this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
1114 points (98.5% liked)
Political Memes
5445 readers
3155 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
He didn’t say that he made up the story.
He repeatedly says that he’s reporting what his constituents told him. When pressed by the interviewer about why he says he “created” the story, he clarifies that he meant he created the news story, as in created the news focus on it.
Here is a link to the interview in question, so you can decide for yourself whether he claims he made it up, or whether people who tell you that are lying to you, or being misinformation puppets for others who lied to them:
https://youtu.be/djpTr5r0zMQ?si=ZwvLsPxJ20PjZARP
But as a VP candidate, he should know how to avoid this confusion. And he took the opportunity to justify the damage rather than own up to his part in the misinformation. I frankly agree with you on his exact intent of those words, but he's still unforgivable.
He didn’t justify the damage, he clarified what he meant. The “damage” lasted all of like 60 seconds before he clarified, and all of the “damage” since then has been caused by what I described above, which is a combination of people knowingly lying about what he said, and others gullibly passing along those lies because they match their desired narrative.
Now that you know, are you going to stop repeating the idea that “JD Vance thinks it’s okay to lie to drum up fear”?
Did you miss the bomb threats that were called in because of the lie he spread?
How long until people are killed because of the lies he spreads?
Why are you ok with that?