Sigh... wow Elon, I wonder why that is
My favorite genre: people walk right up to the truth then turn back around and go the other way
No way, this is awesome, thanks!
Do you know r/LeopardsAteMyFace? It's also very good.
Not so much, people really struggle with reading the LAMF flowchart, so it's full of stuff that is r/selfawarewolves or even should be on this sub.
people really struggle with reading the LAMF flowchart, so it's full of stuff that is r/selfawarewolves or even should be on this sub
I've read that somewhere on that sub, too.
But I usually don't care that much because I like all three of them, even though the goals of the subs are not that clear anymore.
Seeing posts do well in a subreddit that isn't appropriate is one of my pet hates. LAMF is bad for it. I remember seeing a post that was a x-post of someone saying something like "I had voted Republican all my life, but didn't vote for Trump. Now Trump has done a thing that has negatively impacted my life". That's almost the opposite of a LAMF post.
Yeah, I had to unsub from LAMF cause I got so sick of being downvoted for pointing that out. LAMF just devolved into an easy karma farm.
Damn I just got the pun by reading the first line of description. Never occurred to me
It’s the punchline of the joke about the two Republicans get to heaven ( which is how you know it’s a joke) and ask god about the election. God says it wasn’t stolen so the Republican turns to the other one and says “this cover up goes even higher than I suspected!”
Willfully ignorant, willfully angry, naturally stupid. And all they’re evidence is trust me bro and doctored video.
Look into Lev Parnas to see the lengths the went to in order to frame Biden. It’s insanity.
Edit gif to god
Always thinking they’re some kinda gif to god out here …
The last thing some ppl want to do is acknowledge they were wrong, strangley enough even if they found out they were being lied to in the first place.
It's easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled.
Watching the Highway exit meme unfold in real life.
Elon saw “leftwing misinformation” and just tripped over himself in eagerness to reply to it.
I love looking at the interactions with the tweets he replies to because most of the time they're like this one. 1k likes and 66 retweets in not a lot, which means that for him to see this he has to have a bunch of filters for stuff like this. It's so embarrassing to think about him sitting around waiting to get a notification about a tweet like this that he can respond to. dude is a joke
He's spending time digging this deep on twitter while Tesla stock craters and he's actively asking shareholders to approve a compensation package he 'earned' through stock price levels that are now a distant memory to investors losing value hand over fist. How long before Tesla starts to fold and he has to step down or lose it all I wonder.
This is what blows my mind. With that kind of money he could be doing anything, and he’s looking at twitter?
I think the same thing about Rowling.
She's got Potterverse money. She could be doing literally anything she wants, go drink expensive wines with important people, or go jet skiing with dolphins, or move to a small town and give out ice cream to children for free.
Instead she gets into insane arguments on the internet.
Sometimes I wonder if people who get into the hundreds of millions or billions just get bored as fuck. They’re essentially completely insulated from any of the drives that give life a sense of meaning or progress, if they don’t want to they don’t have to achieve anything. Musk, JKR, Buffet etc could just lay on a couch for the rest of their lives watching TV or doom scrolling and nothing bad would happen to them.
You could do something good with that money/time. Or you can try to gain as much money as you can on top of that by hurting other people. That’s when currency accumulation becomes a mental illness imo. It’s a process addiction at that point.
Being a billionaire is little more than a unique form of hoarding disorder.
One that has the unfortunate side effect of destroying society and the planet we live on at the same time
And also turning you into a celebrity and bringing people’s implicit admiration and respect. People talk about the halo effect for someone who’s very attractive but good lord if someone’s worth a lot of money or has a high-level job people just assume they’re gods, it’s crazy. They’re far more likely to have sociopathic tendencies than be an implicitly better person than you.
There’s a stark contrast between being addicted to, say, heroin and being addicted to currency hoarding and…well, terminally online hate.
We need our rich people to be more Jimmy Buffett, and less Warren Buffett
She could be paying people money to give a fuck about what she's talking about.
It costs more money than you think to find dolphins that can jetski.
Didn't Rupert Grint literally buy an ice cream truck and give out ice cream for free?
