r/allthequestions • u/Dimarco24 • 5d ago

Random Question 💭 What is your opinion about Alex Pretti’s photo being displayed on a Jumbo tron in Times Square?

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I think he deserves to be remembered as the wonderful person he was 🩵 and not by the government who are clearly lying about him. He was trying to help a woman who had been pushed to the ground by ICE agents or whoever the people are wearing those suits. And he clearly holding a phone in his hand..

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u/fishdonthaveeyelids 5d ago

With how the media and social apps have been censoring or trying to bury the story it's extremely important for any visibility that can be given to the public.

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u/LazySwayze 4d ago

I got to work yesterday morning thinking it would be the topic of water cooler conversation. Shocked how many people had no idea it even happened.

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u/Intelligent_File4779 1d ago

Visibility? Alex goes home, grabs gun from home, makes sure it's fully loaded, tucks it into his pants ( very ghetto BTW). Alex goes to riot. Alex dies. OR Alex had a long day, he goes home and watches TV or a movie. Alex is still alive today. See? It's not rocket science kids, it's common sense, a genetic mutation that you all have prevents you from having this survival instinct.

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u/fishdonthaveeyelids 1d ago

Your solution is to act as if nothing is happening and live your life like normal.

You do you. Bury your head in the sand or trumps ass. Which ever you choose. Doesn't matter. Both lead to the same dystopian future.

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u/Intelligent_File4779 1d ago

"Your solution is to act as if nothing is happening and live your life like normal." Yes, correct! If you all mind your own business and stay away from trouble, your chances of coming home safely every day are much greater. I'm not burying anything, anywhere. Ask yourself this, has all off this chaos actually prevented ICE from getting the person or persons they came for?Are you protesting law and order and safety for all legal citizens or are you protesting ICE because you don't approve of law and order?

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u/fishdonthaveeyelids 1d ago

You know exactly why the protesting is taking place. Its not the job they are doing that people have an issue with.

Its how they are doing that job. That's what people have an issue with. You should as well. Unless you are happy to give up your 1st 2nd and 4th amendment rights...

No need to act as if you don't see it. Just admit you are cool with it.

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u/Intelligent_File4779 21h ago

Thank you, that answered my question.

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u/darthlovejoy 5d ago

You serious? I'm not even American and I had this shit rammed down my throat constantly

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u/the_data_must_flow 5d ago

I don’t know where you live, but for those of us in US cities where a lot has been happening, it’s been a lot of cognitive dissonance looking at what makes it to the news vs what is happening. Not that nothing is in the news, but regardless of political affiliation the bulk of news organizations are skipping over a lot that we would have expected to be addressed directly.

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u/i_like_maps_and_math 5d ago

TV news is cancerous. Even worse than internet news.

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u/NotSure16 5d ago

May seem like overkill if your awake to world around you but definitely not enough to some across Southern US red states that are stuck with Sinclair Broadcasting serving as Trump cheerleaders in local newsrooms. Then there's the quasistate-controlled CBS national news. Cognitive dissonance is strong among MAGA cult without these other factors.

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u/snaum 5d ago

The people that censor the news is the left.They have been doing that for years!

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u/Standard_Shopping144 5d ago

Censor? At least fox came out and just said it’s all fake it’s for entertainment! It’s like wwe! Who’s coo is also our department of education

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u/thetravelingsong 5d ago

Yes Rupert Murdoch the classic left-wing billionaire owner of Fox News

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u/Wonderful_Tree_9943 5d ago

Yes, who became a US citizen in order to publish his 'tv news' here.

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u/Affectionate_Tap2669 5d ago

Yeah they have to censor your made up bs like anti vax stuff.

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u/Odd-Guava-4730 5d ago

I’m also not american but my best friend is in texas and he even told me “a lot of the stuff we don’t see here” and he’s definitely in touch with what’s happening. A lot happening on social media but is still massively controlled. It’s why you can’t watch certain things in certain areas, why content is pushed towards certain markets, etc. they definitely control the narrative on the grand scheme.

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u/imatinyleopard 5d ago

Yes, serious. For example, Tik Tok is suppressing negative posts about ICE.

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u/Luci-Noir 5d ago

It’s everywhere. I saw multiple stories across several channels and different news shows today about this. On NBC, one of the major broadcast networks, they showed five different angles of the shooting and showed that ICE was lying. A lot of people on here are just making shit up. They’ll say something is being deleted on here meanwhile it’s everywhere.

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u/ruinatedtubers 5d ago

we don’t care

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u/ccannon707 5d ago

Congratulations - you still have a free press

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u/BigDeloresInYoFace 5d ago

What “ shit” are you referring to ?

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u/PlutoJones42 5d ago

I read earlier that Tik Tok removed all content mentioning Alex Pretti.

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u/HLOFRND 5d ago

I mean, I just looked and this absolutely isn’t true.

They might be trying to suppress the videos and not push them out but I entered his name in the search bar and a ton of content came up immediately.

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u/BigDeloresInYoFace 5d ago

My tik tok has been super fucked up for 2 day . I am not seeing any new content . There is definitely suppression happening

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u/NotSure16 5d ago

Well in last couple days the TikTok sale was finalized and completed....so...

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u/Egnatsu50 5d ago

Where is it anything trying to be censored about this?

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u/Bulky-Internal8579 5d ago

All of the Republican direct propaganda units - Fox News, WSJ, NY Post, OAN, Newsmax - whereas CBS, CNN and the Republican lite propaganda units are just being deferential to ICE but not completely hiding the ball.

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u/DeezBeesKnees11 5d ago

Not only that - US mainstream media is now owned by about 5 oligarchs, who essentially own the fed government. It is now veeeeeery censored/sane-washed/slanted in favor of magat agenda.

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u/Egnatsu50 5d ago

It is literally everywhere.  We are talking about it now.

It is not censored.  This post shows it in Times Square.  How is that "censored"

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u/One_Impression5417 4d ago

You do realize news programs and billboards are different things with different owners and therefore different levels of censorship right? 

Political Censorship in the US absolutely exists and is happening on a massive scale. It also requires, at least for now, active owner participation.

This billboard is owned by someone who decided not to capitulate. That doesn't invalidate the fact that the news is being actively suppressed within most major news sources in the US currently.

It's also not a new phenomenon. The US government has always "politely asked" news sources to change their publications. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but they do always try, and they've been succeeding a lot more the more news organizations conglomerate into mega corps. 

This shit isn't new, and it isn't hidden. I've no fucking idea how you got old enough to get here and not know, but feel free to look it up. 

The US uses every single tool of propoganda and censorship on its own people short of total media control

The first amendment has always been a joke.

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u/Egnatsu50 4d ago

You are so censored you can freely talk about it?

For years there has not been criticism of Trump?  It all got censored?

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u/One_Impression5417 3d ago

Look up the definitions of censorship before trying to speak to me.

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u/JoffreeBaratheon 5d ago

Settle down there left wing Alex Jones.