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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/3/2017 11:09:29 AM

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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?

So what are the ramifications of that exactly?

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/3/2017 11:12:33 AM

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The posts on this forum.

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/3/2017 11:35:24 AM

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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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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/3/2017 11:36:50 AM

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I'm glad you've come to appreciate the Atlantic.

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/3/2017 1:56:26 PM

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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?

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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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/3/2017 4:39:06 PM

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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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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/4/2017 4:39:30 AM

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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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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/4/2017 6:23:36 AM

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

~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?)

Ohhh! A condescending little leftist projecting. How sweet.

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/4/2017 6:54:21 AM

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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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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/4/2017 7:53:29 AM

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He said stood as a Democrat, thicko.

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/4/2017 9:19:13 AM

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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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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/7/2017 10:52:04 PM

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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.

The irony is hilarious, every time you scream about anyone else being partisan

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/8/2017 5:15:10 PM

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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.

And not even one real person named in all that BS. Rubbish.

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/8/2017 5:19:15 PM

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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

After Markey’s office apologized for spreading the unsubstantiated story, there was a mild flurry of articles warning of “fake news” aimed at the left, and then everyone moved on.

At least Markey apologized. Never has the Right done so.

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/8/2017 5:39:11 PM

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"Never"...

You're such an ignorant little drama queen

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/8/2017 5:42:53 PM

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show us the firings for nutsucker fake news, the groveling apologies, you little peri-menopausal drag queen flouncing around in high dudgeon,

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RE: The Atlantic: How the Left Lost Its Mind - 7/8/2017 8:03:25 PM

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