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'You should have thought about your kids': Trump ally's ominous threat to reporter exposed
(www.rawstory.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Did anyone read the article or are we just going off a fairly misleading headline?
From the headline, it seems like a mafia style threat. From the article though:
The threat here isn't that someone is going to come after his family, it's that he might miss his flight. Which is annoying but absolutely not the same as "we know where you live and are coming after your family."
No, it was absolutely a Mafia-style threat. Here is the entire article, emphasis added:
5 people believed that they had a right to do any of that, on any level. It had nothing to do with a flight.
So it was Laura Loomer. Natch.
No, not mafia. Batshit.
Preventing someone from leaving, especially a reporter, is not a good look but the gulf between that and "we're coming for your kids" as implied by the article is huge.
Had the article headlined with reporter accosted, physically stopped etc, totally fine. But this clickbait crap is nonsense.
“What he did,” though, was just take notes as a reporter. He took notes then tried to leave with them, where he was accosted and threatened and told to delete the notes. When he continued to express a desire to leave and mentioned his kids, that comment came out.
I agree that it’s not as bad as the headline makes it sound. But it also doesn’t seem like the reporter did anything that he shouldn’t have done which would have given him reason to be accosted…
Charitable reading, this was just an off-the-cuff comment at the maturity level of, “I know you are but what am I?” where the aide used a quick comeback without thinking much about her words.
Oh absolutely, he shouldn't have been accosted etc. But I really hate this clickbait nonsense, it's irresponsible and part of why things are as bad as they are. Most people will look at the headline and think these people really are targeting reporters' children etc. It's lazy, irresponsible and is helping make politics as bad as they are.
Lemmy LOVES to be outraged. If the truth needs to be stretched into unrecognizable rage-bait, all the better.
And judging from the downvotes, lemmy doesn't like being being reminded of this fact.
So you support people detaining journalists against their will and forcing them to delete their notes.
Or did you not read what happened?
No. Not at all.
But to pretend that they were threatening the reporter's family is disingenuous and makes it look like the media is blatantly spinning a story. This story's headline and others like it are part of why people don't trust the media, which is a dangerous state of affairs.
Also, they seem to think downvotes matter.
You aren't saving yours for a cash prize at the end?
I was saving them up to have one giant relevant post. Sadly, that’s not ping to happen now.
I love that someone was so annoyed at either the idea that lemmy is addicted to outrage or making fun of downvotes that they downvoted your innocuous comment.
Some fragile folks out there I guess?
It’s just how it is here. I barely take any of it seriously at all. When people go so far out of their way to be outraged by everything, there’s nothing you can ever say that will set them at ease.
They have no understanding whatsoever of any nuance at all.
So I just make fun of them.
It just breaks my heart a little.
Places like this could be so awesome and so conducive to good public discourse but instead we get, well, this.
Yep. The inmates run the asylum here.