I know.....very good, yet anti Trump ;-)Yes, love him.
He appears on the ABCs The Weekly as the UK correspondent sometimes.
He is very funny.
He takes it all on. The Royals and the Conservative Party aren't safe from him either.
Definitely not a Fox stooge repeating right wing mantra, way better than that.
Well, at least we know which echo chamber you live in bas.The "Truth " Knobby ? Your truth ? , my truth ? The truth as spoken by the Son of God (in the Black House ) which is faithfully followed by multi million followers.
The truth of White Supremacy ? That our Western Civilization is being threatened by the swarming dark heathen/Islamic masses.
The truth of Fake science that is spooking everyone with tales of Global Warming which are just fantasies of easily spooked, gullibile lefties who don't understand the way the world works.
The Truth of anti-vaccinators who KNOW that "Medical science" is destroying the lives of our children with their deadly vaccines.
The Truth of those who KNOW that children were never killed in those school shootings, that George Floyd was never slowly killed in public but in fact saw his own funeral. That all thse mass shootings are done by actors and the Deep State.
We live in a post-truth world. The determined denial of reality, the trashing of evidence, the creation and promotion of deliberate false narratives without consequence is well and truly alive.
As the Son of God so aptly prophesied.
"I can shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Avenue and and not lose voters"
I know.....very good, yet anti Trump ;-)
, was just replying to a post which i find nearly insulting accusing me of feeding on Fox news..would feel as insulted if saying i am a Guardian subscriber even if i have to guiltily admit i was reading the Guardian site daily as one of the few feeds i had access to behind the Chinese internet wall...says it all..
As @basilio points out, the issue is not about what we can easily find to be true, but with what is peddled as true from the outset despite there being nothing that supports it.The truth is out there, I'm not denying that, just suggesting that most people won't seek to find it on most subjects and that even with really trivial examples, eg the band example, there's often ignorance in practice.
Just point to the evidence, ie. what makes their statement false, misleading or unintelligible.So do we ban people for saying bullshite or teach people to think for themselves and not believe anything they read ?
Just point to the evidence, ie. what makes their statement false, misleading or unintelligible.
Good forums are self moderating.Yes, I agree, whose job should it be to do this, the platform's management or other users ?
Very good point: biaised news and propaganda only work on dumb/uneducated people but you can not expect a majority to understand where global warming as described on the mainstream is bull****: to take a heavily heated..pun..subjectSo do we ban people for saying bullshite or teach people to think for themselves and not believe anything they read ?
You are commenting on a topic which is a matter of settled science.Very good point: biaised news and propaganda only work on dumb/uneducated people but you can not expect a majority to understand where global warming as described on the mainstream is bull****: to take a heavily heated..pun..subject
you need to have a basic understanding of thermodynamic/entropy, size of athmosphere, weight of gases, then chemistry most people have no clue about co2, even less of radiation/ wavelength. So you turn to a reference.
I turn to reference when i do not know an area..and that reference sadly can be biaised, wrong or deliberately manipulative..not to mentioned areas where it is not black/white..can we still say that?
Ultimately fake news appear..
The former is impossible to implement in practice, it requires verifying billions of statements every day being made everywhere that humans inhabit, whereas the latter only requires educating each person once.So do we ban people for saying bullshite or teach people to think for themselves and not believe anything they read ?
Free speech works.The former is impossible to implement in practice, it requires verifying billions of statements every day being made everywhere that humans inhabit, whereas the latter only requires educating each person once.
Free speech works.
Censorship breeds more extremism.
This is a "fake news" thread!The right to openly discuss all issues leads to a better society.
If we cannot have a discussion about racism with those that are effected by it, how are we to learn what it is that offends them.
If we cannot ask someone who is "different in any way from typical, average" how does your difference effect your every day life ? then we will never know.
To viciously attack anyone that raises the question simply causes resentment
A recent example is BLM, it was/is considered aggressive if a person expressed the belief that ALL lives matter.
No where was the person disagreeing that BL did not matter, in fact they were actually supporting them as black or white, they hold that all life is important.
By attacking these sincere, caring people the BLM mobs actually alienate those who may have had sympathy for them, now they are offended and consider the mobs to be just that, mobs of stirrers
You may expose a zealot to truth, but you cannot make her(him it them, they zer etc.) think!
But in response, the view that ALL lives matter can only be true when black lives also matter. Currently, that does not seem to be the case.
Ignoring it taking a foothold is just as bad.....Luckily not everybody is a zealot.
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