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Post by busy on Feb 26, 2019 16:58:09 GMT
Why is AOC too big for her britches when she was elected to Congress at 29, and yet Paul Ryan when he was elected at 28 was declared a 'wonder boy'? Why the double standards? She has some good ideas, that need to be fine tuned, but change isn't accomplished by silence. She will learn, and evolve, and hopefully we can all keep an open mind. She is addressing issues that concern her generation. Everyone in Congress has their own pet projects, but the ones she is espousing affect all Americans, and not just their personal pockets. She is the new kid and the novelty on the block and getting the media attention and the republican attention where all her actions are being scrutinized. S I believe that she is not just out for personal profit in her role in Congress. After all, maybe we should be examining how Paul Ryan went from being an Oscar Meyer salesman to Congressman and accruing 7 million in personal net worth in 20 years on his salary as a Congressman. Why single out Paul Ryan when everyone in congress has been profiting for years. It's amazing how someone gets elected with very little and leaves with a fortune. As for her not profiting off her role, you need to check again. Netflix is paying $10 million for her life story, a hell of a lot of money for someone that's only 29 and been in congress 2 months. Oh, come on. That's not an accurate description of the documentary at all. "Directed by Rachel Lears, “Knock Down the House” provides rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over Democratic powerhouse Joe Crowley. The film documents three other upstart candidates — West Virginia’s Paula Jean Swearengin, Nevada’s Amy Vilela, and Missouri’s Cori Bush — who try to take on the establishment."
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 26, 2019 17:00:14 GMT
Oh, come on. That's not an accurate description of the documentary at all. come, come now... you know those pesky *facts* only just get in the way of the [liberal-is-bad] message!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 26, 2019 17:03:38 GMT
Why is AOC too big for her britches when she was elected to Congress at 29, and yet Paul Ryan when he was elected at 28 was declared a 'wonder boy'? Why the double standards? She has some good ideas, that need to be fine tuned, but change isn't accomplished by silence. She will learn, and evolve, and hopefully we can all keep an open mind. She is addressing issues that concern her generation. Everyone in Congress has their own pet projects, but the ones she is espousing affect all Americans, and not just their personal pockets. She is the new kid and the novelty on the block and getting the media attention and the republican attention where all her actions are being scrutinized. S I believe that she is not just out for personal profit in her role in Congress. After all, maybe we should be examining how Paul Ryan went from being an Oscar Meyer salesman to Congressman and accruing 7 million in personal net worth in 20 years on his salary as a Congressman. Why single out Paul Ryan when everyone in congress has been profiting for years. It's amazing how someone gets elected with very little and leaves with a fortune. As for her not profiting off her role, you need to check again. Netflix is paying $10 million for her life story, a hell of a lot of money for someone that's only 29 and been in congress 2 months. Oh honey, you need to get off all that right winger news. www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/feb/15/facebook-posts/no-netflix-did-not-pay-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-10/
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 26, 2019 17:07:08 GMT
JUST to make it easier-- from the story: (WOW, that font is big!)
"She is getting zero dollars for the film," Ocasio-Cortez’ spokesperson Corbin Trent told us. "Not $10 million, not $100 million, not $2 million – zero."
The documentary, called "Knock Down The House," documents the campaigns of four progressive female candidates: Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, Paula Jean Swearengin and Ocasio-Cortez, who was the only winner among the group.
The film, directed and produced by Rachel Lears, won the Festival Favorite award at the Sundance Film Festival. Shortly after the win, Netflix acquired the distribution rights for a record $10 million, which was first reported by entertainment news website Deadline Hollywood.
The story quickly spread on the internet, and somewhere along the way turned into Ocasio-Cortez getting the full $10 million "payout" from Netflix.
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Post by lindas on Feb 26, 2019 17:12:08 GMT
Why single out Paul Ryan when everyone in congress has been profiting for years. It's amazing how someone gets elected with very little and leaves with a fortune. As for her not profiting off her role, you need to check again. Netflix is paying $10 million for her life story, a hell of a lot of money for someone that's only 29 and been in congress 2 months. Oh, come on. That's not an accurate description of the documentary at all. "Directed by Rachel Lears, “Knock Down the House” provides rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over Democratic powerhouse Joe Crowley. The film documents three other upstart candidates — West Virginia’s Paula Jean Swearengin, Nevada’s Amy Vilela, and Missouri’s Cori Bush — who try to take on the establishment." I apologize, I misspoke regarding AOC but I stand by my comment about everyone profiting off there political gig.
