• joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    When you scramble this many ghouls to check every single detail of a person’s life history, you can make even the most well-adjusted person seem like a complete fringe lunatic. This is a concerted effort to make this guy seem as deranged as possible, just a wild crazy man, or a poor victim of online radicalization, depending on what tone you want for your think piece.

    You can turn the ultimate protest into a cautionary tale about the seductive rhetoric of the violent online left or a mental health awareness month-style unheard cry for help.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      When you scramble this many ghouls to check every single detail of a person’s life history, you can make even the most well-adjusted person seem like a complete fringe lunatic.

      Or just drag the truth out like taffy - a visit to a music festival becomes “attended orgies regularly” while enrollment in a university becomes “taught by Marxist professors”. Or outright lie.

      This is a concerted effort to make this guy seem as deranged as possible

      Curious to see they’ve lost all the pictures of him in a military uniform. I’ve never seen the media describe a soldier’s death with so few pictures in full dress.

    • EelBolshevikism [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      Every detail I’ve heard about this man makes him seem more reasonable and relatable. I don’t mean that it isn’t an effective way to silence him, just that even under piles of selective bias he still sounds cool