This Snopes correction is one for the ages, you have to read the editor’s note! Snopes really has done a 180 over the years. In its early days, Snopes tracked down the back stories of claims that ordinary rubes didn’t have the internet skills to find. Now, ordinary rubes have to tell Snopes what anyone other than a “fact checker” would find painfully obvious.
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
