Awww…this thread isn’t going the way you thought it would, huh aldiboronti?
Fake news: When “news” is released by supposedly reputable persons or organizations that the person or organization releasing it has no reason to believe is true(or is itself s making up this “news”), but releases it as factual anyway.
But you know this already since this isn’t the first time this topic has been discussed, so what the flying fuck is your problem, jackass?
I was struck with the hilarity of two front page photoshopped photos of Hillary Clinton in the National Enquirer. In a September issue they claimed Hillary had ballooned to 289 pounds (she was actually around 135) and a couple of weeks later had her on death’s door looking like a zombie.
This photo of Bannon is not photoshopped. It was taken by Jeremy Liebman, and accompanied a Bloomberg article. Story
Bannon is a schlub. He is also, effectively, the president.
Actually the fake was referring to the altered face only picture of Bannon early in the article. Still, the whole article looks more like pointing at a “Streisand effect” it makes everyone notice the real picture that is not flattering at all. He does look like an axe murderer.
At least he shaved. He no longer looks like a homeless axe murderer.
“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
Acts 17:11, KJV
Other translations refer to them as the Bereans. I’ve been quoting this to people on the right who call themselves “Christians” for more than a year now, asking them to verify if things are true before posting them on Facebook, message boards or emails.
Sadly, the only response I’ve ever gotten is profanity and anger. They’ve lost sight of the truth and are no longer interested in it, because they are no longer Christians in belief, but only in name.
And here I thought we’d be talking about AddictingInfo or some shit like that. You do realize, that there is such a thing as actual left-wing fake news, right aldi? You don’t have to reach to chain emails or facebook memes to find it! It’s quite prevalent! Not nearly as prevalent or influential as right-wing fake news, but it’s not hard to find a handful of sites on the left that have little to no interest in the truth.
This is just pathetic. What the fuck were you thinking?
Not coming back to defend your thread, aldiboronti? No?
Have you always been a gutless pussy coward?
That’s okay, though…all of the other Trumplings are gutless pussy cowards, too.
After eight years of birth certificates, and “you didn’t build that”, and death panels, and stand-down orders, and “what difference does it make”, and child sex trafficking from the basement of a pizza place, now the OP thinks we need to put an end to fake news?
Special snowflake needs a trigger warning before Internetting.
Hey, a random facebook user posting a distorted picture of a hateful asshole is exactly the same as Fox News, a supposedly legitimate news source, posting distorted pictures of journalists. Exactly the same!
Are you sure? Not that fake-lefts exist but that it wouldn’t be hard for aldi to find them? He probably has his Google trained to avoid left-wing sites; what he knows about the Left is what FoxNews tells him. And Fox propagandists have a similar problem — they don’t want to risk polluting their own ideological purity by reading HuffingtonPost, let alone AddictingInfo, they “learn” a little about the Left from Samantha Bee and SNL, but mostly rely on Twitter. Did aldi even tell us where he saw the photo? Probably from his AltRight cousin on Facebook who was complaining about it.
Everyone’s in their own Alternate Reality now.
See? All aldi knows about these matters is that those quotes are word-for-word correct, Trump did triumphantly force the imposter to produce a birth certificate, and the death panels are real — Bill Akins says so.
I’m not sure what the status of the child sex slaves in the pizza parlor basement is — I’ve heard that Donald J. Trump personally freed the slaves but was too modest to publicize it!
Shorter aldi: “See, we right-wing nutjobs are victims too!”
So, aldiboronti, any response? I guess you have better self control than I do, because I don’t think I’ve ever let my own thread sit this long without checking in.
Maybe someone with better SDMB skills can tell us in the peanut gallery whether our esteemed OP has been back on the board since he posted this.
Well, everyone has said pretty much everything on the topic, so I’ll just repeat, a meme is not news, and how could this be news anyway outside your mind, aldi, as I am an official news maniac, and I had never seen it until I saw this thread.
Was it a joke? If so, you might add those little smileys to make sure we get it.
Most recent activity: 3:12 pm(Pacific) today.
Which is now yesterday. Maybe he’s busy breeding crickets.
Snowflake is one of my trigger words. Please respect my personhood. Thank you.
No problem – trigger warning: you may get called a snowflake.
You’re welcome!
We wouldn’t want to inadvertently stimulate your manhood.