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Post by busy on Feb 26, 2019 17:14:16 GMT
Oh, come on. That's not an accurate description of the documentary at all. "Directed by Rachel Lears, “Knock Down the House” provides rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over Democratic powerhouse Joe Crowley. The film documents three other upstart candidates — West Virginia’s Paula Jean Swearengin, Nevada’s Amy Vilela, and Missouri’s Cori Bush — who try to take on the establishment." I apologize, I misspoke regarding AOC but I stand by my comment about everyone profiting off there political gig. You "misspoke" by saying that she's getting $10 million for a documentary that she's a subject of but has no stake in and thus is getting $0 from? No. You shared "fake news." You uncritically believed something that furthered your narrative about her and passed it along as truth.
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Post by hop2 on Feb 26, 2019 17:22:05 GMT
Honestly, I read her tweet as, come up with some ideas or get out of the way. We can no longer kick the environmental can down the road. While that sentiment is true, and I understand it, she has a 2year term and the Republican Senate won’t pass that. Sure, write it pass it thru congress and let the Senate kill it, BUT in the mean time, find smaller steps forward that they might pass. Sen Feinstein could have worded it better, but she’s right. Right now they are going to have to take smaller steps forward if they can even get THAT thru. The GOP appears to be pro pollution at the moment. IDK why. But to tell colleagues I won’t vote for your steps forward because it’s not enough it’s too little, is asking to remain where we are. There is no way to get her #newgreendeal thru THIS Senate. And THIS Senate is what she has to work with. So do you want to take one step in the righ direction or stand where you are and complain because it’s not 10 steps? Meanwhile the Executive branch is ramming thing backwards as far and as fast as they can because the legislative branch can’t do a single thing while they bicker.
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Post by Just T on Feb 26, 2019 17:23:21 GMT
Why is AOC too big for her britches when she was elected to Congress at 29, and yet Paul Ryan when he was elected at 28 was declared a 'wonder boy'? Why the double standards? She has some good ideas, that need to be fine tuned, but change isn't accomplished by silence. She will learn, and evolve, and hopefully we can all keep an open mind. She is addressing issues that concern her generation. Everyone in Congress has their own pet projects, but the ones she is espousing affect all Americans, and not just their personal pockets. She is the new kid and the novelty on the block and getting the media attention and the republican attention where all her actions are being scrutinized. S I believe that she is not just out for personal profit in her role in Congress. After all, maybe we should be examining how Paul Ryan went from being an Oscar Meyer salesman to Congressman and accruing 7 million in personal net worth in 20 years on his salary as a Congressman. Why single out Paul Ryan when everyone in congress has been profiting for years. It's amazing how someone gets elected with very little and leaves with a fortune. As for her not profiting off her role, you need to check again. Netflix is paying $10 million for her life story, a hell of a lot of money for someone that's only 29 and been in congress 2 months. I'm not the person who posted what you are quoting, but I am assuming she singled out Paul Ryan as a comparison between 2 young, up and coming senators. One a Republican, white male, one a Democratic Hispanic female, to point out the difference in the way women and men are talked about and portrayed. Wonder Boy. Too big for her britches. See the difference?
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Post by sassyangel on Feb 26, 2019 17:27:57 GMT
I wonder if the same would be said about her britches if she was a man. Probably not. I never seem to hear about Trump being too big for his, no matter what he says or does. When he tweets ridiculous shit about how whatever he's doing is the best, the biggest, the most, he's called "confident". I absolutely would use that term for a man if he was saying the same stupid crap. And you have got to be kidding me that you don’t hear people say Trump he overshoots his power - I’m on the same forum you are and I see plenty of that just here. Okay then, why aren’t you saying it? He’s a far bigger danger to the country, than AOC is.
