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If Donald Trump had just spent 30 minutes more a day reading books or briefings, we wouldn’t be litigating misinformation, disinformation, flat earthers, fact c

If Donald Trump had just spent 30 minutes more a day reading books or briefings, we wouldn’t be litigating misinformation, disinformation, flat earthers, fact checking, conspiracies, boomers, etc. Thousands of rants never written, tens of thousands of podcast episodes would have never been recorded, millions of tweets never tweeted. You actually only needed to improve the literacy of one man to make irrelevant 99.99% of the problems described here. Under the Biden presidency all this shit will still exist, it won’t disappear on noon Jan 20 2021, but it will stop mattering. Treating Trump as a constant while blaming everyone else (like this does) is the trap.

freewilly1040 6y ago
This (extremely dubiously) assumes a sincere effort to tell the truth on Trump’s part
MattGaiser 6y ago
You assume that Trump is not just deliberately lying. While Trump might or might not be smart, he is surrounded by people like Pompeo and Cotton who certainly are. They lie and mislead too.
throwaway201103 6y ago
> Under the Biden presidency all this shit will still exist ... but it will stop mattering. Why is that? Because Biden is truthful? Because he won't be tweeting 10 times a day? Because the media will (effectively) do the tweeting for him? Because the media will simply not challenge him, and ignore his critics? All politicians lie, or perhaps to put it more charitably, they promote a very one-sided point of view. It's almost the definition of politics. The only reason anything will change under Biden is that many of the people with the biggest megaphones support him.
- therouwboat 6y ago
  News has been trump trump trump for the past 4 years and you say he doesnt get his voice heard?
  - AlexandrB 6y ago
    The nature of the modern right is a perpetual persecution complex. It doesn't matter that we just finished 4 years of a republican president with two of those years including a senate and congressional majority. According to their rhetoric they're still the voiceless, powerless underdogs persecuted by "the system".
    - throwaway201103 6y ago
      "Vast right-wing conspiracy" It's politics, as I said. Two sides of the same coin. It's not a right/left thing.
      - loopz 6y ago
        Exactly. People get lost in ideology, and lose their principles. Left is just a reaction to Right, and vica versa. Both parties hostages in a two party system of stalemates. These political axis are defunct in the rest of the world too. They serve only the purpose of career politicians. And no, the "rebels" aren't the "final solution"..
    - nostromo 6y ago
      There's no question Democrats have a stranglehold on our education system, news media, Hollywood, and all major tech companies. That's what drives the feeling of frustration -- of being voiceless. (The left has rightly told America that representation matters, but it only seems to matter on identity axes. Meanwhile 50% of America has no newspapers, few schools, no social networks, few entertainment options...) Besides, there is no shortage of left-wing persecution complex. It underpins so much of the woke movement it's been given it's own neologism: grievance olympics.
      - loopz 6y ago
        If it's a call for platforms for lying, it is not welcome.
  - throwaway201103 6y ago
rootusrootus 6y ago
I don't think it'll go away, it's still going to be a huge problem. But Trump was definitely a super-spreader.
arrosenberg 6y ago
> If Donald Trump had just spent 30 minutes more a day reading books or briefings, we wouldn’t be litigating misinformation, disinformation, flat earthers, fact checking, conspiracies, boomers, etc. He was elected to lead, not to read!
loopz 6y ago
He's following the sociopath rulebook. He knows what he's saying and doing. First step is the charm stage. Hell, he's the top boss and complained about election fraud months before election even started. He did nothing about it other than sabotaging US Post. Later he latches unto his anchor to defraud half the population, to spread FUD and lies. The fact people can state this without reprecussion, makes him a weak liar. Everyone knows this, and this is how he speaks first, in order to disarm allegations about what he's doing. Just project all his words back to him, and you now have a list of all wrongdoings, ironically.

freewilly1040 6y ago

This (extremely dubiously) assumes a sincere effort to tell the truth on Trump’s part

MattGaiser 6y ago

You assume that Trump is not just deliberately lying. While Trump might or might not be smart, he is surrounded by people like Pompeo and Cotton who certainly are. They lie and mislead too.

throwaway201103 6y ago

> Under the Biden presidency all this shit will still exist ... but it will stop mattering. Why is that? Because Biden is truthful? Because he won't be tweeting 10 times a day? Because the media will (effectively) do the tweeting for him? Because the media will simply not challenge him, and ignore his critics? All politicians lie, or perhaps to put it more charitably, they promote a very one-sided point of view. It's almost the definition of politics. The only reason anything will change under Biden is that many of the people with the biggest megaphones support him.

therouwboat 6y ago
News has been trump trump trump for the past 4 years and you say he doesnt get his voice heard?
- AlexandrB 6y ago
  The nature of the modern right is a perpetual persecution complex. It doesn't matter that we just finished 4 years of a republican president with two of those years including a senate and congressional majority. According to their rhetoric they're still the voiceless, powerless underdogs persecuted by "the system".
  - throwaway201103 6y ago
    "Vast right-wing conspiracy" It's politics, as I said. Two sides of the same coin. It's not a right/left thing.
    - loopz 6y ago
      Exactly. People get lost in ideology, and lose their principles. Left is just a reaction to Right, and vica versa. Both parties hostages in a two party system of stalemates. These political axis are defunct in the rest of the world too. They serve only the purpose of career politicians. And no, the "rebels" aren't the "final solution"..
  - nostromo 6y ago
    There's no question Democrats have a stranglehold on our education system, news media, Hollywood, and all major tech companies. That's what drives the feeling of frustration -- of being voiceless. (The left has rightly told America that representation matters, but it only seems to matter on identity axes. Meanwhile 50% of America has no newspapers, few schools, no social networks, few entertainment options...) Besides, there is no shortage of left-wing persecution complex. It underpins so much of the woke movement it's been given it's own neologism: grievance olympics.
    - loopz 6y ago
      If it's a call for platforms for lying, it is not welcome.
- throwaway201103 6y ago

rootusrootus 6y ago

I don't think it'll go away, it's still going to be a huge problem. But Trump was definitely a super-spreader.

arrosenberg 6y ago

> If Donald Trump had just spent 30 minutes more a day reading books or briefings, we wouldn’t be litigating misinformation, disinformation, flat earthers, fact checking, conspiracies, boomers, etc. He was elected to lead, not to read!

loopz 6y ago

He's following the sociopath rulebook. He knows what he's saying and doing. First step is the charm stage. Hell, he's the top boss and complained about election fraud months before election even started. He did nothing about it other than sabotaging US Post. Later he latches unto his anchor to defraud half the population, to spread FUD and lies. The fact people can state this without reprecussion, makes him a weak liar. Everyone knows this, and this is how he speaks first, in order to disarm allegations about what he's doing. Just project all his words back to him, and you now have a list of all wrongdoings, ironically.