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Journal by c0lo
(in the loving memory of Runaway1956, who succumbed after a long battle to gatewaypundits. May his brain rest in peace, squeaky clean and smoothed over)
because "Doing your own research" is far easier nowadays than building the habit of thinking critically.
Add COVID-anxiety, a chaotic narcissistic Orange clown and compound with the lack of survival problems to solve for the everyday life in a westernized society and (where appropriate) a good dose of American exceptionalism.
the world’s slackening grip on reality
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:02PM (10 children)
A) Ds not nearly to the same extent as Rs, by a huge margin
B) We tried to have good manners for most of the last 4 years, but
C) Legitimate complaints about Trump and his administration were met with "some people put[ting] political ideology ahead of facts and reality"
D) Full circle
Simple fact is that Rs are deep into fake news and authoritarianism. The problem is not with Ds right now, and continued gaslighting will only earn you further scorn. I think I speak for most liberals, we are done trying to compromise with bad faith entitled people who hypocritically give crimes and abuses of power a total pass when it is their team.
If you want to complain about instances of Ds being hypocrites then get your own house in order first. Until I see a conservative show some humility and admit to reality I will treat them as hostile agents.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:12PM
You're aiming for funny? Oh, shit, you're serious!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:56PM (2 children)
Well said!
met with: TDS
Because you cannot criticize Trump.
I'm happy to blame the D's when they put ideology ahead of science, facts and reality. I would point out that Joe Biden stated his Covid-19
tragedystrategy would be solidly based on science. If we're all gonna die, it'll be based on science!FoxNews does not even make a pretense of trying to be fair. Or balanced. CNN does pretend to be fair. And pretends to be balanced.
I have not agreed with every policy decision of any president. Like Obama, for example. I don't like every single thing he did. But I liked a lot. With R's and especially Trump, it is a total religious cult mentality. There is nothing Trump can do or ever has done wrong. None. Zip. We're seeing his fascist streak trying to seize power, and his fascist followers are just fine with it.
Fixing that would go a very long way. But D's need to police their house also.
But we're wandering away from the problem of R's putting ideology ahead of facts, reality and science in a way and on a scale that the D's do not.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @05:23PM (1 child)
I'll list what Trump did wrong:
1. bump stock ban, without making a good trade for it
2. appointed Sessions, and Wray
3. didn't put Epstein in protective custody with the US Marines doing 24x7 watch and feeding sealed randomly-selected MREs
Now you try. You should be able to come up with a half dozen Biden and Harris scandals that are worse then anything done by Trump, Reagan, or Nixon. You should be able to come up twenty Obama scandals at that level.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 12 2020, @08:33PM
You just listed what President Trump did wrong.
It is impossible for President Biden to have done anything wrong yet.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:56PM (3 children)
Nope. If anything, they are roughly equal in amount.
If spouting a constant stream of pure lies for four years is considered good manners then I'd hate to see what the D's would do if they were not trying to have good manners for the last four years. Oh, wait, we did get to see that this summer. All the D riots in major cities smashing glass and setting everything on fire.
Except you were doing exactly that. Every one of the lies the D's spouted for the last four years only happened because the D's ignored the facts that showed the lies were lies, and spouted the lies just the same. Example (the linchpin of the mess of lies): The fine people hoax. Totally a made up lie by D's created by ignoring the sentence a mere 20 or so words later in the same speech where they cut out the "fine people" part for supporting their lies.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @11:37PM (2 children)
OK Liar.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @03:31AM (1 child)
See this wikipedia page, in the "Third statement" section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unite_the_right_rally#Third_statement [wikipedia.org]
The entire transcript quotation can be read on Wikipedia, below the quotes are trimmed to just the important bits. The first bit, the quote that CNN ran with to create the lie that is the fine people hoax (italics on the part CNN ran with, bold face on the part they excluded to create the lie):
And, here is the part that CNN omitted, that shows that what they reported was and still is a lie:
Reporting just the first quote, and omitting the second quote, which was only a very short distance away from the first, is outright lying on CNN's part.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2020, @08:37AM
So, the marginal Nazis and white supremacists, the alt-white, if you will, those are the fine people on the other side? When my grandpa was dropping bombs on Nazi Germans, no doubt there were some very fine people he blew to fucking bits. But, you know, they stood with the Nazis and white supremacists, or at least too close for a blockbuster to tell the difference. They were not fine people. They are Nazi and white supremacist sympathizers, as I can only image you are, you apologist for Nazis. Careful where you stand.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @07:15AM
Well at least you admit to where all the shitstorm is coming from. Okay, keep it up. It may go to literal civil war.
Or, you could try civility, but for some reason your side just aren't kind people.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday November 13 2020, @06:00AM
Being merely complicit is no better than being the ring leader.
Reelection of the same old shit is only making room for the next Trump, and if you think this one is bad...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..