The Politics/Religion/Conspiracies Deathmatch Thread

[The Dunster]

It only represents what circles you roll in, this was a ripper take I read the other day and I'm inclined to agree with it

"Blame Facebook for creating a massive reality-distortion field; for allowing its more than 200 million active North American users to dwell in a fever swamp of misinformation and ridiculous falsehood."

Although not broadcasting it from the rooftops like the vocal minority on either side, the amount of absolute nonsense and outright lies on Facebook that is swallowed up by the silent mass in the middle definitely has an effect.

Fair-dos to the Reps and the Trump campaign for exploiting it as well, people lapped up the Clinton narrative that was whipped up on the Internet, primarily through re-posts on Facebook. The Internet is an amazing leveller, where an article from Infowars can look just as convincing as something from the NYT if you want to believe the narrative. Twitter is overstated in it's effect for mine, but FB is the single biggest media outlet on the planet these days.

What will be interesting now is the legitimising of the Get Clinton rhetoric, where these right-wing pundits take the positions in the mainstream media that they so reportedly despise.

This is the real reason why Clinton lost the election and it didn't take facebook or even a graph for them to realise they needed to look at another option. The group think driving the media is beyond laughable when you look at the data - and if you are someone in that bottom 90% your lack of work / life balance is proof enough.

The next piece of the puzzle is to get people to understand how government spending really functions and the role the banking sector plays in the media groupthink debacle. This won't be easy though because the Democrat / Republican Two party dictatorship is ultimately in bed with each other here.