As a proper American, I found about this latest shooting through memes. This one.
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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Same here
American conservatism is a violent, racist, fascist movement.
Some are honorable cultlists, that wear ties, others are dispisable cults that wear silly hats.
They are the same picture.
Ah there it is.
That actually took a bit longer than I expected. Almost 2 hours for them to start lying.
Edit: the timestamps in the screenshot are rounded. It took almost 1:30:00 for them to make the accusations.
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Haha the guy's leaning right, but it's the viewer's left, so he's left leaning.
But he's holding the bird with his left hand, because he's leftist.
Everything is left if you want it bad enough lol.
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I don’t understand NPR here. I listen to WNYC, it may be different but I don’t think this meme is correct about them. Prove me wrong, please.
Of the logos shown, only Fox News would ever use the term "radical leftist".
Generally I think they try to painfully aim to be neutral, but with the Kirk shooter they seemed to indulge the jump to paint him as leftist and let the coverage emphasize the trans romantic partner angle and taking the bullet messages at face value without even mentioning the Groyper angle.
I think they mean well, but then I see it be all for naught. They had a right winger on and let him say as he like about how folks on the right have suffered and how it's all the left's fault, that all the violence has been leftists and they let him go on like this for a bit. Then they tried to at least add the context that not long ago multiple democrat politicians were killed and the right wing killer had a hit list to kill more of them, and the right winger just exploded about how unfair they were being and how they shouldn't exist as a news organization for daring to politicize the tragedy of Kirk's death.
Have also heard them trying to throw a life preserver to right wing interviewees to offer them a more legitimate sounding point than the craziness they were saying. Though more often than not the person rejects the potentially reasonable sounding rationale and looks all the more stupid for doubling down on their ridiculous rationale, so it still sometimes works.
I think they mean well
I don't think they mean well. I think they're desperate for funding and they're careful not to piss off any of their corporate sponsors. PBS News Hour is the same way, trying carefully not to piss off their corporate sponsors while also providing acceptable content to their audience of old, white liberals.
NPR is fash brainwashing for people who think they're not susceptible, and it works like a charm.
NPR often times reports what is being reported, so if the rest of the media is saying it then NPR will say that’s what’s being said.
Sometimes it has the effect of adding their voice to the pile.
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Thomas Sanford once received racial left medical care
NPR? BBC? I'm confused by this meme now...
The so-called "left-leaning“ (in reality Centrist at the best of times and sometimes quite far right) media have a frequent tendency to report on ridiculous claims by the fascists without any indication that it's utter nonsense or even that there's no evidence for it.
Can I get a citation for NPR doing this? That would be surprising
Editorial "backstops" courtesy of anonymous donors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/business/npr-editing-backstop.html
I've been listening to NPR for years and since 2024 they started including right wing rhetoric in their reporting. It started getting really obvious the closer we got to the last election.
Yeah idk why you're upvoted, unless I'm missing something. The articles you linked(could only read the first as the 2nd is behind a paywall) only talk about how much slower NPRs coverage may become due to the backstops. Nothing implies that they have become unreliable news.
I'm unconvinced that NPR is unreliable based on your info. I listen to their planet money, the 1A, and the indicator broadcasts. The 1A especially has recently been openly and bluntly criticizing the fascists movements of Trump/Republicans. The indicator and planet money are more economics focused (rather than politically focused than 1A ) but even they will criticize Republican actions if it doesn't align with economic theories.
I have no issues with 1A, that program has always been very progressive and fair. My main issue is with Morning Edition, and some segments they did on All Things Considered over the past couple years.
It just seems that it's not in the best interest of NPR to have anonymous donors gumming up the gears for their reporting.
I listen to NPR as well, have for years, donate to my local station, and I've only ever heard them discuss right-wing talking points as exactly that: clearly labeled right-wing talking points that are relevant to informing listeners about the current state of the national discourse.
While anonymous donors of any kind rub me the wrong way, the article you linked doesn't provide evidence of the things I was asking for citations about.
Rather it specifically talks about a) concerns about the rapidity of journalism within NPR when having to go through more editor review and b) accusations of left-leaning bias from a former employee
I appreciate your concerns but the links you provided don't back up the claims I was responding to, and while they are concerning for a few reasons, none of those reasons are "becoming more right wing" or "repeating right wing talking points as fact or opinion".
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Of you zoom right in there’s trans ideology engraved on the fish.
He looks like he's been indoctrinated in extreme trans gender violence.
What is up with military vets going on wild killing sprees this past week?
Untreated PTSD with a large dose of hate speech and propaganda.
Ding ding ding. On the nose. You win a gun.
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Finally, in news from the US, a crazy person attacked a local crazy cult. And now, the weather...
All religions are cults. And now, the sports.....
This radical leftist would love to do some duck hunting. I’m pretty good at clays and getting a meal at the end would be even better
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Is there some chance that this is a Catholic on Mormon retribution killing spree?
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