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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome of the "discussions" hinted at by the media and elsewhere remind me
of something. . what is it? Some phrase I used to hear. . Now, what was it? ? ? Oh, yes, "just asking questions".
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Some of the "discussions" hinted at by the media and elsewhere remind me (Original Post)
niyad
Jul 2024
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usonian
(13,303 posts)1. Do you mean these "questions"?
Bettie
(16,849 posts)3. Wow, you could just change a word here and there
and it would be the same headlines. Shocking....well, not that shocking.
usonian
(13,303 posts)6. ChatGOP (fictional)
AI makes it all so much easier.
Mendacity too!
Bettie
(16,849 posts)7. LOL...that is funny
and sad...scary, all sorts of things.
NotASurfer
(2,306 posts)4. And a phrase I hear now - "people are saying"
Used as a way to invent disinformation and attribute it to, well, nobody, while claiming you're not lying through your teeth because (honest) somebody else said it
PatSeg
(49,589 posts)5. Oh yes, you're right!
So now most of the media is using Tucker Carlson's playbook? How much lower can they sink?
niyad
(119,182 posts)8. Sadly, there is NO bottom to their perfidy.
PatSeg
(49,589 posts)10. Yeah, I wouldn't have thought it was possible
just a few years ago. Trump has changed everything.