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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I said that conservatives have constructed their own factual reality, something the left does not do. There is nothing comparable on the left. When someone like TM says something like, all Trump voters are bigoted, they are not living in a different factual reality. They are interpreting the same facts available to you and drawing a different conclusion than you do about something unknowable, the state of mind of other humans. There is nothing on the left comparable to the conservative media that have conservatives believing that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election, or that Adam Schiff helped frame the whistleblower's complaint.
Who are these unnamed "progressives" who you think are similarly deluded? You can't name one. Neither does Kurt Andersen, at least insofar as that review of his book says. What is the left's equivalent of FOX News? There is none, and that's really the point. You said the problem with the media is that it's lazy. I said no, the bigger problem is that there's a conservative media that is devoted to propaganda, such that many conservatives believe "facts" that aren't true. Do you think the media today is any lazier than it was in days gone by?
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This is the biggest barrel of horseshit you've offered lately. If I understand this slop, the argument is, Conservatives have not only bullshit narratives, but bullshit "facts" on which they base such narratives, while Progressives only have bullshit narratives.
Brilliant.
What's the left's equivalent of Fox News? Hmmm... Well, there's this thing called the Internet, and there are these things called websites, and... Then there are these news aggregators, and there are about 1,000,000 Facebook groups filled with Progressives who are Totally Fucking Clueless. I mean, batshit crazy. Want to see some cuckoo pants progressives? Take a spin through Democratic Underground. Remember DailyKos? That was a moron convention from start to finish. Let's not forget HuffPo. You can actually feel IQ points dropping as you consume their stuff.
The goofy left gets its crackpot shit online. The lunatic right still gets it from Sean Hannity. But the amount of unvarnished horseshit they consume and spout is easily equivalent. If anything, the moronic left is bigger.
I don't do Facebook, but holy fuck -- some of the crazy, stupid shit you can see in political discussions there is scary. I've read my spouse's feed and any time a political issue comes up, you get a group on the right and a group on the left, and they argue, and neither has a fucking clue what the fuck they're talking about. These are educated professionals largely, and they are fucking deluded. It's embarrassing.
