Its really easy to find articles to support our own bias, and that is a concerning thing. How does anyone actually sift through all the lies and get to the actual facts? Its practically impossible to do that, because people can and will lie in order to ensure their agendas stay in motion.
Control is the only thing that consolidated power is concerned about. All political parties are oblivious to what the people actually want.
Nah the 'both sides' stuff stopped when the Republicans started blocking our response to the foreign nations' attacking our citizens online over and over again because they need it to keep getting elected.
The best way I found to keep sifting through all the lies is to make sure to check it on the AP news.
Also, creating more conflict and division among the people is one of the oldest tricks in the books. History is full of examples. Same tactics different tools.
True, which is why social media provided such a beautiful tool for the propagandists to analyze and use to do just that.
My general opinion is that its better to ask questions and remain a free thinker. Choosing a side/team almost guarantees a dogmatic irrational approach to questions that require a bigger scope of thinking. Tribalism is very unproductive, in my opinion.
When one 'team' is selling you out to foreign dictators to maintain power by causing recessions and then sitting back and trolling the other 'team' that time after time does the work to fix the mess left behind it gets a lot easier to make a decision.
It is not 'dogmatic irrational'ism to see who is punching you in the face while picking your pocket so they can give tax breaks to the richest in our nation. I would like to vote for a Republican, but during my lifetime their economic, social, rolling over to religious zealots, and active measures to suppress voting has proven to have shit results for us.
Obviously voting matters... I think. If there was a way to actually prove that elections are not rigged, most Americans would be more trusting and involved. Common sense suggests that if a person(s) within an organization can manipulate or alter data without getting caught, they will. Its just basic human behavior.
The inability for people to understand how the word 'if' is used is another problem with the way peoples' 'feels' are being manipulated. Anytime I use the word 'feel' I try to put a lot of thought into why I am feeling strongly about something I don't know much about one way or the other, and then go back to the AP news and relook at everything.
More common sense IMO would be to understand that with so many people involved and how easy it is to burn people that secrets now come out left and right, and if in what at least the last 4 years, but really the last 11+ Trump and his troll army have been pushing the election lies they would have more than just the my pillow guy and a bunch of people relying on the lies to spread to get re-elected trying to fear monger us into believing some dead dictator is manipulating our machines from beyond the grave.
Mind you I dont lean left or right. I ask questions, keep an open mind, and pursue Truth. Here is a simple way to really get my point across, regarding bias. What is the truth? And why is everyone shouting that they are fact checking the opposing "team"?
To a free thinker like myself, its all very entertaining.
If this video was misinformation, it would be taken down. That is YouTube policy, correct?
Again I ask... WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Youtube keeps math videos up with obvious lies in them to trick people into believing stupid shit like 1+1=3 lol.
And yeah I actually watched one of that lady's videos. She is a great speaker, and the one I saw was really good for about the middle 5 minutes or so, then turned hard into right wing political programming. At 6 minutes she is for example taking something that was said about a baby dying after birth because it was not born healthy and then doing the right wing propaganda talking point of making that somehow Democratic policy to kill babies after they are born which is not happening.
She is just trying to sell the lies Trump is hoping to use to keep his cult scared and in panic of what 'they' are going to do to them if they don't vote for the orange dictator.
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