Its scary that this is where we are heading. Journalism was a vocation that dealt with facts and opinion pieces were then based on their opinion. This allowed people to make up their own minds. Now people in the industry must conform to the mantra otherwise they are out of work. Its a shame that the only facts laid bare are coming from the gript and ewan. These facts are then chastised due to the fact they are coming from people with wrong opinions.
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“The only facts are coming from Gript and Qewan.”
Deary, deary, deary me.
The quoted line above shows just that propaganda unfortunately works. I imagine taking leave of your senses can be very intoxicating.
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But sure you swallow bullshit from left wing sources as if it were cast in stone and would argue to the death even when you’re proven wrong.
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Social media has changed the landscape completely, and have way too much power in controlling narratives. Look at the issue of where Covid originated, nobody knows the answer, but by April of last year it was decided by most of the mainstream media, Twitter, and Facebook that Covid had a natural origin and the lab leak theory was a conspiracy theory. Anyone posting or linking articles that argued it could be true were either banned or had the content removed.
Why was this? Because the “experts” said a lab leak was impossible based on science. The director of EcoHealth was the lead author on an article published in April 2020 that stated categorically it could not have been a lab leak. Suddenly that became established science. An article that had the normal disclaimer “no conflicts of interest” at the bottom which he signed. Surely someone in the media should have figured out that as the same person was funding the lab in question in Wuhan they had a very obvious conflict of interest. In particular as the lab in question was doing gain of function research on bat coronaviruses to make them more likely to infect humans.
A year later, with no new evidence, it’s suddenly OK to talk about a lab leak.
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A huge part of it. Have a read of this.
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If only everybody was as smart as Sid.He’s always right about everything.
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Listen to JRE #1640, granted the first 30 minutes is conversation and a pretty hilarious on air character assassination by Josh Rogin but he fairly nails the situation re the origin story after
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Believe whatever you want to believe. That’s what you’ve been doing for your entire time on this forum, so nothing I say will ever persuade your radicalised mind of anything.
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You used to be a fairly sensible lad. But you’ve gone off the deep end over the last couple of years.
Looks like you’ve poked a bear
On the contrary a lot of what you say has convinced me of something.
I would have to say the feeling is very mutual on that.
Are these fuckers really converting or radicalising people tho? Maybe a small minority… But the type of people who seek out far right or far left groups or such material are already thinking that way… Of course it does embolden them as they are now part of a group with goals… But it’s no harm to have these right and left weirdos flushed out for the world to see and engaging with other freaks rather than sniffing bicycle seats in the background and unbeknownst to society.
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They convert a small amount but the problem is this small amount is highly vocal because they think they’ve discovered the eighth secret of Fatima.
When in reality they’re just easily exploitable dimwits desperately looking for a religious cause to preach.
And so it grows, slowly but steadily.
Once you normalise fuckwittery, there’s no knowing where it leads. History tells us that.
Gript and Cosgrave and Leo Sherlock and the rest are about normalising fuckwittery.
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Of course not, but the wokistas need an enemy, no use making out you’re storming the beaches at Normandy every day on twitter unless you can allege you are fighting pure evil.
Gript are right wing provocateurs. But the media have given them enough tap ins to lend them huge credibility. McGuirk seems to really send a lot of posters over the edge. Anyone got any evidence of what makes him so terrible? or is it just he doesn’t share the same opinions.
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This is literally what populist right-wing politics and its associated shitmedia is about. Claim an imagined enemy and paint as evil, evil, evil.
Question everything, except the propagandists.
Not once have I ever seen anybody who praises Gript here question it, what it is, how it is funded, what is its aim. Not once.
Why dont you fill in the forum about Gript then o wise one.I only see lads on here talking about it
Again, you’re just proving me right. The linguistics of the way you post now are a dead giveaway of that nasty spot where cynicism meets gullibility. One liners, poor attempts at sarcasm. It’s a long time since I’ve seen any sort of substantial contribution from you here.
I think it depends a lot on what the crazies are claiming or campaigning for and it’s likely impact on society. Just one example, we have a big upswing in violent crime and murders in US cities over the past year, not too surprisingly given the pandemic. Yet there are nutters in Congress who believe the answer is to get rid of the police and end incarceration. There’s an effort here in Cali to release 76k prisoners early, 63k of them are in prison for violent crimes and 20k were serving life sentences. But apparently at a time when violent crime is increasing it’s a good idea to release thousands of violent criminals onto the streets. You couldn’t make it up.
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The idea of defunding the police in the US makes eminent sense. US police have confiscated $36billion worth in civil asset forfeiture in the last two decades because they’re allowed keep what they confiscate.
Why should that be allowed?
I mean if you can’t see the problem with a system where police keep what they confiscate, I can’t help you. There’s a reason why, say, security staff at airports can’t keep what they confiscate.
Why should US police continue to go down a road of further and further militarisation, instead of methods which would allow de-escalation?
Militarisation doesn’t work. It alienates communities and turns police into enemies, along with, you know, the problem US police have with shooting dead unarmed black people.