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>We should be aware of current events I have come to the conclusion that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to n
by qsera 4mo ago
>We should be aware of current events
I have come to the conclusion that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion.
For example you say "fascism in America", and I wonder is this guy for real? Fascism? If this was true how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or not locked up?
So imagine if you were running a new outlet. All of your readers will unquestioningly accept your flawed narrative! And imagine there are multiple of such flawed/biased news outlets.
There is no way to know the truth. This is painfully clear when you read stuff in the news that you have first hand knowledge about...There is some name to the fallacy of why people still believe in news despite that...
- cocacola1 4mo agoIf there’s no way to know the truth, how do you know you’ve come to the right conclusion?
- qsera 4mo agoWhat conclusion? I am talking about not having any conclusions at all.
- cocacola1 4mo ago> *I have come to the conclusion* that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion.
- qsera 4mo agoThat is a conclusion that is arrived over course over long time and many experiences/thought. It is not a news or blog article I read once and made me conclude it.
- XorNot 4mo agoHave you considered that maybe most of the posters on this website weren't born yesterday and have also spent a lifetime absorbing facts from many sources and experiences? In fact most people have, in some way.
- kelipso 4mo agoMost of the posters in this website are teenagers or in their early twenties. Let’s not be delusional here, this is still the internet.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoThere may have been a time when most people on the Internet were in their teens and early twenties, but I don't think that has been true for a long time.
- kelipso 4mo agoI think it's still the case, especially during summer. People get busy and less interested in online bs once they graduate high school or college. I've noticed, someone mentions their age here and it skews younger pretty often.
- Supermancho 4mo agoI don't believe you've made a case here.
- qsera 4mo agoBut what is your point? Can't one come to a world view that is vastly different from his contemporaries?
- jwiz 4mo agoI think he means the conclusion you were talking about when you said "I have come to the conclusion..."
- inigyou 4mo agoYou concluded that America is not fascist.
- qsera 4mo agoI did not. I meant that even in the news, there is nothing to substantiate such a point of view.
- inigyou 4mo agoThen you clearly think it is not.
- Supermancho 4mo agoie null finding versus negative finding Neither are a positive finding.
- inigyou 4mo agoSo you don't know whether America is fascist or not? Because you clearly presented it as if you believe America is not fascist.
- Supermancho 4mo agoYou replied to the wrong person.
- alextingle 4mo ago> how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or not locked up I think you'll find that some of them actually are locked up, and a few of them are dead.
- Hikikomori 4mo agoSo it can't be fascism or be close it it until we have fully operational death camps?
- xorcist 4mo agoFascism is a way overused term. Personally I tend to avoid it unless we're seeing paramilitary forces shooting civilians in the face. Other people may have lower thresholds.
- NeutralCrane 4mo agoWhat about shooting them in the chest while they drive their car? Or shooting them in the back after they’ve been detained?
- xorcist 4mo agoNo further explanations should be necessary.
- inigyou 4mo agoDid you know Hitler was the president of Germany for about ten years before he started the holocaust? Was he a fascist during that time?
- unparagoned 4mo agoIs not instant. But if trump stays in power he’d pack the courts(not that he listens to the courts anyway), put people in power that would just do what he says and he would start locking people up the instant he could. It certainly is a slow walk to fasicism