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It’s the child actor thing all over again.
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Welcome, Parkland shooting survivors, to the ugly world of politics in 2018.
In the aftermath of last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Fla., some of the most powerful testimonies have come from the teenagers who survived the rampage. They have repeatedly detailed their harrowing experience to national news networks, many calling for stricter gun control laws while decrying President Trump for not doing enough to protect students. Others have wept with grief while telling their stories again and again.
The students have become a mobilizing force unlike any seen after previous mass shootings, planning marches and rallies in Florida and Washington — all while mourning the friends they’ve so recently lost.
They have also become a target of right-wing smears and innuendo.
Some prominent figures in the right-wing media are suggesting that the students are making it all up, or that the children are paid actors or that their talking points have been manufactured by public relations experts on the left.
An aide to a Florida legislator was even fired Tuesday after claiming two survivors who spoke to CNN were not students, but instead “actors that travel to various crisis when they happen.”
Donald Trump Jr. liked two tweets on Tuesday that peddled a conspiracy theory about a 17-year-old survivor of the Parkland school shooting, suggesting that he was “coached” to propagate an anti-Trump narrative by his father who is a retired FBI agent.
It’s the child actor thing all over again.
I would think it would be easy to research whether these are actual students or actors.
I would think it would be easy to research whether these are actual students or actors.
The people these things are aimed at do not do research. Nor do they care about facts.
They’re actual students. You don’t need to research it. Any conspiracy this large would require the cooperation of so many parties that it would break down due to its sheer complexity.
It’s the child actor thing all over again.
You seem to be referring to a past incident of which I can’t seem to recall.
They’re actual students. You don’t need to research it. Any conspiracy this large would require the cooperation of so many parties that it would break down due to its sheer complexity.
That didn’t stop people from believing the Sandy Hook one.
It’s the child actor thing all over again.
You seem to be referring to a past incident of which I can’t seem to recall.
Sandy Hook.
I ignore the conspiracy nut bars. They don’t deserve attention.
The blue elephant in the room.
Yeah but again, they’re not targeting you.
I don’t expect anyone targeted by them can easily ignore them. Good thing that anyone with half a brain rejects that nonsense.
The blue elephant in the room.
Lotta brainless people voting, present company excluded of course. 😉
Lotta brainless people voting, present company excluded of course. 😉
HEY
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children. (and i agree that any born after 2000 should not currently be voting)
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children.
Have they changed their names yet? No? Blame the children too.
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children. (and i agree that any born after 2000 should not currently be voting)
I meant the parents of those children.
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children. (and i agree that any born after 2000 should not currently be voting)
I meant the parents of those children.
i didn’t realize they were named Abcde as well! that’s insane. I guess you could have Abcde jr, but is it common to give girls a jr suffix?
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children. (and i agree that any born after 2000 should not currently be voting)
I meant the parents of those children.
i didn’t realize they were named Abcde as well! that’s insane. I guess you could have Abcde jr, but is it common to give girls a jr suffix?
I don’t think that parents (who may have any name) who name their children “Abcde” should be voting.
juniorette
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juniorette
Delicious candy?
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children. (and i agree that any born after 2000 should not currently be voting)
I meant the parents of those children.
i didn’t realize they were named Abcde as well! that’s insane. I guess you could have Abcde jr, but is it common to give girls a jr suffix?
I don’t think that parents (who may have any name) who name their children “Abcde” should be voting.
oh i agree, certainly, if they are under 18.
juniorette
Delicious candy?
breaking: frink eats young girls
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OK.
328 girls were named Abcde in the United States between 1990 and 2014. The name was given to 32 newly born girls in the year 2009 alone.
I don’t think these people should be voting, for one.
don’t blame the children. (and i agree that any born after 2000 should not currently be voting)
I meant the parents of those children.
i didn’t realize they were named Abcde as well! that’s insane. I guess you could have Abcde jr, but is it common to give girls a jr suffix?
I don’t think that parents (who may have any name) who name their children “Abcde” should be voting.
oh i agree, certainly, if they are under 18.
dahmage is declared the winner again.