Discussion: 'Most Sinister' Propaganda: Examining The NRA's Ominous New Ad

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Join the NRA today, and get this shiny new revolver!

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five years ago

Its nice to know that someone is willing to leave money on her night stand.

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So, I guess the NRA thinks teachers should defend 45’s endless stream of derogatory tweets. Good to know.

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A thoroughly putrid vile hateful propaganda spewing bitch.

This will play very well to the frothing gun fetishists and terrified GOP. What are they terrified about? All they need do is tune to FOX to find out.

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As part of the “they,” I find this horrifying. I wish there was something in it to joke about, but there isn’t.

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): “I think the NRA is telling people to shoot us.”

Incitement to violence (18 US Code § 2102).

Loud and clear.

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This line worked in Mexico in 2014. Some 43 students were disappeared as pinchas antifascistas. So, yes, this labeling is both dangerous and worrisome.

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To me it just sounds hysterical and ridiculous. Even with eyes closed, it’s just silly – the whiny tone, the almost tearful bleating, the melodramatic word distortions (violence of lies…what is that?). Oh, and my movie stars? Right, like I own a stable of movie stars. Lame.

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Yeah the right never behaves badly:

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Hope the SA remembers what the SS did to them in the Night of the Long Knives. Dictatorships, once established, always turn on heir own first.

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Will the grand poobahs of civil discourse who pretended to be shocked by Donnie’s latest unhinged rant say anything about this? (Of course not.)

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Apparently it’s energy week.

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Peaceful librul protests scare the NRA.

Good to know.

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The interesting part of the article is that it appears the Clintons added another body to their body count.

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/340166-gop-investigation-sought-connection-between-clintons-emails-and-russia

However, during his investigation Smith told several of the people he interviewed in search of the emails that he was affiliated with President Trump’s former campaign adviser Mike Flynn. The operative has died since speaking to the Journal, the paper reported.

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“What it basically does is create this nightmarish image of an all-powerful ‘they,’ which would be protesters, it would be Democrats and liberals and Hollywood, the media. They’re all the same, one big monolithic entity and the goal of that entity is to destroy not just the Trump presidency, but the whole country,”

Who knew a bunch of snowflakes could be so powerful?

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Positively Nixonian. Remember when Vietnam War protesters were “bums, stomping around, tearing up the campuses,” while real Americans, or the “silent majority” saluted the flag and backed their President? “America–love it or leave it!”

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Standard Right-Wing Grift

  1. Scare the marks, usually with a scapegoat
  2. Offer a solution to the scare (at a price)
  3. Repeat, increasing the price each cycle.

NRA grift tends to be more strident than some and, since the marks are not infrequently violently paranoid, can result in actual attacks on the subject(s) of the scare but, in that case, its (individual) people not guns that shoot people and you didn’t actually tell them to shoot anyway, at least in so many words.

It’s a nasty, you could even say sociopathic, business and political model with all too many versions in these United States; e.g., https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con

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It is an excuse to use violence against us.

“They started it, their lies are violence, we were just responding to violence with violence and defending ourselves and our families.”

Not sure who said things like that first, but it reminds me of the concept that meeting the alt right with violence (aka punching nazis) is ok, because advocating for genocide should be considered violence. so violence is justified because the alt-right has engaged in violence through their speech. (I actually tend to believe that way myself, but I don’t like that I do.)

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This Dana Loesch?

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