Comments on: Make America Gullible Again https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/ Thu, 16 May 2019 03:43:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Locus https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-761754 Thu, 16 May 2019 03:43:54 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-761754 Of course everyone has heard by now that Nick Sandmann is suing the Washington Compost.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/19/media/nick-sandmann-washington-post-lawsuit/index.html

It’s going to be hysterical watching all the scum on this blog suddenly defending “free speech” after spending the last half-decade rooting for Mr Potato-Head’s lawsuit against Mark Steyn.

]]> By: Locus https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-761745 Thu, 16 May 2019 03:29:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-761745 Stevo R,

What was “racist” about the link I posted?

]]> By: Locus https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-761744 Thu, 16 May 2019 03:26:56 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-761744 In reply to Jeffh.

So you think it’s acceptable to target kids, simply because they don’t agree with your politics ??????

And what the hell does any of this have to do with the EPA / banking etc ????

]]> By: Stevo R https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-699016 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:24:51 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-699016 In reply to Locus.

It is, is it? Your extraordinary evidence to support this extraordinary claim* would be?

* The Sagan standard :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_standard

PS. We can edit now! Yay! 🙂

Thankyou Greg Laden. Just seen there’s a now-deleted link to apparently a racist site. No, that sort of stuff doesn’t count as proper evidence, Locus.

]]> By: Snyder https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-698920 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 19:24:59 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-698920 In reply to Locus.

Yup, you are gullibled.

]]> By: oa https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-698896 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 16:44:38 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-698896 +1 dean

Greg, good article on context and graphic literacy.

Now, it seems that broadcast news media is eager to defuse the situation by hiding some false equivalence in a haze of hand-waving about how it’s so confusing that nobody can figure out what’s going on… then it’s hurry back to bunches of advertising, some fluff, a few minutes of news-like stenography, a little self promotion and so long ’til we meet again.

IOW, it’s the short term approach to problem solving and image management that’s ingrained in corporate BAU, which is partly how we got into this mess in the first place.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-698868 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:45:01 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-698868 In reply to Jeffh.

Locus has me on the floor with his comment

Locus’ only purposes in life are lying and being racist. He/she should be given no more attention.

]]> By: Jeffh https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-698800 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:59:04 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-698800 Locus has me on the floor with his comment, “what utter monsters the left has [sic] become”. The US has morphed into a right wing kleptocracy, governed by a narcissistic idiot and his corporate/banking goons and Locus or whoever the heck you are demands an apology from Greg because he called out a bunch of brainwashed kids of equally brainwashed right wing patents from a Catholic school wearing MAGA baseball caps and shirts? When is the blowhard-in-chief going to apologize to El Salvador, Haiti and nations across Africa for calling them ‘shitholes’? When for that matter is the US going to apologize to several nations around the world for invading and destroying them? When is Trump or any of the asinine idiots in his administration going to apologize for the immense damage they are doing to the environment by taking apart the EPA and the endangered species act for the sole benefits of rich investors?

People like you Locus, who are really very ‘useful idiots’ for your corporate elite dictatorship, get in a big tizzy over allegedly fake news about these brainwashed kids but turn a blind eye to the profoundly more important issues that have huge implications for the future of society. Your plutocracy has morphed into a kleptocracy in service to a small, ruling elite and you get all uppity about one completely insignificant blip in history.

The current administration under Trump is repugnant in every way, and regardless of the truth of the recent protest it turns my stomach to see kids marching at an anti-abortion ‘protest’ wearing Trump parafanalia. Given the global implications of the anti-environmental policies being pushed through by Trump, these kids are going to grow up in a decaying world.

]]> By: Locus https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-698792 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:14:11 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-698792 Conservatives who joined the false rush-to-judgement are now offering their apologies. Does Greg Laden have the character to do the same?

]]> By: Locus https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/01/21/make-america-gullible-again/#comment-698791 Tue, 22 Jan 2019 07:11:56 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=31365#comment-698791 And then the wokescolds doxxed the **wrong** kid.

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