Yo! Did you just deadname X? /s
He's manipulating the stock. He does this fairly often. Obtains a bunch of money, says or does something to kill stock, invest said money, stock soars, gainz.
His emotions got the better of him.
Good point
So close to figuring it out, and yet so far...
Almost there…
A sisyphean act
Oh come now, we all know damn well that nail is going straight through that skull of theirs, and they'll just think it was a mosquito
But in the end it doesn’t even matterrrr
Good point
It's been years, and they're still struggling to even consider that maybe the reason the right wing gets called out on misinfo more is because they spread more misinfo.
Reality is not their friend unfortunately.
I mean, do they actually really believe it, or are they actually 'bad faith' actors as their purpose?
No they really believe this stuff... the entirety of my father's family are all Right Wingers, and they believe it all.
"This Is Not Healthy For Our Democracy" is such an understatement, isn't it?
I mean, what is at risk here is not just our democracy.
It's sanity, itself. It's putting even caring about finding out objective truth, at risk.
It's the risk of slipping into the darkness of superstition and fascism or feudalism or whatever the fuck it will look like, and how comfortably it will be invited in.
It's so easy to say the problem is stupid people. If we just didn't have so many stupid people, if good education was everywhere.
Well that's not really the problem.
The problem is how the right actually have several massive advantages.
They know how to target enough people to just about stay in power.
They are unconstrained by any sense they will be held accountable for complete fabrications, because they control the local media, again in just the right places.
Think of Jim Jordan, and how we laugh at what he says for soundbites for Fox News.
This is a carefully fabricated reality they're constructing. And you know, it's either on the verge of falling apart, or the verge of taking over completely, all the time.
Those stupid people are victims, too. They no longer have access to high quality reporting. They have been manipulated and taken advantage of. They deserve better, even if we are so angry at them.
This is my own little game I like to play with these types of accounts. Figuring out if they are lying on purpose or just stupid. It's fun. A bit depressing though.
"Alternative Facts" as some might say.
"Bidens too old for office but trump shitting in his pants is totally manly and patriotic'..... also before anyone says anything, I believe both these clowns are too old to hold office.
It doesnt matter how old Biden is. He surrounds himself with capable, intelligent people apparently. Either he or they or both he and they achieved a lot this last four yrs.
The other option is an old man who cannot keep ANYONE in his immediate orbit. Every cab member or advisor he has ever had, fired or left on bitter terms because they cannot stand him.
Both are still old but the choice is still clear.
I think it does matter how old he is. I understand that biden may or may not have qualified staff around him but many of his public appearances have not given me confidence. It's not really debatable that mental acuity falls off over time. I wouldn't be griping if he was 67 years old but being in your 80s when you run for president,when the average life expectancy for a man in america is under 75 is unnerving. When biden graduated high school there were still segregated schools. Politicians don't really give me alot of hope especially when the ramifications of their actions will not even be felt in their lifetime. A few senators in their 70s and 80s could help pass bills that could affect the climate or economy for decades and they could be dead by the next election. The worst part is there isn't even another option, it's seemingly increasingly likely that it's trump or biden because that's what our two party system decided.
This is so easy. Biden isn’t going to destroy our democracy. I don’t care if he’s 200 years old.
It is..... but don't act like you wouldn't prefer another option besides these two mummies
I could care less how old anyone is as long as they are getting the job done. I don't discriminate against folks; I'm not a bigot. With our democracy is stake I have enough sense to do everything in my power to get Biden elected.
I'd like my decision when choosing the leader of my country not to be boiled down to my candidate is not a wannabe dictator. I would like a higher standard for my president that's just my opinion. I'm just sitting her wishing that the bar was higher than someone who doesn't want to overthrow democracy.
We just disagree; that’s no big deal. No candidate and their team are ever going to meet any individual voter’s every expectation. That is a fantasy world.
IMO, Biden is getting the job done on MULTIPLE fronts. He and his team are doing way more than “just” keeping us from losing our democracy. BUT, I repeatedly brought up the issue of democracy because it is the most important issue in THIS election.
Do I agree with EVERY SINGLE THING Biden does? No, but that’s not going to happen with ANY other candidate either.
