      The media has done a lot of that sort of thing since J6. Even with Donvict out of office, they’d often resort to calling it a “riot”. Probably the nicest thing you could say was that it was insurrection, it’s probably more accurate to call it an act of terrorism, and the participants that planned by bringing weapons and cable ties and so on are terrorists.

      But the pussies in the media kept shying away from calling this even an insurrection, FFS.

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      That’s not quite it either. From the transcript:

      The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without [Trump]