Unfortunately this general line of thinking has been co-opted by right wingers (Trump types, to be super clear) and thus liberals, as always, have cornered themselves harder into NEVER DOUBT THE MEDIA NEVER DOUBT THE STATE DEPT STOP DEFENDING TRUMP type no-thinking logical black pits.
And just to explain further if it isn’t clear, I’m referring to how Trump, et al. basically say the media will state something “Trump did X!” then they retract the story or edit it with a small disclaimer noting the original but the retraction is rarely (never) read. It’s a way of basically defaming without having real legal liability since, technically, you can say you made a mistake and you did your due diligence by retracting later with a correction. This shit absolutely happens, it’s one of those things Trump was really good at needling in on because it harms (“harms”) people like himself but normal people, who won’t experience personal effects of this usually, can still see it happening and they know it happens but if you question it a little liberals get flustered and if you say it’s fucked up that the media clearly does this then the liberals denounce you very quickly as anti rainbows and pro hellfire or whatever. And clearly, if it isn’t somehow clear, Trump is a demon. But it doesn’t mean all of his criticisms of liberals are wrong. Many are objectively true and that’s very much so a reason why people love him and say he “tells it like it is” because on a select few issues, he does.
Once again I find myself infinitely frustrated at how much liberals will cling to the institutions which betray them. The selfish fuckers.
Indeed.
Unfortunately this general line of thinking has been co-opted by right wingers (Trump types, to be super clear) and thus liberals, as always, have cornered themselves harder into NEVER DOUBT THE MEDIA NEVER DOUBT THE STATE DEPT STOP DEFENDING TRUMP type no-thinking logical black pits.
And just to explain further if it isn’t clear, I’m referring to how Trump, et al. basically say the media will state something “Trump did X!” then they retract the story or edit it with a small disclaimer noting the original but the retraction is rarely (never) read. It’s a way of basically defaming without having real legal liability since, technically, you can say you made a mistake and you did your due diligence by retracting later with a correction. This shit absolutely happens, it’s one of those things Trump was really good at needling in on because it harms (“harms”) people like himself but normal people, who won’t experience personal effects of this usually, can still see it happening and they know it happens but if you question it a little liberals get flustered and if you say it’s fucked up that the media clearly does this then the liberals denounce you very quickly as anti rainbows and pro hellfire or whatever. And clearly, if it isn’t somehow clear, Trump is a demon. But it doesn’t mean all of his criticisms of liberals are wrong. Many are objectively true and that’s very much so a reason why people love him and say he “tells it like it is” because on a select few issues, he does.
Once again I find myself infinitely frustrated at how much liberals will cling to the institutions which betray them. The selfish fuckers.