BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minneapolis #AlexPretti #Immigration #Protest #CBP #BorderPatrol
you're confusing Propublica with for-profit media. Propublica are the good ones. we really don't need to attack fucking everyone and everything on the left in performative fashion for perceived lack of purity, please. we have much more important targets. adjust who you fucking criticize, please. might i suggest WaPo or NYT
@benroyce @coltonwise @ProPublica
Proper journalistic practice, which ProPublica is following here, requires not getting ahead of the facts and evidence. By not using the word "murder" loosely, they're exercising proper journalism.
You know and I know it was murder, but we're not stating that as journalists reporting on a story. And ProPublica isn't saying that it WASN'T murder, either.
@n1xnx @coltonwise @ProPublica
exactly
and yet this endless fucking parade of performative bullshit from purity masturbators. i just wish the fucking left could learn to aim at MAGA and not at themselves for the slightest perception of imperfection
though they might not even be real left
it's so easy for edgelord cosplayers to play troll games on fake high holy outrage over every forced, contrived perception of supposed inadequacy. and yet there is an audience of dimwits for this shit
@benroyce @coltonwise @ProPublica
"and yet there is an audience of dimwits for this shit" is probably a good description of most if not all human history, but yes.
@n1xnx @benroyce @coltonwise @ProPublica Journalists have to state the facts as they are at the time the story is published. That said, *all* news media need to *STOP* using passive voice sentence construction when police are "involved".
🚫 "...agents involved in the fatal shooting of..."
✔ "...agents who shot and killed..."
@log @n1xnx @coltonwise @ProPublica
sure but this is navel gazing
we have fascists in the white house pushing straight lies about Minneapolis
and they won partly because so many on the left care more about tearing into each other rather than confronting the real enemy
endlessly micromanaging some absurd need to achieve purity
rather than, you know, notice that we're fucking drowning in fascism?
prioritizing that 5 alarm fire in our focus?
why the fuck do many on the left not see this?
@patrascan @benroyce @coltonwise I’ll be happy to start supporting @ProPublica again, as soon as they agree to the entirely reasonable demands of @propublicaguild
1/ We are entering year 3 of bargaining for a fair contract that protects both the workers who produce our award-winning, high-impact journalism as well as the quality of that work. We are also entering year 3 of @[email protected] management fighting against a fair contract. https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/propublica-management-continues-to-fight-basic-union-protections-after-two-years-of-bargaining
@mivox @patrascan @coltonwise @ProPublica @propublicaguild
great
so we have an unresolved labor argument that is still ongoing, as there always is, and so you withhold your support?
you realize the guild you're supposedly championing could use the money too?
there's a bigot plutocrat owned media company somewhere happy to hire to push lies instead
i really really despise this sort of performative, empty, eventually self-defeating purity song and dance
attack the right not the left
yes but it's important to push back
we can block them or ignore them but they're still here, spreading their poison
so i prefer confronting them
an orthogonal situation is the vatnik accounts i keep seeing (accounts spreading kremlin lies)
block? ignore?
i fight them
sometimes i get enough material to generate a report, and maybe get them suspended
this approach is not for everyone
i do not expect others to have the patience, stomach, or desire to fight trolls
but i will
cringe is indeed the issue here Colton, although you should consider yours more than you consider mine
You can’t out reason stupid. Maybe you can influence some bystanders, which is something.
Just saw Sean Spicer talking about the Texas Senate special election.
In 2022 250 people voted Democratic , in 2026 50 thousand did.
Be a good person, live a good life, there is a good chance this thing is dying on the vine in front of us.
a "bot" is not a markov chain chatbot per se
it also applies to real people that are pursuing a scripted agenda
and also people who don't think very much, and therefore are comparable in cerebral wattage to a small chatbot script
but i have to thank you Colton
you inspired my now top pinned post:
@utopiarte @Spacehistory @coltonwise
I gave you a favorite to help with your dopamin needs
this troll utopiarte elsewhere in this thread accused me of just seeking dopamine, so i'm giving their troll back
if you don't see the comment, and you block that account or it blocks you, in the mobile UI there is a bug where it looks like i'm responding to you, because you don't see the intervening comment that was responding to you that i am responding to
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