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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Perhaps you didn't notice that my post was a response to Slave mentioning a "fake dossier"?
I agree with you that the media is lazy. But that has always been true. But it seems like a bigger problem that conservatives have constructed an alternate reality which is impervious to facts that the rest of us get. You engage in a little both-sideism here, as you are wired to do, but I don't know of a single person who thinks that everything in the Steele dossier is right, but there are plenty of people like Slave who reject it as fake.
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Slave never posts entirely earnestly. If he used “fake,” he was writing quickly and part ironically. He knows damn well the whole thing isn’t fiction. You’re pretending you don’t understand that so you can offer this silly argument.
But now we get to the serious stupidity of what you actually believe: That it’s only conservatives who have magical realities. Many progressives still believe Trumpkins are all bigots. They believe in this crazy world where the only people who disagree with them are hopelessly backward and full of hate. They’re deluded in exactly the same way their conservative counterparts are. The only difference is they aren’t as cynical as the right. A lot of the right views disinformation as a form of political strategy. Most progressives actually believe - ludicrously - that they know the truth.
It’s the credulous and the cynical on the right vs. the merely credulous on the left. And their respective media sources feed their delusions.
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