I’m not only voting for Biden, I’m donating and volunteering for his campaign as well. I don’t have time to sit on my hands doing nothing but complain about how any particular candidate doesn’t meet my every need.
AND, further, when anyone uses bigoted discrimination (age, race, sex, etc.) to try and discredit someone, I speak up. I have no time for bigotry either.
We disagree, that’s how the world works sometimes. No biggie.
I'd like my decision when choosing the leader of my country not to be boiled down to my candidate is not a wannabe dictator. I would like a higher standard for my president that's just my opinion. I'm just sitting her wishing that the bar was higher than someone who doesn't want to overthrow democracy.
So what? Whining about not liking either option won't magically make a new option appear. When your choices are a sinking ship or a dingy life raft, are you going to jump in the raft, or are you going to stand on the ship and complain about not having a yacht?
I would truly prefer Bidens corpse as president over trump..but to be fair, I'd also prefer bidens corpse over biden. It's gonna be a hard few years*
I like biden but just curious what about voting third party?
Of course you think both are too old, we couldn't acknowledge an issue with the right without making absolutely certain to let everyone know we also hate the Dems.
They’re so close. And yet so far away.
The answer is obvious. The left has full control of the media machine and has been protecting left sources by either hiding the fact that it's misinformation, or attributing it to right wing sources.
/S
The left not only owns the media they also took god himself hostage, so their facts appear to be accurate because they make god change reality in their favour!!11!
/s
I'm glad /s exists because I'm sure these are actually things the right wing say.
I do not know how you could forget about the baby eating aren't you hungry
oh yeah, definitely
Okay, but if someone has taken the lord god almighty as a hostage...
Fuck it, that's the side I'm on. Not gonna try and fight that.
It's sad to know that someone somewhere will actually believe this is true.
The left has been using the reality stone to make their misinformation reality!
He's turned that app into a cesspool for idiots
Inb4 there are 1,000 new accounts with blue checkmarks posting leftist conspiracy theories.
But real talk… what would those conspiracies be? Proven facts such as “the left thinks Donald Trump benefited from Russian interference in the 2016 election!”
Its because to them rightwing conspiracies are proven facts in there own little heads and that the leftist ones are wrong
It's hard to tell if he has hooked up a bot to this account or he is the bot.
Why does the dog catcher only catch dogs?!?
Are these leftist conspiracies in the room with us now?
Keep going, just another step or two ...
So close reality that if it was a snake it would bite them in the ass. Shame they continue to reject reality.
Republicans impaling themselves on the point and still missing it
"Conservatives running straight into the point and missing it."
Obviously, trump supporter. Just like trump, only he is correct, and everyone else is lying.
It's like the call is coming from inside the house
I wrote a paper on misinformation about a year ago and if I remember correctly right leaning misinformation just tends to spread farther as on average it will go through less fact checking by the target audience and there is just more of it out there as fearmongering to gain political power is way more common on the right side of politics.
They're so close to seeing it!
They’re very far from seeing it.
Because most of the conspiracy nuts are on the right lol
What's surprising is that this wasn't always the case. Before the internet (and until the begining of the 2000s) a fair bit of conspiracy theories were pretty left-leaning and spread in left-leaning circles. Then again it was not "satanist pedophiles are sacrificing children in the basement of a pizza place".
Stuff like the roswell aliens trope (shadow military experimenting on alien tech to develop bigger more dangerous weapon, pretty anti-military in its core), or illuminatis (shadow government starting wars for profit and manipulating the masses to stay atop the pyramid, pretty obvious class warfare trope). There was also the usual super-weapons tropes that were attributed to military gone mad like the haarp conspiracy, or the innumerable "free energy is being supressed by big corps!" (water engine, cold fusion, perpetual movement, etc... basicaly "capitalism is keeping us from being our best selves" tropes).
These were fairly common, usualy anti-militarist and/or anti-capitalist. But then somewhere in the 2000s there was a slow shift, which gained tremendous momentum in the early 2010s, culminating with the trump campaigns. Now instead of having fun conspiracy theories about science gone mad or aliens being probed back (that'll teach 'em to touch our no-no holes!) we have braindead creationist bullshit, ultra-religious nonsense, or thinly veiled scientology recrutment pamphlets and rehash of SG-1.
