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Originally Posted by Bucco
Not sure what you lived through in 2020, but if you refer to the election, it is pretty much what I expected.
GOP did pretty well except at the top of the ticket, and lost their majority because of the "top if the ticket"
Maybe if you explain what YOU lived through, it may help.
There was truth everywhere and the untruths were proven over and over again to be exactly that....untruths
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I really need to do that? The election was just one example but a good one. Let’s add Covid lest we forget that. There are more. My point is that almost no information in media exists without spin and there is no source of objective truth. We spend ridiculous amounts of time arguing about sources (a facet of the Google and social media business model) that simply replicate other sources adding spin, nuance, fabrication, idealism, morality, logic, or whatever word suits. Not new but bigger and better in 2020 are bold lies without even being sandwiched between truths. Machine generated news that motivates clicks without the expense of reporting real life. “Predictions” are in the same bucket. Always something horrible, they almost never come true but are taken as truth and we argue about them too as we click away to prove them. Covid generated wonderful revenue for nearly every platform (including Lester’s) from predictions alone.
My point is simple (or I thought it was); who can believe any of it after the rich experience we lived through in 2020?