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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CA will go RED going forward. It's just time and necessary. Either that, or just let it go...
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Californian here. I’ve thought that for awhile (there is a lot of frustration with Democrats here), but the deep anger here at the Republicans who are attacking people who have lost their homes may have interrupted that process. There is a lot of media coverage of those folks and people here are furious, especially because no California politicians tried to target the victims of hurricanes in a similar way. [/quote]

What people are doing this though? I've only seen a couple examples. [/quote]

There has been a few links posted in this thread. And it may only be a few Republicans attacking the victims of the fires but links about what they are saying and doing are flying around here, even from people who don’t like Democrats. The behavior is so extreme and cruel that it’s getting a lot of airplay.

There are also rumors claiming that red state folks were cheering for the fires during moments of silence at football games. Californians may be a lot of things, but there are no stories of them cheering for hurricanes during moments of silence for hurricane victims. I’m not even sure that it’s true that red state football fans were cheering during moments of silence but I’ve now seen the claim made a couple of places so the rumors are flying.

Prior to this, I thought that California would go red, because people are so deeply frustrated with the progressive left, but the anger at Republicans who are victim-blaming (while not victim-blaming hurricane victims) is palpable and I am not so sure now. [/quote]

I just really resent this type of talk as I am in a red state and don't know a single person feeling remotely happy about fires. I am in a couple very large facebook groups for weather/hurricane info, and people feel absolutely terrible and have compassion and want to help. There is a lot of incentive to polarize and divide rather than look at all the people supporting others.[/quote]

I live in NC, near Asheville, and just went through the Helene devastation. We actually lost our home. After the storm, for a week or more, there was no decent cell service in our region, and almost no one had wifi wither. At least in our neighborhood, people were so banded together during that time, helping each other all day every day. I think it was that way through much of the region. As soon as cell service was back, all the disinformation and politicization started up, and the level of camaraderie was immediately impacted - the tone immediately changed - at a micro level, on the ground, it went from "we're all in this together" to "did you hear that Trump/Biden/FEMA said _________" and the party was over. It was SO eye opening, and sad, and made it feel really apparent how years ago individuals from different parties could work together toward common goals, and how much now we're inundated and affected by what we hear on our partisan news stations and, worse, social media. On a larger scale, of course people are still helping people here, but at the micro level, there was this moment of utopian community action, and it was dispelled instantly by cell service the moment it came back. [/quote]

SOCIAL MEDIA IS TOXIC!

People - seriously listen to what PP is saying:  social media is being used to DIVIDE YOU.

You are being manipulated.  [/quote]

It’s not social media. It’s the Republican politicians spreading lies that are divisive on purpose. [/quote]

So you're going to just fall for whoever is manipulating you and their lies? You can decide you refuse to get manipulated.[/quote]

DP. There are multiple bad actors.

Media/news organizations are certainly manipulating a lot of the narratives, motivated by revenue.

Social media provides the platform for unfiltered/unfact checked crap to flood people’s minds.

[b]But Republicans are absolutely spreading lies. They whip up faux “issues” to drive outrage. It’s their entire ethos. They blatantly lie all of the time. 
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Uh huh. But safe and effective lies[/quote]

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