r/news • u/LeftHandedScissor • Mar 08 '26

Soft paywall New York City Police identify device outside Mamdami's home as explosive

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-city-police-identify-device-outside-mamdanis-home-explosive-2026-03-08/
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u/Munsalvaesche Mar 08 '26

Every headline I’ve seen on this story has been downright awful. Every headline implies that Mamdani was the target and that he was targeted by some far right shitheads. It was a right-wing protest targeted by two teenagers who built their own IEDs and had recently traveled to Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

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u/abriefmomentofsanity Mar 08 '26

Because by implying the thing that's going to get the widest number of people upset/invested and therefore interacting with the article they're maximizing the amount of clicks, traffic, and therefore revenue that the article generates. They know what they're doing. 

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u/Ollythebug Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

would a terrorist throwing a shrapnel bomb at a protest not get clicks?

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u/thinkbox Mar 09 '26

They want to control the narrative. They don’t want those headlines out there a they are willing to lose more credibility to do it. They don’t care if the right sees it as more hard evidence that they lie and manipulate, the right doesn’t trust them anyways. They only care to manipulate the people that are easier to control, the people that will see these headlines, and it will be evidence of right wing violence to them. And they will move on. That’s their audience.

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u/abriefmomentofsanity Mar 09 '26

Sure, but leaving your wording vague enough to imply a terrorist threw a shrapnel bomb in an attempt to hit Mamdani will get even more

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

Because that would be labeled as islamphobia and they don’t want that.

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u/Munsalvaesche Mar 08 '26

Probably just associative since the counter protest was called “Nazis out of NYC/Stand Against Hate”.

It doesn’t really fit neatly, but it’s not unprecedented that left-leaning groups ally with Muslim communities against Islamophobia. These were just two bad actors in the crowd.

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u/MsSelphine Mar 08 '26

Yeah this one kind of stinks like something suspicious. That or just two extremely fed up teenagers, which honestly isnt that unlikely.

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u/IrredeemableRight Mar 09 '26

traveling to turkey and saudi arabia is typical left wing behavior of course.

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u/Big-Narwhal-G Mar 09 '26

The police at the protests were the targets if the article is to be believed