Of course, right wing media ran with this to gin up rage clicks and to try to get a MAGA boycott of WalMart going. It wouldn't surprise me if one of Walmart's competitors was behind this, but who knows, it could just be standard issue right wing brainrot. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart-ad-no-kings-boycott/
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Those on the far fringe tend to promote it most
I’ve had to teach myself to notice it, file it away and then ignore it. It usually passes into nothingness.
Instead I try to focus on the 80% that’s positive and help keep the momentum moving forward.
(side note: I joked several times these protests have been a boon for Office Depot)
Or as our great poet Lin Manuel Miranda put it, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything." 😁
https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/11/28/jesse-ventura-showed-a-key-quality-for-a-statesman-the-ability-to-learn-from-mistakes/
...that often provide a medium for people, ideas, and resentments to jump from one end to the other.
Various forms of extremism, even apolitical woo-woo nonsense, seems to thrive and propagate in this space.
It seemed inaccurate (and giving too much credit) to label the top / center as "objectivity."