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In reply to the discussion: Just had a terrible confrontation w/ a friend: Damn Fox "news" to hell! [View all]essaynnc
(799 posts)I'm sorry that you had such a confrontation with an "almost" friend.
I had a similar experience earlier in the week, with an acquaintance and his girlfriend. We started talking about the pandemic and he quickly started spouting obvious faux news talking points... how the cure is worse than the disease, how more people are dying due to the shutdown, how it's killing the economy and the deaths are overblown, we have to get people back to work, how sunshine and blood transfusions "cure" the disease. His girlfriend was looking on with horror as he talked, I finally told him, look, you're obviously a fox news junkie, and you're just repeating what you've heard. You need to do some research, not just parrot what you've heard.
He just turned around and walked away...... I don't think that he'll ever reach out to me again.