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Listen…everyone has a story.
Listen to what? I mean it’s not like everyone has a story.
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Whatever happened to good old fashioned board wars.
Not sure how organic these things are, and they’re becoming increasingly less peaceful.
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) November 13, 2016
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Come on. He’s an editor for infowars. Alex Jones is his boss. Deeply paranoid far-right fringe is his internal geography, and you shouldn’t believe a word he or anyone from that site EVER says.
You think the New York Times is “biased”? Alex “Sandy Hook was a false flag operation” Jones is beyond anything the NYTimes could ever dream of being, when it comes to rabidly partisan. And I personally don’t view the Times that way. But no matter.
IMO, Dude, you need to raise your skepticism meter up to eleven whenever you see this kind of thing, and check sources. It makes no sense to try to counter the MSM’s “bias” with whacked out, fringe, tin-foil hat folks on the far right.
IMO, Dude, you need to raise your skepticism meter up to eleven whenever you see this kind of thing, and check sources. It makes no sense to try to counter the MSM’s “bias” with whacked out, fringe, tin-foil hat folks on the far right.
lol. It was a real Craigslist ad, and people screencapped it.
It’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone with tons of disposable income (Soros, maybe?) would orchestrate an inorganic protest in order to keep the movement going. It’s not a big deal, and it’s probably isolated, but it’s worth noting. I don’t see the benefit of sticking to the “these are nothing but organic and peaceful protests” narrative if there are instances where it isn’t. I mean, you don’t want your news spoon-fed to you, do you?
You have to be odd, to be number one.
-- Dr SeussIMO, Dude, you need to raise your skepticism meter up to eleven whenever you see this kind of thing, and check sources. It makes no sense to try to counter the MSM’s “bias” with whacked out, fringe, tin-foil hat folks on the far right.
lol. It was a real Craigslist ad, and people screencapped it.
It’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone with tons of disposable income (Soros, maybe?) would orchestrate an inorganic protest in order to keep the movement going. It’s not a big deal, and it’s probably isolated, but it’s worth noting. I don’t see the benefit of sticking to the “these are nothing but organic and peaceful protests” narrative if there are instances where it isn’t. I mean, you don’t want your news spoon-fed to you, do you?
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I see fake news being spoon fed to Trump followers, and they’re eating it up.
Why post something like that, when you have no idea who created it, no idea if anyone responded to it, and no idea if it’s even real?
You don’t think we have the technology to create what looks like “screen-captures,” or change the ones we do ourselves? I did Internet and computer tech support for fifteen years, and got a communications degree before that — and Art before that one. It’s easy. Extremely easy to manipulate images anyway you want.
Again, I think you need to rev up that skepticism meter for this kind of thing at LEAST as high as you have it set for the NYT. At least.
At least the Republicans had faith in democracy. They were willing to let their party burn to the ground, but…they let the people who showed up at caucuses and primaries decide WITHOUT anyone at RNC HQ deciding the outcome.
Good post Mack. More later. First, just a quick drive-by.
On the Reps not trying to fix things?
That we KNOW OF.
There were no wiki-leaks on the reps.
And I think the odds of them not playing party games are slim to none.
As you said they did maneuver to get Pence in charge of the appointments so where exactly did they play it free and fair?
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I was thinking the same thing after reading Mac’s very good post.
If the GOP had faith in democracy, they wouldn’t have spent so much time — and decades now — trying to suppress the vote by any means necessary. Election after election, they’ve done that, by hook or crook, via slashing chances for early voting, to closing thousands of polling places in, big surprise, likely Democratic areas, to making it as difficult as possible for the poor to organize, register voters and vote themselves.
I see absolutely zero trust in our democracy from the Republicans.
And what do we call it when they block Obama from filling Scalia’s place on the Court? First they tell us that “the people should speak” by way of the next election, even though presidents are elected for four-year terms, not three. Then they changed their minds again when they thought Clinton would win. Then it was all, “We’re going to block ALL of her nominations!” Now, because Trump won the EVs, it’s “The people have spoken! This is a historical win!!” Even though it’s beginning to look like HRC will win the popular vote by several million.
Only 56% of the electorate chose to vote, and a hell of a lot of that has to do with how hard the GOP has made it to do just that. High negatives for both candidates drove a lot of that as well, of course. They were both despised by large numbers of Americans. But if the GOP really wants to claim they support our democracy, they’ll do whatever they can to make it safe, easy and ultra-convenient for everyone to do just that.
One of the best ways? Everyone should be automatically registered at age 18. Nothing to sign. You’re just automatically on the voting rolls. Period. We move the day to a Saturday, or make it a national holiday on whatever day of the week.
The GOP will never, ever go for that, because they know if every registered voter turns up, they lose the vast majority of national elections.
Gays attacked for no good reason? There are countless knock out videos of black on white violence
How are those 2 things related?
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i think he’s saying that there are instances of whites being attacked for no good reason.
does it happen? i know of instances where that has happened.
i’m not saying i agree with him. i don’t think one means that the other is ok.
i can’t speak for what it is like growing up as a working class white man. i also can’t speak to how it is growing up as a gay man.
i just know that there are worldviews so different from one another, i have no idea how you come to any compromise.
i blame it on an increasing disparity in wealth distribution. eliminate that and you see some of these problems disappear. that’s what i suspect anyway. when your security is threatened people start blaming the others. out of fear or whatever. i know it’s not that simple but it’s part of the problem. i think the problems lie MOSTLY upstairs and not down here.
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