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Posted on 09/26/2021 2:41:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
So many of our friends and family live harried lives, working, keeping households, caring for family members that they have no time to question the news accounts they hear on their car radios while chauffeuring the kids to school, shopping, for essentials, and commuting. And if they get newspapers delivered or watch the news, they get only enough for a header and a couple of graphs or a quick byte before other more pressing things require their attention. Those of us with more time and interest in the news get an entirely different picture and that makes our discussions with them so fraught. We live in two different realities.
I give you four examples from this week’s news stories. The anti-Semitism of the Squad (and a not insignificant part of the Democratic party), horse patrols in Del Rio, the Arizona election audit, and the Hunter Biden emails. In three of the examples, one can see how if the error was not inadvertent, the effort to correct the record was either feeble or nonexistent, giving rise to a reasonable assumption that the publishers did not mind leaving readers with an utterly false impression for the benefit of Biden and the Left.
The Anti-Semitism of the Squad
To those of us paying attention, the shift to anti-Semitism from a not insignificant part of the Democratic party is unmistakable. But, probably because they share that view, the publishers of the New York Times have gone to some pains to disguise this. This week, the effort by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her squad, and their hangers-on to strip from the budget funds for Israel’s Iron Dome, a major defensive weapon against rocket attacks, went down in defeat. The Times carried a quote from her on the loss in their print edition,
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Is this about Freerepublic and Covid?
It is about disinformation and how people are duped by it.
26 Sept: UK Daily Mail: The Day of the Nitwits: Remember the Triffids? Well, the Green zealots are nearly as dangerous, argues PETER HITCHENS
We seem to be complacent beyond belief as the signs of change multiply in our midst. Nothing works properly any more. Last week, this supposedly wealthy country experienced empty shelves in the shops...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10028273/PETER-HITCHENS-Remember-Triffids-Green-zealots-nearly-dangerous.html
[that they have no time to question the news accounts they hear on their car radios while chauffeuring the kids to school, shopping, for essentials, and commuting. And if they get newspapers delivered or watch the news, they get only enough for a header and a couple of graphs or a quick byte before other more pressing things require their attention.]
Exactly what the Propaganda Fear Porn Media, oops, I mean “the news” counts on.
Yep.
later.
Clarice Pingy.
“Why Your Otherwise Smart Friends Think Stupid Things”
Because the truth for them is unbearable and thus intolerable. They’d rather hear the fairytale in dreamland than the face the light of day.
Or misinformation.
I'm really getting tired of the application of these "trending" words.
It is simply LIES.
Just say THAT.
And to call competing scientific theories and studies dis/misinformation will absolutely stifle scientific progress.
There are no big brains in big tech or the media that can distinguish any of this, but they suppress what the don't like for political reasons.
I first saw this years ago in the sports pages. About once or twice a season, the writers would do articles on the remaining number of helmetless veterans in the NHL (Al Secord, Guy Lafleur, Rod Langway, Brad Marsh, and others) and how they stood out and how stupid they were to continue playing without headgear. And yet these journalists often ignored the obvious in that the helmets encouraged far more careless and deliberate behaviour with high sticks and hitting from behind and other cheap shots.
“Why Your Otherwise Smart Friends Think Stupid Things”
Albert Einstein was a socialist who thought Lenin was a great humanitarian. Which goes to illustrate that brilliance and intelligence in some fields (such as science and physics) does not necessarily carry over to intelligence in other fields (such as politics).
Ooops, I mean “the news” counts on.
….and repeat everything , all the nuanced and selected misinformation over and over, so that the “news cycle” is consumed with multiple sources of same presentation.
Nothing news is news, or new. Think of the word “Gravitas”, and the cycle of presentation was well entrenched by then. But it was so obviously coordinated.
The only thing that the internet has done for the masses is to make more uniform misinformation available quicker. It is rare that anyone read much beyond a headline, even at FreeRepublic.
Repeated terms to reinforce whatever they’re trying to force upon the sheep. Abortion is “women’s health”, etc
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I call them lazy, sloppy thinkers (if they think at all).
If we think of education and understanding as our ‘mental furniture’...then, THEY have plastic chairs and cheap lawn furniture up there!
It is about disinformation and how people are duped by it.
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"WIT, HUMOR, IRONY, SARCASM, SATIRE, REPARTEE mean a mode of expression intended to arouse amusement. WIT suggests the power to evoke laughter by remarks showing verbal felicity or ingenuity and swift perception especially of the incongruous. a playful wit HUMOR implies an ability to perceive the ludicrous, the comical, and the absurd in human life and to express these usually without bitterness. a sense of humor IRONY applies to a manner of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is seemingly expressed. the irony of the title SARCASM applies to expression frequently in the form of irony that is intended to cut or wound. given to heartless sarcasm SATIRE applies to writing that exposes or ridicules conduct, doctrines, or institutions either by direct criticism or more often through irony, parody, or caricature. a satire on the Congress REPARTEE implies the power of answering quickly, pointedly, or wittily. a dinner guest noted for repartee"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm
The end result of protecting people from their own stupidity is to live in a world full of fools.
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