rumitoid

[Spoiler Alert: long and methodically scrupulous attack on the Right's wacko belief's.]

Rolling Stone
Ryan Bort
Thu, January 6, 2022, 4:00 PM

The surface-level facts of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 are not very complicated. Trump hosted a well-attended rally in Washington, D.C. to stoke anger over Congress certifying the results of the previous November’s election. After weeks of telling his supporters that the election had been stolen, he gave a speech near the White House where he told his supporters to “fight like hell” and said he expected them to head to the Capitol. Some of them did, and some of them were already there, and together the two groups coalesced into a mob that broke into the building, resulting in five deaths and dozens of injuries.

In realty, this is all indisputable, but the American right-wing has been, at best, distantly orbiting reality for a while now, and over the past year conservative media, politicians, and everyday Americans have methodically constructed an alternate history of what happened on Jan. 6, one in which a deadly attempt to overthrow American democracy either wasn’t that big of a deal, or it was a big deal but it was perpetrated by a combination of left-wing activists, federal law enforcement, and Democratic politicians — anyone but Trump and his supporters, really.

These alternative facts, to borrow a phrase from the early days of the Trump administration, are immutable in the eyes of their adherents. The lack of evidence supporting them is entirely irrelevant. In a way, it’s the whole point, allowing believers to transmute “what happened” as they see fit, tailoring it to elude any inconvenient actual facts that may arise. As long as they keep their claims vague and difficult to disprove unequivocally — can we ever be totally sure absolutely nothing untoward took place during the 2020 election? — they’re as good as gospel.

“Conspiracy theories are powerful because they introduce premises that prevent evidence-based falsification,” Dolores Albarracín, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist who studies conspiracy theories, tells Rolling Stone. “For a realistic style of thinking, if there is no evidence for a belief, the lack of evidence invalidates the belief. Conspiracy theories undermine this logic and make it so that lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary proves the belief.”

It’s a fancy way of saying that conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 are here to stay. Below is a breakdown of how right-wing media and conservative politicians planted some of the most pernicious among them in the minds of millions.

[Read here where the goofy conspiracies of the Right, listed below, are painfully exposed as frauds: 1.Antifa was to blame; 2.The insurrection was peaceful; 3.The riot was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI; 4.Defeated Trump didn’t incite anything; 5.The 2020 election was stolen. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/guide-unhinged-conspiracy-theories-jan-202654551.html

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

[quote=rumitoid][Spoiler Alert: long and methodically scrupulous attack on the Right's wacko belief's.]

Rolling Stone
Ryan Bort
Thu, January 6, 2022, 4:00 PM

The surface-level facts of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021 are not very complicated. Trump hosted a well-attended rally in Washington, D.C. to stoke anger over Congress certifying the results of the previous November’s election. After weeks of telling his supporters that the election had been stolen, he gave a speech near the White House where he told his supporters to “fight like hell” and said he expected them to head to the Capitol. Some of them did, and some of them were already there, and together the two groups coalesced into a mob that broke into the building, resulting in five deaths and dozens of injuries.

In realty, this is all indisputable, but the American right-wing has been, at best, distantly orbiting reality for a while now, and over the past year conservative media, politicians, and everyday Americans have methodically constructed an alternate history of what happened on Jan. 6, one in which a deadly attempt to overthrow American democracy either wasn’t that big of a deal, or it was a big deal but it was perpetrated by a combination of left-wing activists, federal law enforcement, and Democratic politicians — anyone but Trump and his supporters, really.

These alternative facts, to borrow a phrase from the early days of the Trump administration, are immutable in the eyes of their adherents. The lack of evidence supporting them is entirely irrelevant. In a way, it’s the whole point, allowing believers to transmute “what happened” as they see fit, tailoring it to elude any inconvenient actual facts that may arise. As long as they keep their claims vague and difficult to disprove unequivocally — can we ever be totally sure absolutely nothing untoward took place during the 2020 election? — they’re as good as gospel.

“Conspiracy theories are powerful because they introduce premises that prevent evidence-based falsification,” Dolores Albarracín, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist who studies conspiracy theories, tells Rolling Stone. “For a realistic style of thinking, if there is no evidence for a belief, the lack of evidence invalidates the belief. Conspiracy theories undermine this logic and make it so that lack of evidence or evidence to the contrary proves the belief.”

It’s a fancy way of saying that conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 are here to stay. Below is a breakdown of how right-wing media and conservative politicians planted some of the most pernicious among them in the minds of millions.

[Read here where the goofy conspiracies of the Right, listed below, are painfully exposed as frauds: 1.Antifa was to blame; 2.The insurrection was peaceful; 3.The riot was a false flag orchestrated by the FBI; 4.Defeated Trump didn’t incite anything; 5.The 2020 election was stolen. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/guide-unhinged-conspiracy-theories-jan-202654551.html[/quote]

I kinda doubt many are wasting their time reading another thread on Jan. 6th……….I didn’t!

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Me neither...👍

WEBCO

This crap is what you consider news? First paragraph is already full of lies.

What part of January 6th did Ray Epps PLAY? You know, the guy caught on video twice telling people to go into the capital. Why was he removed from the FBIs most wanted list? Why hasn't he been charged? Why hasn't the January 6th commission subpoened him? He is the first person I would want to talk to.

Please answer any of these questions, if you can.

fullspinzoo

Me neither. But Rumi is not known for posting anything worth reading. At least it wasn't his needy cry for help.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Must agree, you would think that’s all that is going on in our country or around the world?? What happened did everything just stop because of the virus variants and this hot off the press BS just to stir things up?? Don’t they know the country is fed up with their lies, constant horrific debacles, no resolution to any of it or at least solutions to this virus, the border crisis, continued elevated inflation job growth down in Dec on top of what 4.5 million that quit working too?? Economy is doing what??? And taxes lost to the feds wowwww, not a concern one… These idiotic incompetent buffoons are the friggen tops in pure dereliction of duty!!!! And YES, at the extreme demise of our wonderful country!!! Now thats some fine governance half this country supposedly voted for~~~ Ha,

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

Unfortunately I started to read it. Made to the second paragraph where "indisputable facts" were obviously disputable and chose not to waste any more time.

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

Hi there! I hope you’re feeling better……….💐🌝

TexaCan Loc: Homeward Bound!

I doubt very seriously that Rumi actually reads them either! He just reads the title and posts the thread for attention and attempting to be #1. 🥴

rumitoid

Lol, of course not.

rumitoid

Who? And what difference does it make to the outrage of the attack?

rumitoid

And what has that to do with with the attack by the Right on Jan 6, the present topic? Their purpose was to undermine a fundamental process of freedom, in effect, destroy America. That is not something to put in the past and forget; a sickening and abhorrent number of the GOP still believe in "The Big Lie" which is at the root of a clear and present danger to our country.

rumitoid

Disputable, yes, if you are encased in your dittohead echo chamber of alternative facts meant to combat the inconvenient truth, the uncompromising glare of reality. Your rabbit hole will keep you safe from the Light.

rumitoid

Ever so snarky as usual. Bless your heart.

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

"resulting in five deaths..." "deadly attempt to overthrow American democracy". These are democrat talking points that are easily disputable without using "alternate facts" since they factually wrong.