u/rite_of_truth

I'm seeing far too much of this on facebook right now. It's a cesspool of a site already, but this is an obvious ploy to make already apathetic black Texas voters stay home. It's so easy to manipulate people! I could scare the skin off an Asian guy using the same tactics that could work on any other race or demographic. Or, I could control them with targeted rage.

Start with manufactured rage. It doesn't even have to make sense, it just has to sound justified. Amplify it, replay it, and throw in a few more examples of MANUFACTURED rage, and the sparks have hit the kindling. The next step is to watch others pile on, and amplify their newfound rage. And just keep pumping it out, putting it all up in our faces. Next thing you know, most think it is the popular sentiment.

Now, look at the endgame with Paxton VS Talarico.

There aren't 30 "influencer" videos of black people complaining about Paxton, and he COMPLETELY doesn't care about black people. So why not point out that both haven't catered to them? Well, Talarico has been. He's actually trying, and it isn't sudden. He's been campaigning for a good while, appealing to everyone that he can. He never came into a room and said, "My white voter friends, let me hear your concerns." Instead, he has been listening to anyone's concerns, no matter who they are.

So, some raging woman in a viral clip saying "Answer our question or face consequences..." The dude tries, and she keeps shutting him down.

Why would anyone, especially a black person in Texas, actively work FOR Ken Paxton? Must be desperation.

Date: By July 30

Evidence: I've already seen one, it looked freakin' real - except that this old dude can't pull those moves in any capacity. I'm kind of looking forward to the absurdity to come.

I was 10 years old, and I rushed home from school to watch cartoons. When I turned on the television, it was news. I changed the channel, and more news. Every station only had news broadcasts, so I decided to just watch one.

The broadcasters were in a studio, a man and a woman, both white, with American accents. The studio was poorly set up, though, and cables could be seen across the floor of the studio. The broadcasters weren't as well-polished and presentable as our local news anchors. They looked kind of pale and tired, as if the studio forgot the makeup department. They talked about the death of Nelson Mandela, a man I'd never heard of as a young American. The footage they showed was of a better quality than their studio- much cleaner and sharper. It showed women wailing in the street, and people holding a coffin aloft as they walked. I changed to the other channels, and they were talking about the same thing. There were 4 channels that broadcast to us there, but only 2 versions of the news broadcast. 1 version on 2 channels, and another on the other 2. None of the broadcasters looked familiar. They weren't our local news anchors. Both had messy studios, badly shot (showing background things like other cameras) and a bit blurry in the studio, with exactly the same footage from South Africa.

My mom was cooking dinner just outside my bedroom where the kitchen was, so I decided to ask her who Nelson Mandela was. She said that he was a great man, and briefly explained apartheid and how he had fought against it. I told her that he was dead, and she said it was "such a shame."

Years later as a young man, I was listening to Coast to Coast with Art Bell, and a caller mentioned this exact scenario. I remembered it, but I really didn't anticipate what he said next. Nelson Mandela was alive, and had become the President of South Africa! I never knew what to make of that. It was before widespread internet access, and I didn't go to the library to find a book about it.

It was about 2015 or so when I heard of the Mandela effect. I still don't know what to make of those broadcasts. In my mind, it was some kind of disinformation campaign. The reasons are unknown to me.

I posted about this on that other subreddit, and was abused, harassed, and degraded for it. Apparently, that is the purpose of their sub. Pretty crummy. Anyway, when you all found me, I decided to feel it out a while before posting.

Surely, another person who saw the broadcasts will find us here. Please reach out to me if you are one of them.

Take care.

Edited to add:

Some of this memory is a little vague. I was a very normal American kid, and hadn't ever thought about South Africa. I had no clue who Nelson Mandela was, so I didn't think much of the broadcasts. The poor camera work I remember clearly, as well as the two white broadcasters. The second version of the broadcast was a little different. There might have been one white guy and a black woman? I really only watched that one for a shorter time. I also remember feeling a bit relieved when the camera finally found the right angle for the shot, and it looked more like news anchors at a news desk, without all of the background stuff showing. Just putting it out there. It was 37 years ago, after all.