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by arionhardison 71 days ago
I think in some ways we are past it; unfortunately not the funny ways. Some examples:

1. The presidents response to bombing of school girls was basically "stop hitting yourself"

2. Fox news host Dept. of Defense head and the "Dept. of War" name "change"

3. Building a grand ballroom while taking benefits away from hungry kids

4. Elon musk on stage with the chainsaw bragging about acts that save no money but did harm the poorest people on earth.

5. The fact that our media does not really care about any of this unless they get a ratings bump from it

Obviously we all could go on and on.. but the biggest loss IMO is objective truth. There are and will always be things that are true and I feel that we are losing a hold of that so that bad actors can just say to us: "no thats not what your seeing".

Its like in the movie, if they had looked at the plant growing and said: "Thats FAKE NEWS" then run to the field and claimed they did it all.

he claimed they did it to themselves

1 comments

The tricky part is that once everything becomes "obviously absurd,"it gets harder to separate signal from noise