Political Rant Funny Images II

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Why is it that I end up having to fact check over 50% of the X and such posts here and frequently find that they are fake?

Can't we please be better than this?

If you believe the images in this thread are supposed to be real, report the fake ones. I’m not aware of any such requirement.

 

[bilby]

Why is it that I end up having to fact check over 50% of the X and such posts here and frequently find that they are fake?

Can't we please be better than this?

No, apparently we can't.

That's why I never look at any social media (unless it gets re-posted here).

It's almost all horseshit. And that's absolutely and completely deliberate.

"Whatever a patron desires to get published is advertising; whatever he wants to keep out of the paper is news" - (L. E. Edwardson, day city editor of the Chicago Herald and Examiner is said to have had this epigraph in a framed placard on his desk; The original author is not known).

Today, it is known to be effectively impossible to keep anything out of the media. So the only defence against news, for those who wish to suppress it, is to bury it under a mountain of nonsense.

The nonsense need not even flatter its subject. It just needs to cast doubt over everything. If Donald Trump shot a man on Fifth Avenue, he could hide that news by publishing a ton of stories that say Bill Clinton or Barack Obama shot the Fifth Avenue victim; But then people are still thinking about the fact that a murder took place, and some are still wondering whether DJT is a killer, so that's only a half-baked misdirection.

Better to say that DJT shot a man on Seventh Avenue.

And then say that he shot a man on Fourth Avenue.

And then say that he shot a man in Chicago.

And in LA.

And so on...

Now we have a hundred stories, all of which make out that Trump is a murderer, but ninety nine of which are provably untrue.

Someone posts the Fifth Avenue story on X, or Facebook, or wherever, and dozens of people (many with completely honest intentions) are going to say "Not this baseless slur again. Look, they said he did that on Eighth Avenue too, but the CCTV footage clearly shows that he wasn't on Eighth that day at all, and the coroner's records show that nobody died on Eighth that day from any cause. The news is always full of stories about stuff he supposedly did, but most of it is obviously untrue, and most of the rest turns out to be untrue as soon as you dig a bit deeper".

This is how it works. Your lies don't exist to establish false facts; They exist to discredit any claims about facts at all.

The aim of the game is not for people to believe something untrue, but for them to disbelieve everything - including that which is in fact true.

I don't know what the defense is, but total avoidance of social media is probably not going to hurt, so that's what I am trying.

 

[crazyfingers]

Why is it that I end up having to fact check over 50% of the X and such posts here and frequently find that they are fake?

Can't we please be better than this?

If you believe the images in this thread are supposed to be real, report the fake ones. I’m not aware of any such requirement.

I believe that if the poster doesn't think that it's real, and it's not obvious, the poster should say so. There is too much misinformation all over this place and it's not honest to post something that someone believes to be false and yet not obviously false.

In other words, it if not obviously fake, say so.

I believe that fake shit is a major reason for disinformation and the resulting polarization. It's far worse on the right wing but clearly infused with left and liberal stuff.

 

[crazyfingers]

It's almost all horseshit. And that's absolutely and completely deliberate.

I agree it's at east usually horseshit. And for the creator it was to create deliberate horseshit.

I wish people would resist posting horseshit here unless it's obvious or saying that it's horseshit.

 

[crazyfingers]

The basic problem is that Trump and his butt lickers lie, do evil shit and say bullshit stuff all the time. Next to nothing said by this administration can be trusted. Poe is broken.

I think that this forum should attempt to separate truth from fiction at least by saying that some X/etc post probably isn't true. Otherwise some people here will believe the fake stuff and that's never good.

Poe is broken and we need to realize that.

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

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She says a lot of stupid and lying stuff but I can find no evidence that she said this.

With her recent speeches she is no longer wearing the cross.