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Originally Posted by RickeyM
I agree, we're not going to get through to them on message boards and social media. I have a family member that's gone down the rabbit hole. The recently made a comment about offshore windmills causing whale beachings. A couple of winters ago when Texas's power grid went tits-up she repeated the nonsense about windmill failures being the problem. I informed them that those sources gave a max of 10% of Texas's energy they seemed surprised. All this nuttery they heard on Reich-wing angertainment radio of course.
A question I have yet to get a straight answer for (ever since 2016) is if tRump is so great why does he lie so much? Not one straight answer.
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I wasn't sure how much I should push back on MuseChaser's BS. Call them out and they get further isolated, don't call them out and other like minded people take it as validation of the BS MuseChaser was saying. It's too easy for me to get too prickly in online discussion. There's a LateBoomer guy I've been pushing back on lately but I assume it is pointless.
I kind of had a fantasy that a Trump supporter and me being a lifelong Green Party supporter could find some common ground in a meaningless Barbie movie thread, but its never going to happen.
I usually don't participate in online discussions because they are too slow and easy to misinterpret. I got involved in that AI thread because loopstick was getting attacked, and it had gone on for 120 pages of blabbering nonsense. I couldn't believe that the OP then posted a video with a goldfish wearing a tinfoil hat as some kind of proof of the coming AI apocalypse. There was also some story about a "drone kills operator" story that was shown in the thread to be false, and the moderator and others kept talking about it as if the story were true. It was kind of eye opening how f*cked we are that there is no way these people are listening to any Faux news recants (like with this story:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-veterans-fake)
07-27-2023, 09:26 PM
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