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Post by naby64 on Feb 26, 2019 17:47:11 GMT
Sooooo, I am one of those tired Americans of each side calling names. I don't really have feelings one way or the other on AOC. But the tweet was tame. I saw the video where she proclaims herself boss. Hoping I link it correctly. I am just tired of all the haughtiness from both sides. Please can we just try to work together. AOC being the boss
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Post by jeremysgirl on Feb 26, 2019 18:23:30 GMT
Men who act like AOC: "He's just going after what he wants. He is passionate about his cause. He is a real go-getter. He's a self-starter. He knows what needs to be done and goes after it. He gets things done. He tells it like it is." Women who act like AOC: "She's full of herself. She's too big for her britches. She better watch out or she'll get what's coming to her. Who does she think she is? She just got her job because she knows someone - if you know what I'm saying. She's shrill. She's a harpy. She should try being nicer. She's a bitch." Black people who act like AOC: "He/She is uppity." I may not agree with everything AOC says or does, but I'd rather have her "telling it like it is" than what the current crop of old dudes is doing. She hasn't paid off any porn stars. She hasn't taken kickbacks or bribes. She hasn't pushed legislation because her corporate donors have asked her to. There isn't a question of whether or not she just might have worked with a foreign government to get elected. She hasn't been accused of looking the other way when molestation was happening under her watch. She isn't suspected of having sex with people under the age of consent. She's not involved in any sort of election fraud where she pays someone to pick up absentee ballots and fill them out with votes. She hasn't been charged with lying to congress, or the FBI, or for not registering as a foreign agent. She doesn't have questionable loans. She hasn't had any money laundering scandals come to light. She hasn't praised dictators of other regimes. She hasn't hired any illegal immigrants while telling everyone else how bad and scary illegal immigrants are. She hasn't installed a soundproof booth or cost the taxpayers $900K in unnecessary security costs. She hasn't made 159 golfing trips at a cost of approximately $89 million to taxpayers (so far). She hasn't flown all the way across the world only to walk out on the meetings and events. She hasn't tweeted attacks on people dying of cancer. She hasn't tweeted attacks on private citizens. She hasn't called for her political opponents to be locked up for no real reason. I could keep listing things that she hasn't done that would be much worse than the things you find so offensive about her, but I fear that it might run up the bandwidth too much and there simply aren't enough hours in the day. I would like permission to use your very well thought out list the next time I see someone post crap on Facebook. Please let me know if this is alright. It was very well said.
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Post by TheOtherMeg on Feb 26, 2019 18:32:31 GMT
It’s actually pretty smart to look for what’s reasonable in both sides of an argument. Except that's not what you did here. You intentionally misrepresented AOC's tweet, giving it an entirely different meaning than it actually conveyed when read in her own words. She neither told anyone to shut up nor that she was the boss. So many people have (intentionally, IMO) misrepresented all or part of the GND (and AOC, for that matter!). The GND is not a set of laws with rules that must be followed. It's a set of IDEALS, of GOALS. (Not one of which is eliminating cows, airplanes, or the military, BTW, regardless of Trump's tweeting. lol) Of course it's short on facts right now, because it's not, and was never meant to be *at this point*, a fact-based document. It's a mission statement. It cannot be fact-based at this point because, frankly, many of the facts required to fulfill the mission statement require science that isn't ready or isn't readily available on a mass scale (meaning affordable) yet. But does that mean we should sit back and DO nothing, PLAN nothing, until science catches up with our desires and needs? "Hell no!" say AOC and those who don't want to be caught flat-footed when the last huge chunk breaks off one of the polar caps and we're rationing energy/fuel/drinkable water all over the country on a regular basis. (Instead of just during natural disasters and shortages [hello, 1970s gas lines and near-constant water shortages in SoCal], like I've personally experienced.)
