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Is the internet a good place to get your news?
Hello:
My
nice liberal son decided cable was too expensive, so he gave it up..
Now, he's on the internet.. YouTube is his fav.. Since then, he
believes contrails are poisoning us, Trump is good, the earth is flat, 9/11 was a
hoax and so was the moon landing, cause, you know, flags were waving.
In other words when you get the Commie controlled state media out of your ear constantly beating the drum of hate Trump, hate conservatives, your view of the world will change in some way.
Well, when they continually propigate Marxist positions designed to destroy nations, like propping up Pueblo Sin Fronteras, a Marxist group attempting to flood us with poverty stricken people who will be dependent on the state and supportive of a mass Communist state because it sounds better than where they came from. A technique for destroying non Communist cultures advanced in philosophy by Hegel, Marx and Lenin.
Or like when they attempt to crush us between taxation and inflation, another Communist tactic for nation destruction.
Or when they prop up the mass influx of Marxist professors, and back Marxist politicians.
Or the best one. When I can predict every position the media will take on every issue based soley on the writings of Marx.
First, how would that make them state media? Second, you are attributing a lot of things to Marxism that are far more reasonably attributed to many other things.
It is the classic issue here in the US (and elsewhere, but it has become really bad here) where we give the benefit of the doubt to those we agree with, and the worst possible assumptions about those we don't. You consistently ascribe malice to actions that aren't reasonably characterized that way, and are far more likely justifies by opinions you simply don't share.
People with different opinions aren't evil. They aren't malicious. They just don't share some of your opinions.
People with different opinions aren't evil. They aren't malicious. They just don't share some of your opinions.
Marxists are evil by definition due to the tenants of the ideology. Reading Marxist quotes and literature is like reading the anti Sermon on the Mount. The end goal is literally to destroy the West and enslave it.
That is explicitly untrue. There isn't a single tenant of actual Marxist ideology, rather than offshoots from people like Lenin, that fall for that. The end goal is literally for the working class to democratically seize the means of production for the purposes of creating a direct democratic state with shared burden and profit. It is impossible and utopian, but nothing like what you are describing.
The end goal is literally for the working class to democratically seize the means of production for the purposes of creating a direct democratic state with shared burden and profit. It is impossible and utopian, but nothing like what you are describing
Except that the people dangling it as a carrot to the masses always wind up slaughtering them.
Yeah, that's a criticism of vanguardism, which Marx explicitly critiqued, and which is incompatible with the utopian idea of a non violent pure democratic workers uprising.
I believe that conservatives need to be banned from the internet and put in concentration camps where they will be force fed Marxism until they puke and ask for seconds.
That isn't reasonable at all, and on some level you have to know that. Nobody can pick one person on a website like this and act like they are representative of ANY ideology.
Nobody can pick one person on a website like this and act like they are representative of ANY ideology.
Except that he acts and others I have crossed, act just like their Marxist fathers and as I would have predicted them too. The clue is that Marxist traits are predictable. Predictably violent, dark, dishonest and slanderous.
Some ideologies are more consistently followed by twisted, tyrannical psychopaths.
All of the conservatives I interact with are complete assholes. Does that mean I would be justified in acting like they are repsentative?
Of course not, because anecdotal evidence is insufficient to make representative claims regarding large groups.
When you ascribe malicious intent to those you disagree with, it isn't surprising you manage to find reaffirming examples, since you are assuming malicious intent.
All of the conservatives I interact with are complete assholes. Does that mean I would be justified in acting like they are repsentative?
YES!! If 100 percent of the Conservatives you interact with are assholes, then you would be justified to think that not a coincidence.
Of course not, because anecdotal evidence is insufficient to make representative claims regarding large groups.
Now you're confusing two different concepts. You didn't ask if everybody else should be convinced by your experiences with Conservatives. You asked if you personally should be convinced.
When you ascribe malicious intent to those you disagree with, it isn't surprising you manage to find reaffirming examples
This is the fallacy sometimes known as putting the cart before the horse (i.e. effect before cause). You presume the reason comes after the decision, which of course is the opposite to the way things actually work (i.e. you do something mean and then I "ascribe malicious intent"). Indeed, you appear to be contradicting your very own opening paragraph, in which you confirmed that the Conservatives you interact with behave like (i.e. "are") assholes. Hence, you are looking like quite the hypocrite by being guilty of precisely what you accuse others of in your final paragraph (i.e. ascribing "malicious intent to those you disagree with").
Of course not, because anecdotal evidence is insufficient to make representative claims regarding large groups
We judge you by the entities you bow to.
Media
Academia
Hollywood
And they are controlled by the far left.
You can generally judge large groups when said groups are ideological in nature. We aren't judgin a-political, regular Joe's here. We're judging leftists.
An attempted word sald won't change the fact that watching the Democrat Party's tactics is like I'm reading Communist literature as their playbook. If you execute Alinskyism and Communist tactics in mass, you have revealed your true ideology. It's comparable to Animal Farm. I can't tell the difference between the pigs and the humans anymore.
Except it isn't actually those things. You keep defining many of these things as fundamentally related to communism and alinsky when they are far more reasonably attributed to more mundane things.
You sound exactly like the Democrats near me that attribute damn near every Republican action to fascism, ethno nationalism, etc.
It's so tiring to listen to people who are convinced that people who don't agree with them are evil. There isn't any room for legitimate debate.
My nice liberal son decided cable was too expensive, so he gave it up.. Now, he's on the internet.. YouTube is his fav.. Since then, he believes contrails are poisoning us, Trump is good, the earth is flat, 9/11 was a hoax and so was the moon landing, cause, you know, flags were waving.
DUDE!
excon
SUPER STUPID are YOU now adding MAKE BELIEVE SONS to your FALSE INTERNET RESUME?
9/11 was real. What you were told about it (including who was responsible) was the hoax. When you guys bought into the bin Laden narrative that's when I knew America was finished. It will be a slow decline, like in the case of Rome, but it's too late to change anything now. Indeed, given Trump's election, one might argue you are plunging headfirst into decline with great enthusiasm.
Back in 2001 the most hardline Republicans were itching to take advantage of the fall of the Soviet Union by pillaging the Middle East, but they needed a plausible narrative for intervention. Conveniently, along walks the worst terrorist attack in history. Nothing to see here. Just move along please.
The internet is superior to TV news because TV news has such a strong pro-establishment bias. Choose individuals and outlets that source their claims and after you learn anything, search the thing you learned followed by "debunked".
In other words, if you don't simply believe everything you are told and look for dissenting opinions you will be fine. This goes for the mainstream media too, pretty much everything is misleading, half true, biased, leaves out important facts or is wholly false.
Often in the forums or in social networks you can find the phrase "I will calculate you by IP." We constantly receive requests from various people who are blackmailed or insulted in the network. All of them are asked to send the IP address of their abuser and it is possible with tool such as https://sitechecker.pro/ip-checker/ to check the place and find somebody.
Each site that we visit, including VKontakte, keeps a history of user visits, in which at least the IP address from which it was visited and the time of the visit is stored. This history is stored in the server log.
And if the user’s visit to the site was direct, then this visit will be recorded in the event log indicating the real IP address and time of the visit. But if the user logged into the site using any means of anonymization, then the IP address of the anonymizer, proxy server or vpn that he used will be recorded in the log. That is, the site will not be able to recognize the real IP address of the visitor in this case and will record a completely different IP address.
Thus, even if we can get an IP address, there is absolutely no guarantee that this is really the real IP address of a person and not the IP of any anonymizing tool.