All sites are aiming at the same people. People who have money and will click on the ads. The target ends up being 2% of most countries and something like 30% of Americans. Sending these people to historical sites generates peanuts from ads. Sending them to lie for money sites generates money for the scammers but also for Facebook, Google, and all the other sites that can direct traffic. A side effect is totally screwed up US politics.

The people doing this aren't ideological, they've tried to get other people to give them money but people who don't believe conspiracy theories don't click on the ads.

If you don't wash your hands after handling raw meat, and if you don't cook raw meat before consuming it you probably already have worse problems than COVID-19. Salmonella for instance.

Because of the number of dumb/racist posts.

All lives matter would not be racist in a vacuum. In response to a movement for people that are being denied fundamental human rights and persecuted with little recourse unless absolutely damning video evidence plays on national TV it is very much a racist response.

"My brother died"

"Everyone dies"

True, but not ideal in context and very much lacking in empathy.

Based on the answers so far I'm very glad I don't live in the US.

Obviously everyone should have the same fundamental human rights. Black people have been, and still are, denied many of these rights. The right to choose where to live, the right not to be hassled by police for no reason, the right not to be excluded from jobs because of skin color.

Due to long term continuing racism many people see a need to mandate some limits and goals based on skin color to overcome the current problems. As per Reagan-era studies attempting to debunk it, affirmative action increases hiring of minorities and has no measurable impact on non-minorities. That is some people get jobs that they would have been refused based on their skin color and the people who did not get the job find other work.

The work force is not zero sum. It costs everyone money to discriminate against people, harass them, and keep them poor. If those people are given opportunities for education and employment they consume and create more jobs, exactly the way tax cuts for the rich don't.

Obviously all lives matter but some people are being killed without consequences and most of those are not blue or white. If your cousin's husband/wife dies and they ask for sympathy you don't say "everyone dies, not just your spouse," at least not unless you lack empathy. You should think about the consequences.

I would put most of these responses down to Russian trolls or whatever but I've visited the US enough times to know that overt racism is pretty common (I'm white, but that doesn't mean I want to hear racist diatribes).

It's in everyone's best interest to fix the system, make everyone better off, including "illegal" immigrants brought in to pick crops etc. And yes, we do the same thing here in Canada, bring in people, deny them rights, and get them to work cheaply. It's wrong here too.

Moderation to oblivion...

All propaganda all the time? You need it to sell paid health care, gifts to the rich, incarceration for the poor, and general head bashing.

It's not the subject it's the message. If people agree with right wing propaganda it gets echoed. If people disagree lots of people say that you just shouldn't talk about it. Sort of like salaries, it's rude to discuss them because once they are disclosed they go up, like they did for CEOs when their salaries were made public.

It's not that it's wrong to discuss politics it's that the message doesn't agree with the echo chamber and the 0.1%, so just don't bring it up.

Because they click on the ads. It's the only reason. They are the most sought after people in America from an internet point of view. Kaching.

In taxes trickle down is not really a thing, money flows up. In cars it could be a thing as early adopters replace their cars when they are bored with them and resell them when they are still good for another few hundred K.

Try forcing white people into a given, undesired area, refusing them jobs, getting police to hassle them, continue for a few generations, see whether they do better. Oppression doesn't lead to Christian tolerance it leads to misery and violence.

If you randomly stop a group of people, search them, hassle them, and occasionally find stuff, vs a control group of people that you literally never stop on foot and only stop for moving violations/tickets in cars you will end up ticketing/charging the first group more. The resulting stats don't really show anything, especially if you jail people in the first group for things that you warn/ticket for in the second group.

I'd have my doubts that this was done unconsciously. It's either pretty openly suspecting people based on skin color or pretty openly annoying people because they want to and are in a position to do so.

Canada pushes competition and forces companies that received government or client assistance in building their networks to lease lines at a set rate.

I've had a variety of connections over the last few years but I've mostly been happy. I have GB fiber now. I haven't had an internet outage in years. Had to get a cable box replaced when I was on cable and I had problems with the phone lines for a bit (connections would drop when it rained, phone company fixed it, said something about squirrels) almost 20 years ago.

Always better when the government regulates companies.

The police are actually supposed to be protecting protestor's rights to protest peacefully and not just looking for an excuse to beat on a bunch of random people. It looks like a mediocre college football team had a tough time playing college ball so they decided to go around randomly starting pickup games with smaller, non-football players. "Whack the 70 year old, spike it in the end zone."

The police have historically been around mostly to bash the heads the powerful are annoyed with, often black people, unions, anti-war protestors... Listen to the police these days, they say things like " this is almost like the bad days of globalization protests." I doubt the police care about the issue but they know they are being paid to beat random people so that the very rich don't get mildly inconvenienced or embarrassed.

Here in Canada people get stopped a dozen times in a couple of months for driving while black. As a white guy I have literally never been stopped by police here, not once. If you randomly stopped white people all the time, pushed them around, made their lives difficult, searched them illegally, beat them and planted evidence when they complained, you would even up the jail stats pretty quickly.

Does having a police force like this make anyone other than the 0.1% more free? Does demeaning Black Lives Matter (acronyms are a propaganda move, primarily by Fox News, to make debate partisan instead of meaningful) mean that you have no black friends who trust you enough that they will talk about their experiences?

True enough:

Most confederate monuments were set up during Jim Crow or civil rights times. Reactionary not historical.

It's depressing I was googling to find the Wilmington massacre and a bunch of others came up. There is definitely a trend. As a Canadian we did just as badly with aboriginals and it is not acceptable in either case.

The "white privilege" thing scares me. It's not privileges, it's fundamental human rights that are being denied to some people. The end result may well be that all peole are denied the right not to be beaten by police etc. We need to call it what it is: human rights are fundamental and they are being denied illegally and immorally based on skin color.

Institutional and systemic racism is prevalent in most places. If you disagree it probably means you don't have black friends or at least black friends who trust you enough to speak openly. And you only watch news that is "opinion and entertainment that no one would take seriously" as per Fox News defending themselves in court.

Systemic racism is easy. Starts with teachers grading by skin color. Even if you overturn it when people protest it still hits a lot of people who don't know it is happening. You would think it would be gone in civilized countries these days, and at least it is getting rarer, at least in areas that aren't very poor.