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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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We were having a conversation about the media. There is no left-wing counterpart to Fox News. Nor is there a left-wing counterpart to Breitbart, for that matter. Everyone shares the internet, and everyone can find crazy stuff on Facebook, but conservative media spreads misinformation in a way that has no left-wing parallel. Indeed, there is no left-wing counterpart to most conservative media, which is a key part of the story. (Not all right-wing media is like this. The FT and the Economist are both right of center and very solid.) When you change the subject to tell me that there are deluded idiots on both the right and the left, you are no longer talking about what is wrong with the media.
