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Some people are so fragile. Fox News of course is saying feds have banned non US flags, of course lying to their viewers about what is actually happening.

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

To put your point slightly different: These issues don't matter to those who aren't affected by them.

The ones opposing these issues are almost exclusively not people who have any first-hand (or second-hand) experience with the topic at hand.

It's a pure moral panic that is used to distract, at the expense of people who are seriously affected by these moral panic attacks. So of course these people fight back, because it's their existance that is threatened. And that gives a really nice distraction about the issues that really should be changed (power structures, corruption, screwed election systems, ...)