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nightscanner59

(802 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 07:55 AM Jul 2015

Don't forget to jump off DU now and then and take on the idiots. Here's why:

Speaking truth to the troglodytes sometimes seems a waste when they turn around and the flashy graphics on Faux Noize confirms their idiocy. BUT...
Their children often are more open to the information. I'm not attempting to change the minds of the entrenched on idiotic RW sites, I know how futile that is. But I do attempt to not allow them to completely drown out any voices of dissent. Children are listening.
By the time these kids get voting age the most dangerous plot I see of the MSM is to enforce the meme that your vote doesn't count, or doesn't change anything. That's seems these days to be the hardest thing to get through to younger citizens these days.
One of Fox New's affiliate RW propaganda sites got shut down by Fox due to rhetoric that became so inflammatory it scared even the Fox people into closing it down. I've noticed how they are attempting to soften their rhetoric lately as I surf by.
They are paying their own due by rabble rousing the well armed troglodyte population. I honestly wish one of these idiots that go postal would directly implicate Fox in their terrorism. Perhaps that would finally soak many of the thick skulls about the danger.
Meantime, all we can do is attempt to change hearts and minds one at a time.
In the case of SodaHead, one of Fox's sites that became insane, I saw the fruits of my attempts: The younger folks who started chiming in with the antediluvian idiots who echo all their propaganda recognized that those who spoke calmly, rationally and with scientific basis to their posts... later recognized just how idiotic the troglodytes they originally were giving the nod to behave. And that may have been the real reason Fox shut the whole thing down.

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Don't forget to jump off DU now and then and take on the idiots. Here's why: (Original Post) nightscanner59 Jul 2015 OP
Wow, I didn't even know there was a "Propaganda Debunking" group tularetom Jul 2015 #1
I was also not aware of this forum Gothmog Jul 2015 #2
I just don't have the stomach for it anymore, Curmudgeoness Jul 2015 #3
K&R azmom Jul 2015 #4

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
1. Wow, I didn't even know there was a "Propaganda Debunking" group
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 08:04 AM
Jul 2015

Hell, debunking propaganda is the #1 reason a lot of us are here in the first place.

I'll definitely be back, may even subscribe.

Gothmog

(154,549 posts)
2. I was also not aware of this forum
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 08:34 AM
Jul 2015

It is very interesting.

Yes, I agree that it helps to confront conservatives on forums other than DU.

Curmudgeoness

(18,219 posts)
3. I just don't have the stomach for it anymore,
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 11:23 AM
Jul 2015

but I do agree with you. I have always said that for every person who is posting, there are possibly hundreds of people reading the comments. You will not get through to the haters, but you have no idea how many minds you can change with reasonable comments and facts.

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