Brietbart, of course, was one of the websites that initially inspired modern usage of the term "fake news", and this is a prime example.
The headline says "criminalize private gun sales". That strongly and clearly infers that these guns sales will no longer be legal.
If you actually read the actual article, of course, that just isn't true. It's about background checks.
Yet folks see what they want to see, the headline is believed anyway, and they lose their shit, just as they have been conditioned to.
A perfect example of the alternate, closed-circuit, ideological/informational universe that has taken over much of the Right.
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The headline says "criminalize private gun sales". That strongly and clearly infers that these guns sales will no longer be legal.
If you actually read the actual article, of course, that just isn't true. It's about background checks.
Yet folks see what they want to see, the headline is believed anyway, and they lose their shit, just as they have been conditioned to.
A perfect example of the alternate, closed-circuit, ideological/informational universe that has taken over much of the Right.
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