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Ilikepurple

(792 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 12:07 AM Oct 2025

Here is another misleading headline.

Not your fault Rhiannon, but nobody is getting called out, as in being criticized for their behavior. Are protestors really opponents in the standard political sense of the word. It’s just trolling. Even their expert says that the administration uses the trolling defense that these aren’t serious. I can’t but help but think the use of “call out” instead of “troll” or more literally “shit post” is to soften the sophomoric stance this administration has taken to on social media. We on the left aren’t immune to this either, but the legacy media has made an art to amplifying or minimizing factual content through headlines and I see its effects on those I know who are just headline readers. It might be splitting hairs, but many of our elections are decided on where the hair is split.

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