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No one actually believes Jim Acosta did anything wrong.
This is one of those situations where conservatives collectively pretend to believe something they don’t believe.
Pretending to believe something they don’t believe serves multiple purposes.
One, it signals tribal loyalty. Being willing to say blatantly false things shows you put tribe over truth, and that is a critical loyalty test, as anyone who has studied cults can tell you.
Two, they’re trolling. “Triggering the libs” is the meats and potatoes of their political ideology these days (read my book, Troll Nation). Telling blatant lies and watching liberals make themselves crazy insisting on “facts” and “evidence” makes them laugh in delight.
Three, they are trying to push the idea that violence against women isn’t a real problem, but something people only pretend to care about to score points.
How better to seed that idea than only pretending to care to score points?
Fourth, it's about reestablishing Trump's narrative that the media are the "enemy" to be defeated instead of a Fourth Estate necessary to keep democracy healthy. This helps, in turn, fuel the already strong message that democracy is wrong and authoritarianism is right.
Fifth, it's a straight up distraction. Trump wants everyone "debating" a completely obvious video, instead of talking about how he's trying to conceal what is almost certainly very serious crimes by interfering with the Mueller investigation.
You will notice conservatives filing these mentions with insistence that they do, too, believe Acosta did something wrong.
They are, to the last of them, lying.
I block and move on. You should, too. You cannot discourse with people who lie for sport.
One more thought: Watching the ease with which conservatives pretend to believe something they clearly cannot believe — that Acosta did anything wrong — should really be a moment to think about what other beliefs they only pretend to hold. I'd say quite a few!
Trump is accelerating a process that's been going on for decades, where conservatives pretend to believe climate change isn't happening, abortion is murder, evolution is a lie, tax cuts lead to prosperity.
The lies are just getting more blatant as a show of power.
Thread by @AmandaMarcotte: "No one actually believes Jim Acosta did anything wrong. This is one of those situations where conservatives collectively pretend to believe […]"
This is one of those situations where conservatives collectively pretend to believe something they don’t believe.
Pretending to believe something they don’t believe serves multiple purposes.
One, it signals tribal loyalty. Being willing to say blatantly false things shows you put tribe over truth, and that is a critical loyalty test, as anyone who has studied cults can tell you.
Two, they’re trolling. “Triggering the libs” is the meats and potatoes of their political ideology these days (read my book, Troll Nation). Telling blatant lies and watching liberals make themselves crazy insisting on “facts” and “evidence” makes them laugh in delight.
Three, they are trying to push the idea that violence against women isn’t a real problem, but something people only pretend to care about to score points.
How better to seed that idea than only pretending to care to score points?
Fourth, it's about reestablishing Trump's narrative that the media are the "enemy" to be defeated instead of a Fourth Estate necessary to keep democracy healthy. This helps, in turn, fuel the already strong message that democracy is wrong and authoritarianism is right.
Fifth, it's a straight up distraction. Trump wants everyone "debating" a completely obvious video, instead of talking about how he's trying to conceal what is almost certainly very serious crimes by interfering with the Mueller investigation.
You will notice conservatives filing these mentions with insistence that they do, too, believe Acosta did something wrong.
They are, to the last of them, lying.
I block and move on. You should, too. You cannot discourse with people who lie for sport.
One more thought: Watching the ease with which conservatives pretend to believe something they clearly cannot believe — that Acosta did anything wrong — should really be a moment to think about what other beliefs they only pretend to hold. I'd say quite a few!
Trump is accelerating a process that's been going on for decades, where conservatives pretend to believe climate change isn't happening, abortion is murder, evolution is a lie, tax cuts lead to prosperity.
The lies are just getting more blatant as a show of power.
Thread by @AmandaMarcotte: "No one actually believes Jim Acosta did anything wrong. This is one of those situations where conservatives collectively pretend to believe […]"
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I hope she's ok. Better retire for her health.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractures 3 ribs in fall
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractures 3 ribs in fall
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The Failed md proves once again he's TDS delusional. No wonder he can't get his license back.
And so does the failure of an ""md" we have on this thread
President Trump thinks a good investment would be spending tens of billions of dollars on a border wall, and sending thousands of U.S. troops to do something or other down there. The point, if there is one, is that you can’t wait for a problem to arrive before taking action. Oh, if only he, and we, could actually learn that lesson.
As usual, Trump pointed, and the media, as usual, went running in the direction he pointed. Suddenly we saw reporters standing alongside exhausted, desperate walkers heading our way. Did the media go because they wanted to do Trump’s political diversion work for him? Did they go because they wanted to humanize the individuals? Did they go because there were good visuals, like standing up a rain-slicked weather reporter to shout and gesture at an approaching hurricane? Who knows? They never tell us what the actual story is, because they, or their editors, don’t ask themselves the right question before boarding the plane.
And the question they so often fail to ask is, “Why is this happening?” If they asked, or cared, we might learn something astonishingly important.
Why are all these Hondurans suddenly so desperate that they leave everything behind and set off on a near-hopeless pilgrimage? Did you wonder? Did you hear any explanation? Poverty something something? How about this: Yet one more crisis stoked by, yes, accelerating climate change. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/11/06/how-climate-change-is-affecting-rural-honduras-and-pushing-people-north/?utm_term=.4bf378c0b485 (Here’s one person) who has some insight into it, and predictably, it was all but obliterated as information by more flashy angles. Huh. Just like the coverage of climate-intensified hurricanes, come to think of it.
Farmers on drought-blasted farms were still trying to grow corn, but “the corn cobs tucked inside the husks were small and kernel-less.” Yeah, that will do it. And so they walk. And this is only the beginning. Refugees from ruined agricultural land and the consequent ruined political systems around the globe are the future we are baking for ourselves. (See also climate-change-affected Syria, and the consequences of their refugees on Europe, and the political instability resulting there, and warfare in Syria, with yet more refugees.)
What on earth is wrong with Americans that we can’t see past arguing about the preposterous “solutions” of arming more groups or building a wall to keep the wailing refugees at bay behind a physical barrier? I ask this question with dead seriousness, and with obvious escalating desperation. This is now an acute crisis, knowable, known and playing out over and over right before our eyes. The media won’t cover it as a crisis, the public doesn’t understand it as a crisis, and we won’t act like it’s a crisis. But everybody wants to have a hot opinion about the freaking wall or whether it’s good tactics to pull babies away from their mothers and put them in cages.
Is our capacity to reason finished? Is our ability to act to save home and humanity beyond us? Will future archaeologists (if there are any) examine our mummified skulls and declare that the brains tucked inside the husks were small and kernel-less?
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Sweet people. Yet they worry about wittle jimmy losing his press pass for assaulting a woman aide
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