When most conspiracy theories are from your side
"Nah it's definitely biased data"
Is anyone aware of any LEGIT Twitter accounts which track ROUND EARTH misinformation info being posted on this site?
I follow three accounts that track misinformation and 98% of what they post about is coming from flat earthers.
The fact that most of it...
It’s like they run right into the point but still miss it. 🤦‍♀️
Ugh. They’re so close to figuring it out
One more time they came SO close to getting it...
They're always so close. Just so close to the point.
Reality has a very hard left wing bias. It's fine to acknowledge this and still defend some position you have. But they just deny reality
How can someone that stupid be that rich?
It's quite simple, when you are born rich as he was you just buy your way to success and take credit for smart people's ideas. Just pay people to make you more money, it is like a landslide going uphill lol
They're SO close to having a real thought...
Isn't that guy a white supremacist?
Are there any X accounts that are LEGIT at all? I have found that most of the misinformation that's being spread is coming from an X account.
I saw there was a sub keeping track of Bidens lies and it was at around 150 and I think it was counting things before his presidency. So out of curiosity I checked to see if there was a Trump one and it was at a number that I think was in the 100,000s and it started since Trump’s presidency
Same reason that most vaccine conspiracies can be traced back to about 12 people.
Imagine being so close to getting it, but still missing the point...how frustrating
They are so close.....almost there
I am sick of hearing about anything Elon has said.
Soooooooooo close
I wonder why that might be? It is a mystery
Elon is only interested in right-wing free speech. One of the first things he did after buying Twitter (X) was lift the ban on Donald von Shitzinpantz. I've been steadily trying to get him to personally ban me for insulting him. I shitpost periodically and include pics he doesn't want people to see.
Lmao. And they'll still not get it.
I went on twitter after a few years away and wow , it’s a garbage can of trolls and misinformation.
Thankfully, I quickly switched to my following only list and it was still sane.
Now, I only add people that I’ve discovered in other media avenues, such as research papers , YouTube investigative journalism , subject matter experts etc.
If someone on the left has schizophrenia, they will more likely go to a psychiatrist and get medication. If someone on the right has schizophrenia, they will more likely fall into conspiracy theories.
Turns out the side that advocates for mental health awareness is aware of mental health!
Good point
Such a goose-stepping fuckwad.
It’s because conservatism thrives on misunderstanding while progressives thrive on education.
For fucks sake read the room Elon
So close, so VERY close.
Looking into this...
Asking why so many people track right wing disinfo reminds me of the time they asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks.
The only reason I'm a terrorist and a maniac is because I'm terrified about how I imagine the people I don't like might be! /s
Gee, ya don’t say!?!?
doesn’t Elmo own the platform?
There is a saying in my country. If one person tells you you’re drunk, it’s nothing. But if everyone is telling you that you’re drunk, go and take a nap.
Elon is not realising how many people are telling him that “he’s drunk” and he still continues to pretend like it’s nothing.
True, but what happens when so many people are drunk, that they think that it's the people telling them to take a nap that are crazy
I’ll tell you why it’s not: it’s not because the left doesn’t engage in misinformation or conspiracy stuff.
I would like to please see that 2% he's talking about
Looking into it
At least show the full tweet I wanted to know what's written
How much you want to bet he didn’t read all of it?
Not, gee my side spreads a lot of bullshit but gee how dare the other side be aware of how much it actually is.
So odd… how could this be?
Are people still using that platform or is it all bots?
If you put a big X in the top corner of something, that’s where I click to close it.
What’s stopping them from starting their own account tracking left wing misinformation?
Looking into this.
All the right wing conspiracy type theories like RedMap and the Heritage Foundation I learned about from them patting themselves on the back when they rig the system.
Looks like that account has been nuked.
Tried to look it up on Google as I couldn’t find it on Twitter. Found a Tweet, but the search result and Tweet differed. Originally the OOP had been tagged in it, but that’s been somehow removed.
…should we tell him?
I swear Elon's vocabulary is like 5 words and an exclamation point.
