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I've had that stupid motherfucking conspiracist, Zeus, on ignore for a while now but saw some of his insanity yesterday because he was being quoted. This board has woken up to a lot of the misinformation that gets spread around and has gotten better at identifying it, but that bullshit still gets floated around a good bit. That said, I realize that a lot of us have also taken the bait and reposted shit a time or two, including myself. But we also have posters, like Zeus, who are habitually guilty of it, whether they're idiotic rubes or deliberate shit smearers. Either way, I think it's about time that there be some retribution for pieces of shit who insist on posting garbage lies over and over again. This NYTimes article mentions at least a couple of the LIES that Zeus posted yesterday. This shit is dangerous, destabilizing, and has gone on far too long. Fuckheads like Zeus deserve no mercy and need to get the boot, because consistently reposting lies is not a legitimate form of political discourse on discussion board full of college-educated adults who happen also to be football fans. Fake Images and Conspiracy Theories Swirl Around L.A. Protests Disinformation spreading on social media platforms has stoked an already tense situation. Misleading photographs, videos and text have spread widely on social media as protests against immigrant raids have unfolded in Los Angeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories and expressing support for President Trump’s actions. The flood of falsehoods online appeared intended to stoke outrage toward immigrants and political leaders, principally Democrats. They also added to the confusion over what exactly was happening on the streets, which was portrayed in digital and social media through starkly divergent ideological lenses. Many posts created the false impression that the entire city was engulfed in violence, when the clashes were limited to only a small part. There were numerous scenes of protesters throwing rocks or other objects at law enforcement officers and setting cars ablaze, including a number of self-driving Waymo taxis. At the same time, false images spread to revive old conspiracies that the protests were a planned provocation, not a spontaneous response to the immigration raids. The confrontation escalated on Monday as new protests occurred and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced — on X — that he was mobilizing 700 Marines from a base near Los Angeles to guard federal buildings. They are expected to join 2,000 members of the California National Guard whom Mr. Trump ordered deployed without the authorization of the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, who normally has command of the troops. The latest deployments prompted a new wave of misleading images to spread — some purporting to show Marines and the military service’s weapons in action. One was a still from “Blue Thunder,” a 1983 action-thriller about a conspiracy to deprive residents of Los Angeles of their civil rights. It features a climatic dogfight over the city’s downtown. Darren L. Linvill, a researcher at Clemson University’s Media Forensics Hub, said conservatives online were “building up the riots in a performative way” to help bolster Mr. Trump’s claims that Los Angeles had been taken over by “violent, insurrectionist mobs.” Dr. Linvill said the posts were also “a bit self-fulfilling.” “As they direct attention to it,” he said, “more protesters will show up.” James Woods, the actor who has become known for spreading conspiracy theories, used his account on X to rail against the state’s elected officials, especially Mr. Newsom, a Democrat. He also reposted a fabricated quote, attributed to former President Barack Obama, discussing a secret plot to impose socialism on the country, as well as a video of burning police cars that was from 2020. An innocuous photograph of a pallet of bricks, actually posted on the website of a building materials wholesaler in Malaysia, was cited as proof that the protests were organized by nonprofit organizations supported by George Soros, the financier who, to the feverishly conspiratorial right, has become a mastermind of global disorder. “It’s Civil War!!” an account on X wrote on Saturday, claiming that the bricks had been placed near the offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for “Democrat militants.” X posted a Community Note pointing out that the photograph had nothing to do with the protests, but it still was seen more than 800,000 times. It was also widely reposted, including by several seemingly inauthentic accounts in Chinese. The online trope dates at least to the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. It reappeared in 2022 after a conspiratorial post by Representative Lauren Boebert, a Colorado Republican who suggested that bricks for a paving project near Capitol Hill were intended for violent protests after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. “These days, it feels like every time there’s a protest, the old clickbaity ‘pallets of bricks’ hoax shows up right on cue,” the Social Media Lab, a research center at the Toronto Metropolitan University, wrote on Bluesky. “You know the one, photos or videos of bricks supposedly left out to encourage rioting. It’s catnip for right-wing agitators and grifters.” It also fits into the narrative that protests against government policies are somehow inauthentic. On his own platform, Truth Social, Mr. Trump also suggested that the protesters were “Paid Insurrectionists!” Numerous posts echoed unsubstantiated claims that the protests were the work of Mr. Soros as well as local nongovernment organizations or Democratic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass. Some posts disparaging the protests were shared by accounts with deceptive handles that closely resembled those of official government sources or news organizations. Mike Benz, a conspiracy-minded