• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 hours ago

    You live up to that 71% literacy rate america has as your reading comprehension is dogshit, I said literally nothing about grayzone, my comment was about Jacobin being dogshit.

    I do find it interesting just how much you’re trying to appeal-to-authority though. You don’t actually read things and make your own mind up based on critically reading and taking on board information, you defer your analysis to the amount of “reputability” that you give to whatever media institution. You base your entire belief system on prestige instead of educated analysis and the ability to critically think for yourself about information regardless of source. You simply dismiss information if it’s not from prestigious institutions and you accept information if it is, you’ve trained yourself not to think and it makes you extremely easy for these media institutions to manipulate you as a result. You are not immune to propaganda.

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        5 hours ago

        One of the key differences between us and liberals is that we don’t actually trust any source and critically analyse the contents for ourselves whereas the libs defer their own critical thinking to lib media because they’re lazy and having independent thoughts actually requires some degree of effort.

        The entirety of liberal media is a circlejerk of liberal institutions giving each other awards for being liberal enough and if you do this enough times for enough years you’re “prestigious” now and beyond reproach, everything you say is trustworthy and automatically better than anything those people outside the ideology say. Also there are no prestigious media outside the liberal media therefore there is nothing worth listening to or trusting outside it. Everything is thus easily dismissable.

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        7 hours ago

        Was it factual reporting when CNN, by all accounts a reputable American media outlet, lied to the entire world and claimed that their own employees had personally seen Venezuelan security forces burn an aid truck? An aid truck that was later proven to have been burned by an anti-government protester when cell phone video footage of the event was released to the public?

        You respect media outlets that the people who run our society want you to respect and you disregard the ones they don’t want you to trust. Your feelings about which ones are reliable have absolutely nothing to do with which ones tell the truth.