astroPug<p>CNN amuses and confuses me.</p><p>They’re having a misinformation report coming out on Sunday that covers January 6th and what they call a “Luigi Mangione fan club”</p><p>Based on the interview with the reporter, he has made a few questionable assumptions:</p><p>1. Luigi support comes from the left exclusively<br>2. The sympathy for Luigi is equal to support for January 6 insurrection, and hypocritical. </p><p>I don’t think those are correct assumptions, frankly. </p><p>We have predicted for some time that if we don’t stop health insurance from bankrupting Americans when they’re most vulnerable, we will see vigilantism. </p><p>I think the desperation of the sick and poor supersedes the delusion of people who think our system of voting is bullshit just because they lost.</p><p>I cannot agree with the implied equal sign that reporter put between these two groups.</p><p> I think they’ve been told to do journalism in a certain way that is almost more abstractly mathematical than fact based. Kind of more “let’s cut that baby in half, cuz that’s fair.”</p><p> According to that school of journalism, It’s always balanced, it’s always half, and if it isn’t, then we shall make it so. </p><p>What a world. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CNN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CNN</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Strange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Strange</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/HealthInsurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthInsurance</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UsPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UsPol</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a></p>