I'm just a working class yahoo so I used to rely on you people to point out when the bastards in power were lying to me & manipulating me.
Now I approach the news as if it were written on opposite day. If a major news organization tells me I need to look right these days I just automatically look left.
I know it's not much of a strategy but my options seem limited these days.
I'm just a working class yahoo so I used to rely on you people to point out when the bastards in power were lying to me & manipulating me.
Now I approach the news as if it were written on opposite day. If a major news organization tells me I need to look right these days I just automatically look left.
I know it's not much of a strategy but my options seem limited these days.
I do that, too! You'd have to be a brain-dead zombie not to! Just look at all the fake news since 2015 or so: Trump is a Russian asset, Trump is a racist, all cops are racist pigs, "mostly peaceful protests," "summer of love" (as cities were burning), Covid came from a wet market, the shots will stop transmission & protect against the virus; well, at least the shots will keep you out of the hospital, the shots are totally safe! Then there was January 6th, in which a bunch of boomers & Gen X folks armed with nothing but cell phones and Trump banners attempted to "stage a coup," followed by the Afghanistan debacle, the CIA mucking around in Ukraine to start a proxy war, etc. . .
Did you ever see any old Oprah shows where Oprah says some sort of cliched platitude & the whole damn audience nods in unison? That used to creep me out no end.
Now that the entire Democratic Party has seemingly mutated into an Oprah audience, gleefully nodding away at absurdities, I have come to realize that I didn't know the meaning of "creeped out."
I had a similar epiphany some years ago, but it took Glenn Greewald to hit me over the head.
Greenwald said during the Obama regime: "If you want to know what Obama's going to do, just listen to what he says and turn it around 180 degrees. If he says he's seeking peace, war's coming".
I've actually been using the phrase "in the before times" to describe life before 2015 or so, when I first started noticing something was seriously off.
right but the problem really is the supine who chide you for looking to the left. "They told you not to do that!" those are the ones stifling speech and are the most dangerous as they are our friends and family. the best example of the women who refuse to say anything as transgender men invade their most private spaces.
I'm just a working class yahoo so I used to rely on you people to point out when the bastards in power were lying to me & manipulating me.
Now I approach the news as if it were written on opposite day. If a major news organization tells me I need to look right these days I just automatically look left.
I know it's not much of a strategy but my options seem limited these days.
I do that, too! You'd have to be a brain-dead zombie not to! Just look at all the fake news since 2015 or so: Trump is a Russian asset, Trump is a racist, all cops are racist pigs, "mostly peaceful protests," "summer of love" (as cities were burning), Covid came from a wet market, the shots will stop transmission & protect against the virus; well, at least the shots will keep you out of the hospital, the shots are totally safe! Then there was January 6th, in which a bunch of boomers & Gen X folks armed with nothing but cell phones and Trump banners attempted to "stage a coup," followed by the Afghanistan debacle, the CIA mucking around in Ukraine to start a proxy war, etc. . .
Did you ever see any old Oprah shows where Oprah says some sort of cliched platitude & the whole damn audience nods in unison? That used to creep me out no end.
Now that the entire Democratic Party has seemingly mutated into an Oprah audience, gleefully nodding away at absurdities, I have come to realize that I didn't know the meaning of "creeped out."
I had a similar epiphany some years ago, but it took Glenn Greewald to hit me over the head.
Greenwald said during the Obama regime: "If you want to know what Obama's going to do, just listen to what he says and turn it around 180 degrees. If he says he's seeking peace, war's coming".
Good ole Barack Bush, as I used to call him.
Here let me use the phrase "these days" one more time just for good measure.
Sheesh!
I've actually been using the phrase "in the before times" to describe life before 2015 or so, when I first started noticing something was seriously off.
1984 Is arriving , just 40 years late
A lot of people saying it these days.
right but the problem really is the supine who chide you for looking to the left. "They told you not to do that!" those are the ones stifling speech and are the most dangerous as they are our friends and family. the best example of the women who refuse to say anything as transgender men invade their most private spaces.
Exactly - "DO NOT do your own research" said the CNN Potato, Brian Stelter. "That's DANGEROUS! Listen to the eXpErts!"
What's now called "misinformation" used to be called "opposing viewpoints".
CNN Indoctrination Kids
https://youtu.be/Mn-EQg9bODI?si=DgBQjDK43CseoJ3F
Exactly. The more someone is vilified by MSM, the more I love them.
Your approach to "news" consumption is not irrational given the near total structural rot throughout our media system.