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  "text": "| sub | archive |\n|-----|---------|\n| `r/TheTrumpZone` | https://archive.ph/6CpFf |\n| `r/AskThe_Donald` | https://archive.ph/K9JiF |\n| `r/conservatives` | https://archive.ph/aM3H1 |\n| `r/TimPool` | https://archive.ph/pG2V5 |\n| `r/Republican` | https://archive.ph/CvH8L |\n| `r/republicans` | https://archive.ph/6CpFf |\n\n(You can [find the links](https://i.imgur.com/5egNPpt.png) to the actual threads in the archives)\n\nThe meme is ostensibly about Joe Walsh. It compares two tweets of his - one from 2018 and one from two weeks ago. The \"President\" in the first one is Donald Trump. The \"President\" in the second one is Joe Biden. Both presidents called a journalist \"son of a bitch\". In contrasting the tweets, `r/TheTrumpZone` suggests that Walsh is a hypocrite. But more importantly, `r/TheTrumpZone` wants you to believe that Biden and Trump are the same. This an attempt to whitewash Trump.\n\nIn case you missed it: During a recent White House press conference, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy trolled President Joe Biden with the question \"Do you think inflation is a political liability?\" Unfortunately, Biden took the bait. He called Doocy a \"stupid son of a bitch\". Doocy got exactly what he wanted: the opportunity to feign indignation and play the victim.\n\nIs it disappointing that Biden was so easily baited? Yes. Yes, it is. If Reddit has taught us anything, it's to never give the trolls what they want. They want to provoke you into offending them so they can report you for incivility. They want you to provide them with the ammunition they can shoot you down with. In this case, sadly, it worked. Fox News - and all of \"conservative\" Reddit - cried bloody murder for over a week.\n\nBut compare this one incident to the innumerable incidents under Trump! Trump repeatedly called the media \"enemy of the people\". He insulted and disparaged the media for over four years. Not just one journalist and not just once. All of the media. Day after day after day. Trump constantly labelled reporting of facts he didn't like as \"fake news\". He systematically alienated his followers from factually accurate sources and drove them into the arms of deceitful conspiracy theorists. Attacks against the media on the scale Trump practiced amount to attacks against democracy itself.\n\nTrump's incitement could also be described as \"stochastic terrorism\". The situation for journalists got so bad that verbal attacks by Trump followers became routine at Trump rallies. Several violent attacks happened as well. The infamous t-shirt slogan \"Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required\" perfectly summarizes the climate Trump created.\n\nAnd while Trump drove a wedge between his followers and the media, he lied. Over and over and over. In the beginning of his presidency, he lied once or twice per day. By the end, he lied dozens of times on a daily basis. The Washington Post tried to keep a tally of Trump's lies but eventually had to give up at around [30,000](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/). Their fact checkers simply got overwhelmed.\n\nNot only did Trump incessantly lie, he got away with it too. He got away with it because his followers had cut themselves off from any media that would have allowed them to fact-check his lies. He got away with it because his followers were no longer able to separate fact from fiction.\n\nBiden's hot mic moment isn't comparable to what Trump did. Not even remotely. Claiming that Biden's anger at a troll and Trump's systematic sustained attacks against the media are alike - as `r/TheTrumpZone` does here - is a false equivalency.\n\nAnd it is a lie. `r/TheTrumpZone` wants you to believe that Trump's belligerent rhetoric was acceptable, defensible and no big deal. They do so by pointing at Biden and falsely insinuating that he is just as bad. `r/TheTrumpZone` is trying to normalize Trump's anti-democratic transgressions.\n\n`r/TheTrumpZone` lies. Again. As usual. As always. As their namesake.\n\n`r/TheTrumpZone` needs to be banned. Trump was kicked off social media after all. So why are the little wannabe-trumps still allowed to lie around here?\n\n----\n\n\"Clown world\" (emojified in the `r/TheTrumpZone` thread title as 🤡🌏) is a [neo-Nazi dog whistle](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Clown_World) btw.",
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  "datetime": "2022-02-04",
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• Entry ID: 961
• Repository: Axioma AXP
• Dataset: arrmlet/reddit_dataset_36
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