OT:::But all is breaking loose in the NC as the legislature tries to strip power from the incoming Democrat governor. Protesters have besieged the state house. I saw one sign that read:::"This is why we can't have nice things."
The world order we live in was born in 1979 or 1980, with Thatcher and Reagan. It made a few core promises:
- If the rich have more money, they will create more jobs;
- Lower taxes will lead to more prosperity;
- Increases in housing and stock market prices will increase prosperity for everyone;
- Trade deals and globalization will make everyone better off.
http://www.ianwelsh.net/the-lies-at-...r-dying-order/These core promises all turned out to be lies. It’s that simple. For most of the population, the last 40-odd years were either an experience of stagnation, or an experience of decline.
Understand clearly, by 79 people had lost faith in the post-WWII order. They were willing to try something new.
That order has now betrayed too many people, and it is falling. It will continue to fall. We are in the twilight of Neoliberalism (longer article on that later.)
But this is why people are going for “fake news”. This is why people are willing to listen to demagogues. This is why people don’t trust the press (why should they, the press lied to them repeatedly, it is the original fake news). This is why they don’t listen when hundreds of economists say Brexit is bad (why should they, most economists missed the housing bubble.)
Neoliberalism has discredited everyone who bought in to it. Who didn’t buy into it? Well, the hard left and what people are now calling the “alt-right”.
So people are turning in those directions, though more to the right. Because people are ideologically and iden y driven, and most are not intellectuals, what they look for are signifiers that someone is not like the people who screwed them, who lied to them for 40 years.
Trump does not talk like those people. Farrage does not talk like those people. On the left, Corbyn does not talk like those people and to a large extent, neither did Sanders.
And so they are turning to people who don’t parse like the regular type of elite. Many of those people are also selling them a bill of goods (Trump, to a large extent), or are nasty pieces of work (Trump, Alt-Right), but that doesn’t matter to a lot of people: they can’t take the pain any more; the assured long decline and they will take a flyer on anyone who might shake things up.
Lie repeatedly, fail to keep your promises, and things like Trump and Brexit will happen. It is that simple.
http://www.cjr.org/special_report/fake_news_history.php“The existence of an independent, powerful, widely respected news media establishment is an historical anomaly,” Georgetown Professor Jonathan Ladd wrote in his 2011 book, Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters. “Prior to the twentieth century, such an ins ution had never existed in American history.” Fake news is but one symptom of that shift back to historical norms, and recent hyperventilating mimics reactions from eras past.
fact-checking perhaps the most untruthful candidate of our lifetime didn’t work; the more news outlets did it, the less the facts resonated
Every time I hear about fake news I think Connie Chung.
It's eerie how the MSM and the gov all started pushing the "fake news" meme at the same time, it's all been coordinated.
The only weird thing about it is that it took so long. The election of an actual buffoon, in large part because of fake news, is what amplified the topic.
Strangely, though, only one side seems to be concerned that this is suddenly a topic of conversation. Wonder why.
What fake news was responsible for electing Trump? Be specific. Back up your claim.
Strange how Dems don't care about the truth bombs in those Wikileaks. Wonder why.
Besides, my problem is how they all use the "fake news" buzzword like robots. This is some Orwellian .
The top 20 fake news stories from August through Election Day generated more engagements (and therefore likely more impressions) via Facebook than the top 20 real news stories in the same date range.
Depends on which "truth bombs." Seeing as Wasserman-Shultz was forced out of her DNC post because of the leaks, I'd say Dems showed more concern than you give them credit for.
"Fake News" literally describes what they're talking about. Not sure why the phrase bothers you so much. It's not the same kind of buzz phrase as, say, "Crooked Hillary" or "Drill Baby Drill."Besides, my problem is how they all use the "fake news" buzzword like robots. This is some Orwellian .
1984 is what the demonrats are striving for.
For the record I don't think fake news is solely responsible for the election of Trump but in an election this close, any one variable could have made the difference.
Eh the msm made a living out of fake news for decades, this is all coordinated. What they really mean is that only they are supposed to have a monopoly on information
Fake news has been winning elections for quite a while now, they just don't like it when its employed against them. It's just someone else's perception of an event versus their (MSM) side of the story
We're not talking about biased perspectives, we're talking about fabricated stories.
When the MSM fabricates a story, that fabrication becomes a bigger story and people get fired.
Lol no sorry they're not that trustworthy and self regulatory. They put out blatantly false stuff all the time. Remember when trump "kicked a crying baby and her mother out of a rally" except it didn't happen? Remember when the rebels were "moderate" until they were al nusra and al qaeda? Clinton people claiming they saw things in Wikileaks that were fabricated and media runnng with it, list goes on
Fake news has also dumbed-down most of the US population. Too bad people don't demand proper journalism these days.
I remember MSM reporting the real version of that incident after the typical Jezebel-type liberal sites played up the clickbaity version of the incident.
Remember when the rebels were "moderate" until they were al nusra and al qaeda?
You'll have to link this one, I'm not familiar.
I remember the Media reporting on the emails of Wikileaks. I do not recall the Media reporting, as fact, that any of the emails were faked, despite the Clinton campaign's quotes.Clinton people claiming they saw things in Wikileaks that were fabricated and media runnng with it
YWashington Post has been the leader of fake news in 2016
i doubt they will get dethroned in 2017
Biggest fake news in the last few years:
- saddam has wmds
- bengazi was due to a youtube video
- assad gassed his peopl
- syrian rebels are moderate opposition
- ghadaffi will massacre his people if we dont bomb
him
- trump will start ww3
- russia influenced election
- hillary would have won if not for russia
funny all these were originated from US government or MSM
-death panels
-you can keep your doctor
Another 2 classic:
- the nuke bombs on Japan spared MILLIONS of lives
- the US defeated the nazis in ww2
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