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...and still nothing to say.

Btw, how many times have posters here whined that the Atlantic is "fake news"?

Point: "accuracy" is "do I agree."

We live in a post-truth world now.
Great, innit?

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~FR~

...and still nothing to say.

Btw, how many times have posters here whined that the Atlantic is "fake news"?

Point: "accuracy" is "do I agree."

We live in a post-truth world now.
Great, innit?

So what are the ramifications of that exactly?

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~FR~

...and still nothing to say.

Btw, how many times have posters here whined that the Atlantic is "fake news"?

Point: "accuracy" is "do I agree."

We live in a post-truth world now.
Great, innit?

So what are the ramifications of that exactly?

On here it's led to people ignoring any facts they don't like and accusing anybody who tries to argue that these facts are truer than some nonsense some wanker's put on a blog* of hiding from the truth.
The really pathetic thing is the way that this "democratisation" of reality has allowed people who couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it to accuse everybody else of lying. (The fact that any of them reading this will think I'm talking about somebody is more funny than pathetic.)
I'm surprised you've not noticed...

*(not just breitbart, of course: some on here are fond of conspiracy blogs as well)

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~FR~

...and still nothing to say.

Btw, how many times have posters here whined that the Atlantic is "fake news"?

Point: "accuracy" is "do I agree."

We live in a post-truth world now.
Great, innit?

So what are the ramifications of that exactly?

On here it's led to people ignoring any facts they don't like and accusing anybody who tries to argue that these facts are truer than some nonsense some wanker's put on a blog* of hiding from the truth.
The really pathetic thing is the way that this "democratisation" of reality has allowed people who couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it to accuse everybody else of lying. (The fact that any of them reading this will think I'm talking about somebody is more funny than pathetic.)
I'm surprised you've not noticed...

*(not just breitbart, of course: some on here are fond of conspiracy blogs as well)

Some even intentionally use it to look cute and smart. And people on here will think I'm talking specifically about them.

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~FR~

...and still nothing to say.

Btw, how many times have posters here whined that the Atlantic is "fake news"?

Point: "accuracy" is "do I agree."

We live in a post-truth world now.
Great, innit?

So what are the ramifications of that exactly?

On here it's led to people ignoring any facts they don't like and accusing anybody who tries to argue that these facts are truer than some nonsense some wanker's put on a blog* of hiding from the truth.
The really pathetic thing is the way that this "democratisation" of reality has allowed people who couldn't tell the truth if their lives depended on it to accuse everybody else of lying. (The fact that any of them reading this will think I'm talking about somebody is more funny than pathetic.)
I'm surprised you've not noticed...

*(not just breitbart, of course: some on here are fond of conspiracy blogs as well)

Some even intentionally use it to look cute and smart. And people on here will think I'm talking specifically about them.

No dear, everybody knows that you're talking about yourself.
(The number of our resident trumptooners who are highly narcissistic is to my mind a lot more interesting than the ramifications of the whole post-truth thang. Do you support him because he's obviously one of you? Would you still do so if he'd stood as a democrat?)

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You creepers keep screaming that he is a Democrat...

If you believed that you would worship literally anything he did out of habit

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You creepers keep screaming that he is a Democrat...

If you believed that you would worship literally anything he did out of habit

That's because you believe everyone is the same partisan hack you are, and it continually distorts your judgment.

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FR

More from The Atlantic:

The Trump era has given rise to a vast alternative left-wing media infrastructure that operates largely out of the view of casual news consumers, but commands a massive audience and growing influence in liberal America. There are polemical podcasters and partisan click farms; wild-eyed conspiracists and cynical fabulists. Some traffic heavily in rumor and wage campaigns of misinformation; others are merely aggregators and commentators who have carved out a corner of the web for themselves. But taken together, they form a media universe where partisan hysteria is too easily stoked, and fake news can travel at the speed of light.

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How the Left Lost Its Mind

Polemicists, conspiracists, and outright fabulists are feeding an alternative media landscape—where the implausibility of a claim is no bar to its acceptance.

Last month, Democratic Senator Ed Markey delivered what seemed like an explosive bit of news during an interview with CNN: A grand jury had been impaneled in New York, he said, to investigate the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia.

The only problem: It wasn’t true.

The precise origins of the rumor are difficult to pin down, but it had been ricocheting around social media for days before Markey’s interview. The story had no reliable sourcing, and not a single credible news outlet touched it—but it had been fervently championed by The Palmer Report, a liberal blog known for peddling conspiracy theories, and by anti-Trump Twitter crusaders like Louise Mensch. Soon enough, prominent people with blue checkmarks by their names were amplifying it with “Big if true”-type Tweets. And by May 11, the story had migrated from the bowels of the internet to the mouth of a United States senator.

More here

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"Never"...

You're such an intelligent little drama queen [:D]