YoBuckStopsHereRon DeSantis’ False claim that some states allow ‘post-birth’ abortions. None do.
GRENADE_MAGNETIn case anyone doesn’t understand how all this works:
Republicans make outlandish, grandiose, patently untrue, vitriolic and inflammatory statements.
This is picked up by right wing “news” outlets like FOX, OAN, Newsmax, etc. and “reported” and repeated. To the people who watch these sources they believe its legitimate, real and true.
These people ONLY get their information from these sources: huge echo chambers. There is no fact checking, no competetimg opinion and no misinformation correction. It is in fact the purpose.
This is meant to stir anger, resentment and many other immoral narratives and it works.
Post birth abortions are OF COURSE not a thing but that truth will be lost on the people that consume and believe this bullshit.
Years ago I was in the phone to my mom and she brought up that some blue states were allowing abortion up to birth. That didn’t sound right so I looked up the one for New York and read it.
Was the most plainly worded bill I’d ever seen. Basically laying out life of the mother or nonviable clauses in the 3rd trimester.
I read it to my mom and she still didn’t believe me. Like, it was the primary source and she still took fox “news” over it.
The really sad thing is all the people I know who are sucked into this brainwashing are, for the most part, kind and good people. You would never know they are brainwashed until one of these topics comes up and bam crazy words spewing from their mouth!
When this happens I feel genuinely bad for them. I also know trying to flat-out convince them is futile, so I’ve taken to secretly planting seeds of doubt which I hope will one grow grow to fruition. I’m proud to say it’s worked with one of them so far!
Undoing brainwashing tactics is really, really hard… and I just think it’s absolutely despicable that these propagandists prey upon people.