The word "atrocity propaganda" floating around today got me thinking about how distractions work.
Remember Musk visited the US border over a week ago and showed thousands upon thousands of Twitter users upfront what was going on?
Where are we now?
(Not to discredit any actual atrocities going on but one of the richest men in the world put a spotlight on that issue, and now the eyes are on the Middle East again?)
So you believe Israel convinced Hamas to attack them because of Musk visiting the border of a country halfway around the world?
This is a standard "conspiracy theories at all ludicrous"-style response. Instead of it being a mundane plausible conspiracy, such as, "the media focused relentless on a new story that happened to pop up that they knew would distract people", it has to be an elaborate ridiculous conspiracy like "so you're saying the media conspired to make this thing happen so that they could report it and distract people?!". It's either bad faith, or shows how much people have been trained to immediately misrepresent anything involving a "conspiracy" by turning it into a strawman.
The word "atrocity propaganda" floating around today got me thinking about how distractions work.
Remember Musk visited the US border over a week ago and showed thousands upon thousands of Twitter users upfront what was going on?
Where are we now?
(Not to discredit any actual atrocities going on but one of the richest men in the world put a spotlight on that issue, and now the eyes are on the Middle East again?)
So you believe Israel convinced Hamas to attack them because of Musk visiting the border of a country halfway around the world?
This is a standard "conspiracy theories at all ludicrous"-style response. Instead of it being a mundane plausible conspiracy, such as, "the media focused relentless on a new story that happened to pop up that they knew would distract people", it has to be an elaborate ridiculous conspiracy like "so you're saying the media conspired to make this thing happen so that they could report it and distract people?!". It's either bad faith, or shows how much people have been trained to immediately misrepresent anything involving a "conspiracy" by turning it into a strawman.
I just summarized the stance. It seems to be barely connected events so the likelihood of the two things being connected is low.
Not impossible but low.