Funny how he is always wearing those one color maga hats, as if he wants to show and hide his support at the same time
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Isn't everyone on xitter now subjected to his bullshit whether they want to be or not? I don't go in the Nazi bar, so I don't know...
NBC News out here pretending not to know how propaganda works
Does fact checking even work anymore? At this point it almost feels like a waste of time, and maybe even counterproductive.
Like, it doesn’t matter how hard I fact check things anymore. It doesn’t matter how many statistics I can pull out, or how simple and factual my response is.
People want to be wrong. Their mind is made up and their desire to have that opinion is unflinching. Fact checks might not even reach them in their corners of the internet. Telling someone who is choosing to be wrong that they are wrong will not do anything.
I honestly don’t know what to do instead, this seems like it is going to need something that is basically cult deprogramming.
I’d imagine it works for some people, just not the ones you’d want it to.
Fact checking will only work on people who care about facts, and those people aren’t the problem. Though stopping doing it won’t exactly help the situation either
Turns out Elon Musk may be the most prolific liar of the century.
...So far, we still have the climate wars to come at some point in the next 75 years; plenty of lying opportunities for particularly motivated bastards there.
Why is he not in jail for election interference? Oh wait, there's a billion reasons.
LIES.
call them what they are, ffs.
The media rarely can find it in them to use the l-word: lies. Just like they have a very hard time using the f-word: fascism.
I worry this fucking evil bastard is why the election could be lost.
He really got himself some MAGA caps in all colors, but red
He's a special snowflake