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Post by Just T on Feb 26, 2019 18:37:11 GMT
Men who act like AOC: "He's just going after what he wants. He is passionate about his cause. He is a real go-getter. He's a self-starter. He knows what needs to be done and goes after it. He gets things done. He tells it like it is." Women who act like AOC: "She's full of herself. She's too big for her britches. She better watch out or she'll get what's coming to her. Who does she think she is? She just got her job because she knows someone - if you know what I'm saying. She's shrill. She's a harpy. She should try being nicer. She's a bitch." Black people who act like AOC: "He/She is uppity." I may not agree with everything AOC says or does, but I'd rather have her "telling it like it is" than what the current crop of old dudes is doing. She hasn't paid off any porn stars. She hasn't taken kickbacks or bribes. She hasn't pushed legislation because her corporate donors have asked her to. There isn't a question of whether or not she just might have worked with a foreign government to get elected. She hasn't been accused of looking the other way when molestation was happening under her watch. She isn't suspected of having sex with people under the age of consent. She's not involved in any sort of election fraud where she pays someone to pick up absentee ballots and fill them out with votes. She hasn't been charged with lying to congress, or the FBI, or for not registering as a foreign agent. She doesn't have questionable loans. She hasn't had any money laundering scandals come to light. She hasn't praised dictators of other regimes. She hasn't hired any illegal immigrants while telling everyone else how bad and scary illegal immigrants are. She hasn't installed a soundproof booth or cost the taxpayers $900K in unnecessary security costs. She hasn't made 159 golfing trips at a cost of approximately $89 million to taxpayers (so far). She hasn't flown all the way across the world only to walk out on the meetings and events. She hasn't tweeted attacks on people dying of cancer. She hasn't tweeted attacks on private citizens. She hasn't called for her political opponents to be locked up for no real reason. I could keep listing things that she hasn't done that would be much worse than the things you find so offensive about her, but I fear that it might run up the bandwidth too much and there simply aren't enough hours in the day. pyccku, in case I haven't told you this before, I love when you post on political threads. I love your perspective, and I love how you post without belittling anyone or making anyone feel stupid. I truly learn so much from you.
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Post by busy on Feb 26, 2019 18:40:12 GMT
It’s actually pretty smart to look for what’s reasonable in both sides of an argument. Except that's not what you did here. You intentionally misrepresented AOC's tweet, giving it an entirely different meaning than it actually conveyed when read in her own words. She neither told anyone to shut up nor that she was the boss. So many people have (intentionally, IMO) misrepresented all or part of the GND (and AOC, for that matter!). The GND is not a set of laws with rules that must be followed. It's a set of IDEALS, of GOALS. (Not one of which is eliminating cows, airplanes, or the military, BTW, regardless of Trump's tweeting. lol) Of course it's short on facts right now, because it's not, and was never meant to be *at this point*, a fact-based document. It's a mission statement. It cannot be fact-based at this point because, frankly, many of the facts required to fulfill the mission statement require science that isn't ready or isn't readily available on a mass scale (meaning affordable) yet. But does that mean we should sit back and DO nothing, PLAN nothing, until science catches up with our desires and needs? "Hell no!" says AOC and those who don't want to be caught flat-footed when the last huge chunk breaks off one of the polar caps and we're rationing energy/fuel/drinkable water all over the country on a regular basis (instead of just during natural disasters and shortages [hello, 1970s gas lines and near-constant water shortages in SoCal], like I've personally experienced). EXACTLY and so many people seem to be missing this. It is not proposed legislation at this point. It's a framework of goals that will require a lot more details and actual policy before it would ever go up for a vote. Rallying people around a shared vision isn't a bad thing but it shouldn't be discussed as though she's got a bill to present.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 26, 2019 19:06:35 GMT
Just stepping in to say that Paul Ryan was lucky enough to marry a tax attorney who inherited an estimated $5 million when her mother passed away - you can see the big jump in their net worth in their annual filings after she died. Funny how we never consider that a couples' wealth might be due to the wife instead of the husband.
I find too often the criticism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more than a tinge of misogynist language - even when the criticism is deserved.
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Post by rodeomom on Feb 26, 2019 19:33:20 GMT
Just stepping in to say that Paul Ryan was lucky enough to marry a tax attorney who inherited an estimated $5 million when her mother passed away - you can see the big jump in their net worth in their annual filings after she died. Funny how we never consider that a couples' wealth might be due to the wife instead of the husband. I find too often the criticism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more than a tinge of misogynist language - even when the criticism is deserved. His wife is from our very small town and her family are very wealthy. Both of her parents were attorneys, as was her Grandfather who started the Little law firm here. My niece worked there and is now going to law school. As a side note her father just made the guinness book of world records for being the oldest (76) person to completed seven marathons in seven days.
