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the world’s slackening grip on reality

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.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:56PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @09:56PM (#1076342)

    A) Ds not nearly to the same extent as Rs, by a huge margin

    Nope. If anything, they are roughly equal in amount.

    B) We tried to have good manners for most of the last 4 years, but

    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.

    C) Legitimate complaints about Trump and his administration were met with "some people put[ting] political ideology ahead of facts and reality"

    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.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @11:37PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2020, @11:37PM (#1076373)

    OK Liar.

    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @03:31AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 12 2020, @03:31AM (#1076439)
      Not at all. And as proof, here is the proof that the fine people hoax was a lie:

      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):

      TRUMP: ... you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. ...

      And, here is the part that CNN omitted, that shows that what they reported was and still is a lie:

      TRUMP: ... And you had people—and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally—but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 13 2020, @08:37AM (#1076962)

        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.