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wcmagumba

(3,653 posts) Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:22 PM Dec 14

The only drones I'm hearing are the right wing media pundits "droning" on about drones...

if I happen to look at Fox or CNN or others for fun or by mistake...

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The only drones I'm hearing are the right wing media pundits "droning" on about drones... (Original Post) wcmagumba Dec 14 OP

If the drones would go into a classroom and shoot a bunch of kids, then Fox News would ignore them Walleye Dec 14 #1

They seem to be leaning into some kind of vague government failure angle. dgauss Dec 14 #2

Yeah, apparently it's turning out to be... Think. Again. Dec 14 #3

Hobgoblins Ping Tung Dec 14 #4

Walleye

(38,613 posts)

1. If the drones would go into a classroom and shoot a bunch of kids, then Fox News would ignore them

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:24 PM

Dec 14

dgauss

(1,271 posts)

2. They seem to be leaning into some kind of vague government failure angle.

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:43 PM

Dec 14

Surprise.

I'm sure that will stop after January 20th though.

Think. Again.

(21,612 posts)

3. Yeah, apparently it's turning out to be...

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:53 PM

Dec 14

...some kind of rightwing attempt to get more local Law Enforcement powers that only the federal agencies have now.

And they'll probably get the power they want.

Ping Tung

(1,757 posts)

4. Hobgoblins

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Sat Dec 14, 2024, 09:58 PM

Dec 14

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

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