Alinsky Rule 5 - The War on Guns

The Daily Show Attacks the 2nd Amendment Along with Firearms News’ Be Ready! Magazine

In this case, Klepper and his team set out to get gun owners with no media experience on camera responding to set-up questions and then to selectively present who would be shown and how much of their answers would be included. The intent was to present them as representative and make all of us look like ignorant rubes so that we could be laughed at, and so the entire movement of right to keep and bear arms advocacy could be dismissed as the province of morons and paranoids. [More]

Anything you say to the media can and will be held against you.

A Two-Edged Sword

It’s no fun having to play by your own garbage rules, is it? [More]

The Hogglet gets a lesson in Alinsky Rule 4 through the judicious application of Alinsky Rule 5.

[Via Michael G]

Come Point and Laugh at the Wacky Right-Wingers!

The HANDBOOK OF HATE MEMES bundles over 200 full-color pages with over 600 hate memes carefully arranged into 100 topics, covering QAnon conspiracy theories, COVID-19 disinformation campaigns, Russia–Ukraine propaganda, and more, with commentary by PVE/CVE experts from academia, law enforcement and the tech industry. If you ever wondered whether we are secretly ruled by alien reptilian overlords, when the Dark Enlightenment’s acceleration will begin, what the tailless amphibian wildlife in Kekistan is like – look no further. [More]

The Europeans are going a little heavy on the Alinsky Rule 5 Ridicule and that makes me think there must be a reason…

As long as we’re skewering ludicrous conspiracy theories, I wonder if they have anything on gun control working, a global violence monopoly being our salvation, the efficacy of Covid shots and masks, “climate change,” “systemic racism,” men getting pregnant, diversity being our strength, drag queen story hour teaching tolerance to children, the J6 “insurrection”…

[Via WiscoDave]

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