He's definitely the best Kardashian....
Conspiracy theory: It is because Musk has them blocked.
/s, but someone will believe it.
EM Musked again…soon he will be best known as Mush…he’s not the same as he was…even an implant can’t help him reach his early-years abilities.
We don't need to make up conspiracies on the left. We just need to read the day's newspaper and bills to know.
Nobody is stopping them from doing it. Go for it.
So close
The answer to the first person's question is most likely: yes, those three accounts they already follow.
The probably do report left-wing misinformation as well, when it happens. They are probably trying to track all misinformation, regardless of wing, and it just so happens to overwhelmingly come from the right-wing.
The fairness doctrine has broken Americas brain
Ah yes, QAnon. The real upholders of truth they'd rather listen to.
Eat the rich ASAP obviously, Musk would be a good start, then we can move onto epstein's other besties, Trump, Clinton, Gates, and of course Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan
Wow I wonder why it's all right wing...
Reality has a left liberal scientific bias
Can anyone tell me why all the shit in my backyard is coming from my neighbors who take a shit in my backyard every day?
Concerning
The vaccine is completely safe, can’t we mention the myocarditis risk? The vaccine is completely safe
If the politicians lips are moving, they are lying. I honestly don't see a point of tracking any kind of mis or disinformation and lies of politicians, it's easier to just assume that all they do is lie unless someone proves them to actually tell the truth.
reality has a left leaning bias
C’mon now … you almost got it … just one more logical thought and you’re there … you can do it.
The man is as thick as mince.
Took this many years for a single maga fool to realize reality
Probably because it's generally the right wing that is a lot more concerned about what is going on behind closed doors, while the left waits to be told what's going on before deciding if it's something they'll believe or agree with.
Why would a right-wing conspiracy theory debunking account be on Twitter when there's Truth Social, Elon...? Don't you think it would thrive better there, Elon??? Truth Social is curated for a right-wing bias since the beginning, Elon. Think, Elon, think...
I see leftists correct leftist misinformation all the time. It usually gets corrected internally before the bs spreads too far.
Elon is now a major source of that right wing insanity
It’s like how it was suspicious that Covid was only affecting the people who didn’t get the vaccine
Joe Biden inherited 9% inflation /s
Quick question, why is this sub flooded with Elon posts? Feels like I see one every day. The sub has become too political I feel like or a bit too serious?
It's the fruit that hangs so low you need a shovel to pick it.
Because he won't stop providing material? Most people with significant exposure only occasionally say/retweet things that are incredibly dumb. Elon makes it a hobby now.
How is calling Elon an idiot political?
Because calling trans people inhuman and for the ending of gay people or anyone who's not rich white cis has become a political issue... Unfortunately that's the state of things in the US. While I disagree heavily on the economic and global opinions of the right wing, half the Dems believe in that shit too. So we're devolved into "hey they deserve rights too" is still political. They are trying to make America like it was.
Cause when one is this low on the rung on intelligence, there are few choices for them to pick on.
Most the left wing misinformation is posted on Reddit
It's, It's almost like the lies are coming from the right and people like EM.
does elmo an fallout 4 character? feels like he only got 3 two word sentence options and one with [stupid shit] option
There's a lot of misinformation from both extremes, but the regular right wing probably has a higher volume of misinformation than the regular left.
I don't think any of the mainstream media is trustworthy at this point though.
Both sides are incredibly biased, and that's how the news agencies make their money, through divisiveness.
I don't think any of the mainstream media is trustworthy at this point though.
Why not?
They're puppets for their respective political parties
In what way? Be more specific.
There's a lot of slant. The news didn't used to be full of opinion pieces, now those are the norm for the major networks.
I am not going to list you the tens of thousands of examples over the last 20 years.
"slant" isn't necessarily misinformation, especially when we're talking about opinion pieces. That doesn't tell us anything about the reliability of the factual information they present.
Because it’s all on Reddit
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are you implying the right is the only side to spread misinformation? i don’t think that’s correct at ALL. i think more flat earthers and their ilk have right leaning political beliefs, but i can also think of multiple occasions during which the left was equally full of shit.
Do you have an example?
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