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You know how I shit on MSM outlets and how they create sensational headlines that are half truths, while burying the full story deep in the article? We've posted the actual study on this site before that proved the percentages of people who don't read past the headline. Just stumbled upon a Twitter thread that shows this in action.

The woman not only believes the lie, but she obviously never bothers to read the Community Notes attached to the lie. This is made worse because she reposts it multiple times within the thread and the Community Notes are there every time. The fact that other people also believe it and don't bother reading the notes says so much.

(BTW, I still believe we are heading towards verified accounts being mandatory for all social media platforms.)

This is the exact point of the half-truth headlines. They know their idiots will be useful and propagate the half-truth, so their side has a better chance of winning the prizes. Making it only a half-lie gives them plausible deniability, "We didn't mean to lie, and anyway the actual facts were there, 9 paragraphs down."

Like, almost literally a moron:

admitting that he walked out of the theater as he found the film dull and hard to follow.

He should stick with the Fast and Furious franchise. Nothing challenging there.

GORDON wrote: ↑Mon Aug 21, 2023 10:03 am Like, almost literally a moron:

admitting that he walked out of the theater as he found the film dull and hard to follow.

He should stick with the Fast and Furious franchise. Nothing challenging there.

WHY CAN CARS FLY? IT MAKES NO SENSE

Ted Cruz.

Wait until he hears about sharknados.

Gross

Yeah. I saw this yesterday, and people were saying it was RACIST to criticize them.

NO. NO It's NOT.

"You shouldn't swim in that. It's raw sewage and who knows what other chemicals are mixed in."
"Shut up racist!"

6 months later...

"You have legionnaire's disease, probably from swimming in sewage."
"Not warning me that could happen is racist."

Person: Don't do that, it is bad for you.
Group: Don't do that, it is bad for you.
Society: Don't do that, it is bad for you.

"Everyone is trying to oppress me!"

Thing happens, exactly as warned.

"Why didn't anyone tell me! Everyone else is at fault!"

There are lots of situations that little model fits in.

We never should have put "Don't use this in the bathtub" warnings on toasters.

We need to let Darwinism happen.

Heh.

I just went through that process.

Did not spend it on hair and nails.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Tue Aug 22, 2023 10:52 am

Ted Cruz.

I'm glad that shit never happens with our east coast hurricanes!

Not Zoomers, rich kids who are out of touch, but still...

They're zoomers, do they even know what money is?

About 17 years ago, I was working at the local electric company, and one of my coworkers and I (so we're both around 30) and I were talking about money. He was CONVINCED that about 1/2 of Americans were millionaires, and 10% of them or more were $10 millionaires. I was like "Dude no way" and he was like "Way"... at any rate. He was just floored when I showed him the real numbers (back then was like 5% and < 1% respectively).

TheCatt wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 7:55 am He was CONVINCED that about 1/2 of Americans were millionaires, and 10% of them or more were $10 millionaires.

That's insane.

I really wonder what the percentage is of Americans who simply do not have a grasp of what the average salary is, cost of living, etc.