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The Independent has a good turn of phrase to describe the recent rise of OAN and Newsmax, saying that it's "driven by their Donald Trump loyalist viewers’ demand for a fictional universe in which their god-emperor won the election."
 
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I’ve started a few threads and made a load of posts along the line that I believe social media is clearly making the world way more shitty than it would be otherwise. The majority of responses are always along the lines that extreme opinions are no more common these days, just more obvious. Surely that’s not true? How can anyone look at how toxic/insane online discourse has become and remain in denial about the real life consequences?!
I agree completely. We live in a world where people cite youtube and social media as their sources and at the same time dismiss msm as fake. I recently met someone who believed, among other things, that Hollywood and Democrats are satanic pedophile rings. Her sources were verious videos and things she had read on facebook communities.

I suppose these kinds of people have always existed but with social media they are now able to find likeminded folks and make their insane ideas look and sound halfway legit.

There is no truth anymore.
 

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I agree completely. We live in a world where people cite youtube and social media as their sources and at the same time dismiss msm as fake. I recently met someone who believed, among other things, that Hollywood and Democrats are satanic pedophile rings. Her sources were verious videos and things she had read on facebook communities.

I suppose these kinds of people have always existed but with social media they are now able to find likeminded folks and make their insane ideas look and sound halfway legit.

There is no truth anymore.
"I do my own research" really is just code nowadays for "I watched an unsourced, unverified YouTube video". They make it sound like they've perused through the data themselves instead of just getting their info from a less than reliable source.
 

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BOOM!

Was my favourite, when everyone had exclusive revealing stories that were going to bring Trump down.. I think it was William Legate or maybe Dworkin that always had loads of tease tweets of a picture of a cannon with the fuse getting burned down more and more until the final revealing Tweet came..

And it was always a massive let down.
the walls are closing in for Trump,
Drumpf is finished

[rinse and repeat]

Trump loses election.....see I told you Trump is finished, now donate here and subscribe here
 

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"I do my own research" really is just code nowadays for "I watched an unsourced, unverified YouTube video". They make it sound like they've perused through the data themselves instead of just getting their info from a less than reliable source.
I'm not for certain but I'd wager Loose Change started the whole internet video research bullshit.
 

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The plan seems to be: Get some kind of case sent to the SCOTUS, lose the case, blame "The Swap" / Fake conservative judges, whinge the whole way to Inauguration Day, veiled tweets about a coup, and then milking his cultists till he dies?
 

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The plan seems to be: Get some kind of case sent to the SCOTUS, lose the case, blame "The Swap" / Fake conservative judges, whinge the whole way to Inauguration Day, veiled tweets about a coup, and then milking his cultists till he dies?
From his prison bed hopefully.
 

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"I do my own research" really is just code nowadays for "I watched an unsourced, unverified YouTube video". They make it sound like they've perused through the data themselves instead of just getting their info from a less than reliable source.
Yeah, and “do your own research”, as in “I have no way of proving what batshit idea I just told you but you can find people online who agree with me”.
 

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Yeah, and “do your own research”, as in “I have no way of proving what batshit idea I just told you but you can find people online who agree with me”.
You also have the "Google makes it almost impossible to find the truth" stuff.
 

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Yeah, and “do your own research”, as in “I have no way of proving what batshit idea I just told you but you can find people online who agree with me”.

That and the constant whataboutism is what really pisses me off. It's always 'But Obama' or 'But Hillary'

It's like they can't understand even if who they are equating to broke the law, it doesn't make it right they are defending Trump for doing it.
 

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That and the constant whataboutism is what really pisses me off. It's always 'But Obama' or 'But Hillary'

It's like they can't understand even if who they are equating to broke the law, it doesn't make it right they are defending Trump for doing it.
When they use "But Obama" or "But Hillary" I like to remind them that they want to see Obama and Hillary prosecuted for these similar things so why is it different when Trump does it. Always makes their brains melt.
 

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Maybe legal experts here can comment but with all these tweets about the judges, can he be held in contempt of court or perverting the course of justice?
 

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People would try to own pro-life people by pointing out they support the death penalty, but now they force that comparison themselves

 

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Poor Brian not knowing how email merge works.
Im sure he knows it’s Mail merge. But he probably things these million record databases are vetted. Which is just as stupid.

What’s more galling is that these gonads think that;

- Signing up and ‘trashing him’ ever sees his trashing get read.
- Tweeting the response widely helps his cause.

It enables and encourages another needless silent fight. Trumpers, Bots, ‘The Left’ jump into a scrap. Retweets. Amplification. No end product.

It’s all nonsensical noise. No good comes of engaging with that guy. If they want to do something meaningful, go throw a brick through the window of one of his properties at 4am. It’s a four or five digit dollar cost to him, reasonably directly. I don’t condone it, but it’s something meaningful.
 

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Im sure he knows it’s Mail merge. But he probably things these million record databases are vetted. Which is just as stupid.

What’s more galling is that these gonads think that;

- Signing up and ‘trashing him’ ever sees his trashing get read.
- Tweeting the response widely helps his cause.

It enables and encourages another needless silent fight. Trumpers, Bots, ‘The Left’ jump into a scrap. Retweets. Amplification. No end product.

It’s all nonsensical noise. No good comes of engaging with that guy. If they want to do something meaningful, go throw a brick through the window of one of his properties at 4am. It’s a four or five digit dollar cost to him, reasonably directly. I don’t condone it, but it’s something meaningful.
Take a dump on one of his golf courses.
 

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^That kind of shit will be used by those 21 pricks as a foundation for their Post-Trump strategy.
 

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Don't know how others feel but as a black man, Tim Scott disgusts me the most one that list.
 
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