>>>https://forward.com/opinion/463295/the-jewish-space-laser-agency-responds-we-didnt-start-the-fire/
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>>>was (for me) one of the smartest ways to handle such utterings, which comes back to Naoto.Post.Irony
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>>I mean, somebody coming up with this crap space-laser could not be convinced anyway.
>>;)
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>ACK.
>but for me the target is not really the emperor wearing no clothes but the onlookers listening to the kid ;-)
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>I listened to a few of fox "news" stuff - if you do that with the expectation of listening to real news, it is much harder to pick out the falsehoods, rhethoric tricks and non sequiturs. Add to that quagmire the also existing trend of MSM to employ similar tricks, no wonder some cannot see the ocean for the waves (seems more dynamic / fitting than to always blame poor trees). Without conscious change of POV onlookers might be tempted to argue about the quality of the shrubbery - to throw some knights into the discussion and threaten tree with herring ;-)
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The story isn't that people are saying this stuff.
The story is that people are believing it.
If we are to believe polls, more than 50 million US citizens believe that Trump won the election.
That's scary but true. I know some of them personally.
That means that if you meet 7 people here, one or more of them is embracing a fantasy.
If not living in a fantasy world makes the rest of us "elite", I'm happy to wear that label but that's not going to make things OK.

There's a lot of stress here.
Millions of people lost everything in the collapse of 2006, and just as they were recovering, the pandemic caused an even greater economic collapse. I've been around since the great depression and I don't recall any time when the job market was socked so hard back to back.
There are a lot of angry people here.