Trump played the game better, and that's definitely why he won. But are we really happy with a political system that rewards spreading propaganda?
John Oliver showed a graph that basically said that 60% (40% conservative and 20% liberal) of the "news" that was shared on Facebook was bullshit. And that a surprising number of Americans now get their news exclusively through social media.
Regardless of the outcome, we should all we wary of this wave of anti-intellectualism (both sides are guilty) that has only made us dumber and more divided as a country.
I know we all like to joke about "x is your source???" but we should start taking that question more seriously.
The scary part is that people believe some of the shit that gets posted. Common sense is now a superpower.
I agree that's scary that people believe non-factual shit and it mostly falls on the uneducated or people that lack critical thinking ability. Numerous times during the election, Republican talking heads would flat out deny facts because they didn't believe them. I'm not saying that Newt Gringrichdawg is uneducated or can't think critically though. I'm saying that the facts didn't fit his narrative so he would ignore them and then the Trumpers would lap it up.
To say that common sense is a superpower only illustrates what most of us have been saying about you.
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DemocraticNarcissisticCunt and PitchorCatch are pissy it means I've met my goal.
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