Minnesota shooting

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Originally Posted by Daytona

This exactly.

I mean there are more shootings than you hear about - bc there are many people here. The ones you do hear about however are chosen and highlighted to form specific narratives and covered only when useful.

This is because, by whatever means, our mainstream forms of media and entertainment have essentially been commandeered by the Democratic Party.

Exactly, but we aren't supposed to address that on these forums. Which I often do address and "they" don't like it.

The U.S. criticisms about shootings from people outside the U.S. is the easiest of low-hanging fruit to attack our society with. And in many ways, rightfully so - school shootings and Chicago-culture related to violence are a mess. But there are a variety of reasons that people can gaslight Americans when addressing these issues.

-Ratios involving the size of the U.S. to violence (i.e. Germany is roughly only the size of Montana, so in that example you are talking about a proportion of violence that doesn't even remotely include an equally large "melting pot" of people, let alone the size of the U.S. And any melting pot of culture that is arising in Germany is causing a ton of social-issues from increased immigration)

-Metric reporting (Andrew tackled this one nicely above)

-Or how about prolific news? Other nations file reports about what happens in the U.S. probably 30 to 1 what the U.S. reports about social-news going on around the rest of the world. In many cases 48% of foreigners follow news about the U.S. I guarantee that half of America doesn't follow news about the raging violence and homelessness in France or the fact that 32% of women have experienced physical, sexual, or psychological violence in Germany. 32%. In a country the size of Montana.

And there are several more points I could add to this as well. Basically, this forum sees an amount of U.S. vitriol from members who are counting on "blind arguments" on a regular basis. It's gaslighting at it's finest from people in countries who hide the hell out of their raging problems while pointing fingers at alleged failures of the U.S.

Once again, evidence that they are disingenuous. Don't believe them because the agenda shines through. America is the greatest country on Earth, but our dirty laundry gets aired out in front of a world that counts on Americans not scrutinizing them back. It's the oldest tactic of angry smaller-guys who are "punching upward" in the playbook.