When Will It All Go Away? The Persistence Of Disinformation

 

"Eye" Hairy's eye is not on us right now.--Shelob

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It is a real shame that people don't have their consciences in order. Lie to one person, it's a sin--what's a lie to the whole world?

Disinformation.

I mean--shouldn't it tell everyone that lying to get something politically would automatically wrong half the nation or more? I mean if it worked, obviously. Lying is like the equivalent of cursing someone.

What does profanity have to do with it?

NO. I mean, if you believed in magic. Curses, hexes, right?

You could use spell check to see if it had happened.

That's not funny. Lying to the world in such hurtful ways is WRONG. Trump did it a lot, but he's not the only one. That whole website

That website, lifesitenews is a disinformation site. What distinguishes it from 'the Onion' which you approve of?

Everyone knows the Onion is satire! As in not real.

Does this mean Pastis' readers are gullible?

No, it means half of the commenters on his comics are gullible and half can't debate very well. Of all of them, I only saw ONE who seemed to understand statistics at all -- that one from Iceland. 

Purple people eater?

That's the one. She also probably didn't need to spend so much time on analogies. Smoking is a choice and people have better protection against smoke than being infected by irresponsible people. Cabin fever can be prevented, even during lockdown, and fairly easily. That site, how do they justify doing what they do?

Unknown.

Why would anyone believe a doctor in ECONOMICS to discuss something medical, when she herself admitted in writing that her statistics weren't sound? That the information was incomplete? That her findings were only contrary based on flawed application? And WHY wouldn't she point out herself that she had no business causing such problems?

Apparently her listeners wanted to believe what she had to say, and she wanted their support.

[disgusted exhalation] Yeah, we'll go with that. [exits]