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Post by pyccku on Feb 26, 2019 20:21:59 GMT
I would like permission to use your very well thought out list the next time I see someone post crap on Facebook. Please let me know if this is alright. It was very well said. Go right ahead!
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Post by mimima on Feb 26, 2019 20:37:59 GMT
I'm not a fan of whataboutism on any side, but I am appreciative that AOC is doing her job - networking and crafting legislation.
I am, however, a fan of @русски
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Post by artgirl1 on Feb 26, 2019 20:45:11 GMT
I'm not the person who posted what you are quoting, but I am assuming she singled out Paul Ryan as a comparison between 2 young, up and coming senators. One a Republican, white male, one a Democratic Hispanic female, to point out the difference in the way women and men are talked about and portrayed. Wonder Boy. Too big for her britches. See the difference? ![](http://i1168.photobucket.com/albums/r481/2peasrefugees/Smilies/yeahthat.jpg.gif)
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Post by Anita on Feb 26, 2019 20:49:58 GMT
Applying the phrase "too big for her britches" to any female over the age of about seven really pisses me off. Unless of course she is literally busting out of her pants. It's demeaning.
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Post by J u l e e on Feb 26, 2019 20:53:14 GMT
Oh, come on. That's not an accurate description of the documentary at all. "Directed by Rachel Lears, “Knock Down the House” provides rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over Democratic powerhouse Joe Crowley. The film documents three other upstart candidates — West Virginia’s Paula Jean Swearengin, Nevada’s Amy Vilela, and Missouri’s Cori Bush — who try to take on the establishment." I apologize, I misspoke regarding AOC but I stand by my comment about everyone profiting off there political gig. Honestly. How are you not more embarrassed by this? You fell for the lie being fed to fools. I probably cringed more for you while reading through this than you did for yourself being called out for spreading fake news.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 26, 2019 21:07:03 GMT
Oh, come on. That's not an accurate description of the documentary at all. "Directed by Rachel Lears, “Knock Down the House” provides rare, behind-the-scenes footage of Ocasio-Cortez’s upset primary win over Democratic powerhouse Joe Crowley. The film documents three other upstart candidates — West Virginia’s Paula Jean Swearengin, Nevada’s Amy Vilela, and Missouri’s Cori Bush — who try to take on the establishment." I apologize, I misspoke regarding AOC but I stand by my comment about everyone profiting off there political gig. So far, that’s still not true. How has AOC, or any of the new freshmen profited?
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Post by lindas on Feb 26, 2019 21:16:59 GMT
I apologize, I misspoke regarding AOC but I stand by my comment about everyone profiting off there political gig. Honestly. How are you not more embarrassed by this? You fell for the lie being fed to fools. I probably cringed more for you while reading through this than you did for yourself being called out for spreading fake news. Do you feel better now that you called me out. I'm not embarrassed nor did I cringe, I made an error, I owned it and apologized for it which is a hell of a lot more than ours that post incorrect info as fact on here do.
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Post by J u l e e on Feb 26, 2019 21:52:05 GMT
Honestly. How are you not more embarrassed by this? You fell for the lie being fed to fools. I probably cringed more for you while reading through this than you did for yourself being called out for spreading fake news. Do you feel better now that you called me out. I'm not embarrassed nor did I cringe, I made an error, I owned it and apologized for it which is a hell of a lot more than ours that post incorrect info as fact on here do. No, I don't actually feel better. It was cringy to witness and your reply was odd. You told people they should probably check out a story as a way to make a point. The story was a lie. You apologized for "misspeaking". You were played and you bought it and you shared it with others. That you did not cringe or were not embarrassed by that is unfathomable to me. I am so damn sick of the culture of outright lies being spread as truth. And where it's easier to just share a lie than to research it. And I'm sick of the people who blindly lap it up. It's destroying us and that's infuriating to me. I rarely get worked up over things here. But fake news being perpetuated, absolute lies being tweeted and believed, and the rate at which it's happening and actually NORMAL makes me crazy! Your post (and moreso your response) just happened to be the straw to my camel today.