influencer on X who last year claimed that the Pentagon used the pop star Taylor Swift as part of a psychological operation to undercut Mr. Trump, advanced an outlandish theory that the mayor had links to the Central Intelligence Agency and had helped start riots in the city where she lives. He based that simply on Ms. Bass’s role as a board member for the National Endowment for Democracy, the congressionally mandated organization formed during the Reagan administration to promote democratic governance around the world. Not surprisingly, perhaps, the theme was echoed by accounts across social media linked to Russia, which often amplifies content that discredits the United States. The Kremlin and its supporters have long accused Mr. Soros or the United States government of covertly sponsoring “color revolutions” to overthrow governments — from the Arab Spring countries swept up by mass street protests in 2011 to Ukraine. “It is nationwide conspiracy of liberals against not only Trump but against American people in general,” Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent nationalist in Russia, wrote on X on Sunday. Disinformation in situations like these spreads so quickly and widely that efforts to verify facts cannot keep up, said Nora Benavidez, senior counsel at Free Press, an advocacy organization that studies the intersection of media, technology and the law. She described it as part of “a much longer effort to delegitimize peaceful resistance movements.” “Information warfare is always a symptom of conflict, stoked often by those in power to fuel their own illiberal goals,” she said. “It confuses audiences, scares people who might otherwise have empathy for the cause and divides us when we need solidarity most.”
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@immamac Hey Boss, I know you said we should just put people on ignore and not harass them, but could you make an exception just this once for our buddy here, Zeus? Please + thank you.
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Nah, that was 1986. Clifford Antone was being held in the minimum security federal prison here at the time and helped organize a benefit concert with Willie as the headliner to help raise funds for the community. True story. Good guy.
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You should've seen what it looked like after Led Zep came to town.
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I'd been out of town for a week or so and got back Saturday but was too lazy to restock the fridge, so this morning I drove across town to Starbucks and the hail/wind damage around town is pretty significant: windows out in several places, signs fallen over, pieces of metal roofs, power lines down, couple of uprooted trees, broken branches, etc. Fortunately, the hail only reached about a quarter-size diameter in my part of town. Still, it was blowing sideways and crashing against my windows. I hate it when that happens. A few more photos of damage stolen from local FB accounts:
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Had a helluva storm blow through yesterday evening. Torrential winds, hail, and rain that lasted all of 10-15 minutes. Quite a bit of damage in the downtown area. Fortunately, my neighborhood was spared the worst of it.
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@BurntOrange&White One big part of the issue is the disparity between the behavior of cops when progressives or poor people protest, compared to when right-wingers do. They don't pull this kind of shit on white goppers.
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So, last night, I stayed up watching the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles, covering the protests. According the anchors, the thousands of legit protesters had gone home, but a 100 or so shitheads decided to stick around and cause trouble. How the fuck are "the Democrats" responsible for or behold to thuggish dickheads? "The Democrats" aren't leading or organizing these spontaneous protests. "The Democrats" obciousky disagree with the regime's gestapo tactics, but they aren't doing shit. Why aren't you laying blame at the Trump regime for provoking all this?
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Wall Street Fucking Journal Bill Fucking Krystol
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The cop took direct aim at this Australian news crew.
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The 1990s was at the request of the CA governor at the time. The last time it happened without the consent of a governor was the 1960s.
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The last time the National Guard was federalized and deployed without the consent of a state’s governor was before you or I were born. So, yeah, this time it’s different.
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And also recall that 1-2 months ago, in an interview, when asked directly if he was obligated to uphold the Constitution, he said: "I don't know." Never mind that oath of office stuff.
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Close your eyes, can't happen here Big Bro' on white horse is near The hippies won't come back, you say Mellow out or you will pay Mellow out or you will pay California Über Alles California Über Alles Über Alles California Über Alles California Now it is 1984 Knock-knock at your front door It's the suede denim secret police They have come for your uncool niece Come quietly to the camp You'd look nice as a drawstring lamp Don't you worry, it's only a shower For your clothes, here's a pretty flower Released 46 years ago this month
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Bio of thread author: Marquette Prof studying U.S. and comparative civil-military relations, political violence & armed forces in democracies and non-democracies. https://bsky.app/profile/risabrooks12.bsky.social/post/3lr4a4woqts25
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