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Do you have a direct link to a source for that? The candidate's twitter feed or blog, an uncut youtube video, etc.? Emphatically not Fox News, MSNBC, NYT, etc.
by donw 6y ago
Do you have a direct link to a source for that? The candidate's twitter feed or blog, an uncut youtube video, etc.?
Emphatically not Fox News, MSNBC, NYT, etc. The lot of them have fully sacrificed their credibility over the past decade.
I keep seeing things like "Candidate Claims That We Must Kill All Babies And Eat Their Flesh" happily bounced around between media sites and their captive talking heads, and when you actually dig out what the candidate actually said, it's totally mundane, the exact opposite of what was claimed, or the claim itself was outright fabricated ("an anonymous source tells us...")
Not saying you're wrong, but in the age of fake news, direct sources are really the only believable thing.
- Pfhreak 6y agohttps://mobile.twitter.com/Jemsinger/status/1312457634306424833 https://mobile.twitter.com/Jemsinger/status/1312457634306424... “The problem with Democracy — you can look at quotes from famous Chinese leaders like Mao, Gorbachev — they loved Democracy because Democracy is a step toward socialism, which is a step towards communism.”
- donw 6y agoThanks for sharing a link with context! The quote is a little out of context -- the candidate is arguing for keeping a representative, rather than a direct democracy -- but he absolutely does say that direct democracy is a step towards communism at the end.