Case in point the two National Guards that got shot and one died. If I shot two people it would not register nationally. I am a traveling nurse and don’t know why people treat them differentaly ? I mean they are signing up and taking a risk doing so. I got empathy for families and stuff but childeren get killed everyday, or a nurse gets AIDS from a needle poke. Why should their lives matter more than yours?
Because their deaths are politically useful.
Those two National Guardsman being killed was the Trump administrations wildest hopes coming true.
The conspiracy theorist in me says they were killled as part of a false flag operation. The realist in me says it was the huge stroke of luck for tRUMP.
Right wing media is foaming at the mouth convincing right wing America that everything is chaos and only the lord and savior Trump is the answer.
The troops in the capital have been cleaning up trash and milling around. They are being put out there as targets. All they have done is persecute the homeless and mentally ill.
With that said it has never made any sense what news stories become huge. Tell me why Amanda Knox or Jon Bene Ramsey get so much attention.
You are a traveling nurse and would you get a lot of attention if you shot two people? Well are you blonde with a tight ass big tits and were you fucking one or both of the victims?
Than you might get a movie off the week every year.
Propaganda. Soldiers and Cops are tools of the ruling class dressed in the guise of protecting citizens.
Similar to why a “dog bites man” situation is unremarkable, unlike a “man bites dog”.
Propaganda and all that, yes.
It’s also largely about the fact that—in theory—these are two jobs that involve ‘putting your life on the line’ to protect and defend innocent civilians, and usually in dire circumstances involving dangerous weapons/violent people. (NOT defending cops/US military, but just pointing out why those jobs can be publicly revered.)
Also, in many/most(?) other countries, shooting two people absolutely would register nationally because civilian gun violence is a big deal and not normal around the world. You happen to live in the one country on the planet where guns vastly outnumber people and mass shootings are a daily regular occurrence.
But yeah. Propaganda. Mostly that.
I think it’s the context. IIRC, they were at/near the White House hinting that it was a political attack. And right now, due to the US politics, everyone’s fantasizing about a civil war; so anything that hints at it will get clicks. Clicks = more traffic to their websites = more ad revenue
Because the media is deep throating the boot. The rich bastards that own it don’t give a fuck about you, me or that nurse that got stuck with a dirty needle. They will tell you what matters and what is or isn’t news and how you should feel about it.
The media doesn’t work for us.
Because if people worked out that most people are decent human beings, they wouldn’t be able to fear monger with their police propaganda puff pieces.
They romanticize these jobs in every form of art and media so that suckers, I mean brave young people, will sign up for those jobs. Because the media caters to the average dumbass, the media goes along with the narrative.
Not every form. The Punisher is basically the antithesis of hero worship. Heist movies are another popular genre that’s generally anti-cop.
Because glorifying and elevating, soldiers and cops is one of the ways the state gets people to become soldiers and cops, especially certain kind soft people. It also helps to increase public support for the institutions that oppress and suppress people in behalf of the state.
Simple there’s a whole lot less military personnel then there are citizens.
Same logic of why do we hear more about plant crashes than car crashes. There’s a ton more car crashes. So the car crashes don’t register.
There’s less military so when something happens to them it becomes newsworthy
Just propaganda. That’s all. America likes hero’s. And hero’s can only wear a uniform.
Because the killings are targeted actions that are arguably justifiable in the face of tyrannical action.
If a story broke about a criminal gang who all wore identifiable colors and claimed the right to stop anyone you saw and bully them to the point of death, you’d demand that effective (violent) action be taken to stop them. But because the gang is “the police” and nominally controlled by elected officials and the courts, there is a public policy reason to treat both their misbehavior and the public reactions thereto as something categorically different.
(I’d be all in for abolishing police costumes and requiring them to act only within the bounds of permissable behavior for the rest of us, FWIW )
Because we live in a fascist police state, duh.
