“Let’s see, baseball, rode a bike - that could be me, except for the part where I go out and do something incredibly stupid. All those things - Boy Scout, outdoorsman, right? You know who that is? A lot of people. Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, was all those things. Dennis Rader, remember him? He’s the beat, bind, torture and kill guy. He liked to hunt. He was a family man. Everybody liked him. His mother liked him. All that stuff. Dennis Rader and Alex – I’m sorry, but I can’t just pretend because you’re dead, you’re like the superior person.”
Growing up I always figured blatant lies and propaganda had a very limited if at all effective reach. People couldn’t be that willfully stupid. Oh, how I have been disillusioned…
That right there is how the nihilism of capitalism works.
Good has the same value as nothing if the market needs it to be so.
That take is beyond messed up.
Guy was shot dead by ICE officers for the crime of helping a fellow protestor that had been knocked-down by an ICE officer.
There shouldn’t be enough money in the world to pay someone to spout this sub-human take comparing him to a horrifically vile serial killer, yet here we are.
Anyone who can agree with this unironically is indoctrinated beyond repair, or also being paid off. I refuse to believe otherwise.
He conveniently left out that Rader was former Air Force and a devout Christian. That last part is actually how he got caught (by using the church’s PC to write his letters taunting the police and sending them a floppy).
Another thing that separates Pretti and Rader: Dennis Rader is fucking still alive.
is he really saying “well Hitler drank water too”
Yeah, that’s essentially it. It’s a false equivalence based on irrelevant circumstantial similarities.
What else do you expect from newsmax?
It’s basically Comedy Central v.2
At this point, it seems to be the only cable news outlet that has the total lack of self-respect required to parrot the DHS line that Pretti was some kind of domestic terrorist.
When not even Fox news is prepared to stoop so low, you know you’ve left every pretense of being an actual news organization far behind.
Fox can’t foot the bill for another lie
If you’re a Boy Scout you’re a SERIAL KILLER!
-Republicans LITERALLY!
Greg Kelly looks like shit, damn. Man used to have a little drip. Hate eats you up smdh.
For a while, folks on lemmy were posting newsmax in the politics and news communities, as if they were offering proper articles unavailable elsewhere. Glad we’re past that.
Compare and contrast this with the total glazing of Charlie Kirk after he got killed. Anyone who said anything negative about him was immediately dogpiled and doxxed.
Piece of shit racist hatemonger gets the deference but an actual good person and hero is called a terrorist. These conservative chucklefucks have given up any right to be taken seriously.
Newsmax making severe dementia patients their hosts seems on brand.
It plays well for their severe dementia base.
It makes them “relatable”.
Denis Rader isn’t even dead.
Absolutely repulsive, but par for the course with "News"max
