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And like a lot on the left, Politics Girl is among those lecturing us about "Misinformation."
1 posted on 09/14/2025 10:35:04 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
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PING!


2 posted on 09/14/2025 10:35:58 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (Yes, I am the Toxic Troll Terminator)
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Be on the lookout for:

1. contradictory questions

2. illogical statements

3. sudden changes in tone


3 posted on 09/14/2025 10:36:58 AM PDT by reasonisfaith
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Politics Girl is as ugly on the inside as she is on the outside.


4 posted on 09/14/2025 10:37:36 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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Fearful babble brought on by being exposed as a hate filled social maggot.


5 posted on 09/14/2025 10:38:11 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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Even if, who would buy those?


6 posted on 09/14/2025 10:39:52 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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Quite frankly there isn’t an easy solution to the insanity being pushed by leftists. They used to put the insane into institutions, give them drugs and have psychiatrists try to talk them back to some semblance of sanity.


7 posted on 09/14/2025 10:41:36 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Satan’s Army has two characteristics:
1. Never tell the truth
2. Never quit killing the opposition from ... babies to devout Christians


8 posted on 09/14/2025 10:43:00 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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Crazy Girl says crazy stuff


12 posted on 09/14/2025 10:44:49 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you...CFW)
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These people practice a willful blindness to the truth because to acknowledge the truth of things exposes their belief's as the utter nonsense it is.
14 posted on 09/14/2025 10:49:34 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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15 posted on 09/14/2025 10:51:43 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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These idiots are flopping like a fresh-caught mackerel trying to find a narrative. It’s actually pretty funny and nobody but the other fish is buying it.


16 posted on 09/14/2025 10:52:00 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Leftists, in total and ridiculous denial.


22 posted on 09/14/2025 11:05:59 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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The Art of Hiding Truth in Plain Sight: A Case Study in Modern Disinformation

By the Hermit

In the digital age, truth doesn’t need to be denied—it simply needs to be buried. As Sherlock Holmes once noted, the best place to hide a leaf is in a forest. That’s the guiding principle behind one of the most subtle and dangerous forms of disinformation used today: flooding the information space not with silence, but with noise.

Rather than confronting a damaging truth directly, a more effective tactic is to release a false but similar story just ahead of the real one. The false version is often filled with just enough flaws to be easily discredited. Once it is debunked, the public and the media are primed to dismiss anything resembling it—real or not. By the time the actual story emerges, it’s been tainted by association. It’s just “more of the same,” easily cast aside or labeled a conspiracy theory.

This tactic isn’t new, but it’s become far more potent in the modern era where the speed of digital communication outpaces reflection, and where few have the time or tools to verify the authenticity of every claim. In such an environment, the goal of disinformation isn’t necessarily to convince people of a lie—it’s to create doubt so pervasive that no one knows what to believe.

A clear case study is the controversy surrounding the Hunter Biden laptop. When the story first broke in October 2020, it was met with immediate accusations of being Russian disinformation. A letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials claimed the laptop had “all the classic earmarks” of a foreign intelligence operation. Major social media platforms suppressed the story, citing concerns over foreign interference. Only much later, after the damage was done and the political consequences had passed, did mainstream outlets confirm the laptop’s authenticity. But by then, public trust had already fractured. Each side of the political spectrum had chosen their truth.

This is the core strategy: flood the field with noise, attach disreputable fingerprints to the truth, and make it impossible for the average person to separate fact from fiction. The result is not clarity or consensus, but confusion and disengagement.

Why does this tactic work so well? For one, people are overwhelmed. The average citizen is bombarded daily with conflicting reports, expert opinions, breaking headlines, and emotionally charged commentary. With so much incoming data, the mental bandwidth to verify or question each story simply doesn’t exist. Second, the human brain is wired for bias. If a story confirms what we already believe, we accept it more readily. If it challenges our worldview, we’re more likely to reject it out of hand. Lastly, in a world where truth is constantly disputed, many grow weary of trying to figure it out at all. They tune out. They give up.

And that, ultimately, is the point. Disinformation doesn’t have to fool everyone. It only has to confuse enough people long enough to blunt the impact of the truth. It works best when used by those with institutional power—governments, intelligence agencies, media conglomerates—because they not only have access to platforms, but credibility that can shape initial narratives before facts are verified.

What’s most insidious about this tactic is that it’s hidden in plain sight. Stories come and go. Facts get buried under the next breaking headline. Retractions are whispered, if printed at all. The truth becomes something to be discovered by individuals willing to dig, not something served to the public by institutions once trusted to do that job.

So what can be done? The first step is awareness. Understanding that this tactic exists is itself a form of defense. Waiting for the dust to settle before forming judgments, seeking alternative sources of information across the spectrum, and asking the simplest question—“Who benefits from this?”—can help us cut through the fog.

In a world of manipulated narratives, the truth may not be hidden behind locked doors or in secret files. It may be right in front of us, obscured by a forest of carefully planted lies. Finding it takes effort—but it’s an effort worth making.


31 posted on 09/14/2025 11:10:23 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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“Politics Granny’s” video has aged like soured milk.


54 posted on 09/14/2025 11:38:20 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Je suis Charlie!.)
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OK you crazy leftist tart. Let’s see pictures of the bullets that show the brand, and then show me on their website where they offer that service.

If you can’t do those things, STFU.


58 posted on 09/14/2025 11:50:25 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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And show me where one can purchase such factory message-inscribed ammo? Prove me wrong.


64 posted on 09/14/2025 12:18:28 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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Does that un-murder Charlie if so?


68 posted on 09/14/2025 12:38:11 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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Hmmm, Politics Girl isn’t a ‘girl’, except in her twisted memory, but she clearly is retarded.
71 posted on 09/14/2025 12:43:14 PM PDT by Mastador1
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Politics Girl, like a lot of her fellow leftists, is now reciting utter denialism nonsense about the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk. Like many of them, she frames the assassin as a "right-winger" as opposed to the reality...

The little sh*ts at ABC Sunday with Georgie made a point of describing the killers as 'wearing a shirt with the American Flag emblazoned on it' as if the killer was a conservative rather than a left wing hater and sexual weirdo. And no, I don't mind calling these killers and killer defenders names. They call us deplorables, Hitler, cult members, Nazis etc so calling a killer's enabler a liar isn't a problem. ABC sucks and their people are sickos.

75 posted on 09/14/2025 2:01:32 PM PDT by GOPJ (Charlie Kirk never let photos of his kids faces show. We know why. <P> <I> <B><big><center> )
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You understand, she is totally nuts.


76 posted on 09/14/2025 2:45:52 PM PDT by Ditto
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