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Post by gar on Feb 26, 2019 22:02:54 GMT
I am so damn sick of the culture of outright lies being spread as truth. And where it's easier to just share a lie than to research it. And I'm sick of the people who blindly lap it up. It's destroying us and that's infuriating to me. I can't imagine how infuriating this is and the apparent lack of recognition as to it's significance and importance is almost worse. Imagine how many thousands of times this is done per day across your country without much importance attached to it. It is a huge issue for you. And the OP is very patronising.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Feb 26, 2019 22:12:46 GMT
Do you feel better now that you called me out. I'm not embarrassed nor did I cringe, I made an error, I owned it and apologized for it which is a hell of a lot more than ours that post incorrect info as fact on here do. No, I don't actually feel better. It was cringy to witness and your reply was odd. You told people they should probably check out a story as a way to make a point. The story was a lie. You apologized for "misspeaking". You were played and you bought it and you shared it with others. That you did not cringe or were not embarrassed by that is unfathomable to me. I am so damn sick of the culture of outright lies being spread as truth. And where it's easier to just share a lie than to research it. And I'm sick of the people who blindly lap it up. It's destroying us and that's infuriating to me. I rarely get worked up over things here. But fake news being perpetuated, absolute lies being tweeted and believed, and the rate at which it's happening and actually NORMAL makes me crazy! Your post (and moreso your response) just happened to be the straw to my camel today. I agree with this. I see it all.the.time in Facebook and it is driving me crazy. Last week my mom said that my aunt told her she was losing sleep because of the abortion bill in New York and how they are killing babies that could just be born instead. She is one who shares fake news constantly and won’t acknowledge it. I told my mom that at least we have something in common (myself and my aunt)—we are both losing sleep over fake news. She is losing sleep because she believes that the things she posts about are truly happening. I lose sleep because she and others have fallen for the fake news and keep spreading it and creating a bigger divide. That being said...I do appreciate that lindas didn’t double down and argue that it was true. What I usually see from family members is this: they share fake news. Someone calls them out on it. They call names, say that any other news source that is given to them is what is actually fake, or say “we will just have to agree to disagree.” It is refreshing to see someone not do that.
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Post by sassyangel on Feb 26, 2019 22:27:31 GMT
Honestly. How are you not more embarrassed by this? You fell for the lie being fed to fools. I probably cringed more for you while reading through this than you did for yourself being called out for spreading fake news. Do you feel better now that you called me out. I'm not embarrassed nor did I cringe, I made an error, I owned it and apologized for it which is a hell of a lot more than ours that post incorrect info as fact on here do. You didn’t really own it for what it was though, sharing false news *because* it suited your opinion of someone. 🤷🏻♀️ Granted you’re not the only person to do that, though.
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Post by J u l e e on Feb 26, 2019 22:31:09 GMT
I am so damn sick of the culture of outright lies being spread as truth. And where it's easier to just share a lie than to research it. And I'm sick of the people who blindly lap it up. It's destroying us and that's infuriating to me. I can't imagine how infuriating this is and the apparent lack of recognition as to it's significance and importance is almost worse. Imagine how many thousands of times this is done per day across your country without much importance attached to it. It is a huge issue for you. And the OP is very patronising. Yes! The significance is overwhelming. Saying, "sorry I made an error" seems lovely but the damage is done. Someone reads what was written, believes it, checks out of the thread, shares the story, and there will always be a willing audience and willing participants just ready to take the bait. We're witnessing just how much of a nation can be swayed in this exact way and another nation plays us for fools and it's frightening.
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Post by sassyangel on Feb 26, 2019 22:35:26 GMT
Do you feel better now that you called me out. I'm not embarrassed nor did I cringe, I made an error, I owned it and apologized for it which is a hell of a lot more than ours that post incorrect info as fact on here do. I am so damn sick of the culture of outright lies being spread as truth. And where it's easier to just share a lie than to research it. And I'm sick of the people who blindly lap it up. It's destroying us and that's infuriating to me. This.
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