One of the enduring lessons people, at least in Westernish countries, will take from this administration is that you can say literally anything and the media will dutifully give it credence without second thought or any semblance of fact checking in their desperate, ravenous desire for clicks and engagement (and their general inability to even spell “truth”). And, further, that if you say and do enough things, you’ll already be ten lies past the one they’re trying to call you on, and the majority of people are too dumb to keep track or care.
It’s incredible how completely “journalists” have failed everyone.
If you are liberal or somewhat left, your comments will be dissected to infinity and called lies, because one special nuanced and unclear exception exists.
There's so much misinformation around this topic: "For example there has only ever been one incident of a boy being drowned in boiling water on a smallholding, but now people talk about it as if it's a common occurrence in farm attacks." - https://www.bustingthemyth.com/post/q-how-often-are-children...
Only one such incident!
And even the UK government has bought into this propaganda - South Africa is missing from their list of safe states [1]. In fact, even Turkey, with a homicide rate 14-times lower than South Africa [2], isn't on that list!
Trump spreads a conspiracy theory about white farmers in suuth africa (that is the lie on the front page). Then we get the real story that it is actually in the congo (that is like a page six retraction that no one will care about)
Must be the tremendous new leadership in the US Intelligence aparatus.
We're mere weeks away from "these poor moisture farmers living near the village of Mos Eisley, South Africa were brutally killed by the mayocide."
One of the enduring lessons people, at least in Westernish countries, will take from this administration is that you can say literally anything and the media will dutifully give it credence without second thought or any semblance of fact checking in their desperate, ravenous desire for clicks and engagement (and their general inability to even spell “truth”). And, further, that if you say and do enough things, you’ll already be ten lies past the one they’re trying to call you on, and the majority of people are too dumb to keep track or care.
It’s incredible how completely “journalists” have failed everyone.
I think you'll find that passes as soon as Republicans are not in power.
But only when you are conservative.
If you are liberal or somewhat left, your comments will be dissected to infinity and called lies, because one special nuanced and unclear exception exists.
There's so much misinformation around this topic: "For example there has only ever been one incident of a boy being drowned in boiling water on a smallholding, but now people talk about it as if it's a common occurrence in farm attacks." - https://www.bustingthemyth.com/post/q-how-often-are-children...
Only one such incident!
And even the UK government has bought into this propaganda - South Africa is missing from their list of safe states [1]. In fact, even Turkey, with a homicide rate 14-times lower than South Africa [2], isn't on that list!
[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/41/section/80AA
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
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Huh? Who printed a lie on their front page?
Trump spreads a conspiracy theory about white farmers in suuth africa (that is the lie on the front page). Then we get the real story that it is actually in the congo (that is like a page six retraction that no one will care about)
I see. It really sounded like you were saying Reuters was lying about something on its front page and issuing a quiet retraction.
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