Addressing misinformation part 3 means don't spread it first, or, the ballad of the reality of Jessica McCabe and Ryan Knight

Calling out "proud socialist" Ryan Knight this time, with a reminder he was a Berner before he was a Green. Here's the tweet.

She’s right and if your reaction is to mock her then you’re part of the problem too. Until the people of this country come together and reject both capitalist parties who use the state to enrich themselves & their corporate donors things will continue to get worse. https://t.co/ZZ0KdlN15p

— Ryan Knight ☭🕊 (@ProudSocialist) August 10, 2023

In my last response, I said:

And, listening through her rant? She's in Alabama. Tell me where in Alabama you have to have a six-figure salary to get a little bitty place to live. $2,000 for a studio apartment? Trulia shows lots of full 1-bedroom apartments @ $1,000-$1,500. Off to blog https://t.co/7BLVEYOnaz

— TheRealSocraticGadfly (@real_gadfly) August 12, 2023

Simple facts. That's not mocking, Ryan. It's "fact-checking." 

That said, "fact-checking" won't change her mind, but, to riffing on part two of this semi-series, one can't preach against the motivated reasoning behind misinformation without first recognizing that misinformation is at hand. And it is, Ryan.

Jumping from the price of a one-bedroom apartment (I don't know if Birmingham is more or less expensive than Montgomery, Mobile or Huntsville, to cite some other larger places in Alabama) to nearly twice that for a studio is not just hyperbole, it's misinformation, Ryan.

Besides, did said mom live by herself after moving out on her own, or with roommates? Has her son not considered that? After moving back out from my dad's, I never did that, but? I lived frugally. That includes living in an actual studio.

The reason I note Ryan used to be a Berner was that Bernie himself, of course, ostensibly made a class-based appeal to voters regardless of ethnicity in 2016. And, offered up similar blind spots himself.

I'm not saying that Bama Mama is a full-on Karen; I am saying she should be treated skeptically.

 

I add to that by noting that Bama Mama Jessica McCabe's video had the classic social media influencer framing; and, the fact that it was amplified on Fox adds to this. (It also raises the "coincidence or not" angle.) Someone sitting in the front seat of a car, as if they had thoughts that just happened to pop into their head while stopped at a red light, goes off on a rant. (McCabe is also on Instagram. And, she went semi-viral with a radio station profile 14 months ago. And, part of the story there is that she gave a smackdown to one of her sons about just how viral she could go, which means we should be more skeptical yet, right Ryan Knight?)

 

OK, TikTok says Millbrook, Bammy. Metro Montgomery. So, the same Trulia info I tweeted to Ryan with change of city? And, it's even WORSE for her truth-stretching and Ryan's suckerdom. Trulia for Montgomery not only shows plenty of 1-bedroom apartments for $1,000-$1,500 a month, but even duplexes and a few houses (two or three bedroom) that look at least OK.

Millbrook itself? Per City-Data, rents nowhere near that high.

 

Be more skeptical, Ryan. If not, you'll get mocked if anybody does. You're also — yes, we're at that point — going to get mocked for doing a cheap ex-Berner attempted drive-by on Blue Anoners without doing your own research.

And (although he falls into it himself at times)? Per Jeff St. Clair? Ryan, don't be in the more credulous precincts of the left.

 

Finally, the phenomenon demonstrated by Ryan, and also by other Berner types on things like COVID deserves its own hashtag, and so I invent #BernAnon to deliberately play off #BlueAnon. Deal with it.