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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (306080)	10/11/2024 5:33:12 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longz Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354758

That article was not about climate change but about what has happened to people who have lost their natural, common-sense instinct to recognize things that are risible on their face, who have so bought into the ridiculous that their judgment is topsy turvy, lost the ability to differentiate satire because obvious nonsense and likely reality have merged. I guess you missed tha pointt. Or are past caring. I understood the point of the article, but was simply pointing out in reply that the beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or, in this case, the nonsense is. That Dem partisans attach negativity to everything they don't like is nothing new. That, in and of itself, doesn't make those things good or evil based on party preference. And news flash, but Republicans do that, as well. The science of climate change is still working its way through the system and no amount of deeming it to be any immediate threat to the world is going to make that factual. That Musk has proposed a viable solution to carbon emissions and Democrats are shunning it because he also understands we cannot do another four years of extreme leftism in our leadership, that prospective cure is now back-burnered.

To: Lane3 who wrote (306080)	10/12/2024 10:19:43 AM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 354758

For decades now, I have seen Noodles as a bellwether of sorts.

To: Lane3 who wrote (306080)	10/12/2024 2:03:29 PM
From: i-node	4 Recommendations Recommended By ig longz pocotrader Thomas M. Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354758

When I see the word "misinformation" my eyes glaze over. There is, literally, nothing that can be done about it. And I'm not sure we'd want to. We have so called "peer review", for example, and in the scientific literature it is a total joke. In politics, it is even worse: Because the news media is protected, anything goes (unless you're Fox News, of course). But you can lie about Donald Trump all you want. In one case CNN claimed to have "22 off the record sources" reporting some bit of "truth" from the Mueller investigation which somehow (hehe) turned out to be wrong. 51 "former intelligence agents" were critical in corrupting the 2020 election (we're apt to see something along those lines shortly) outcome, total misinformation (lies), yet Democrats everywhere and some Republicans (the targets) bought it. It chocked full of obvious lies, but that didn't matter. So when you talk about "doing something" about misinformation, the unanswerable question is "Who knows what the truth is?" You? Me? Bentway? CJ? It is a topic without a logical end point. And information is in all most all cases, time-sensitive. Talk of anyone doing anything about lies is a total joke.