Inconvienient facts aren't Capital F "Facts" though, they're disinformation. It's a binary, it either supports their worldview (and is therefore a Fact) or it doesn't (and is therefore disinformation).
And they smugly love to tell us how misinformed we are because we try to understand all the relevant information, not just the parts that we already agree with.
The only big right-wing account I know of at Bluesky is Tom Nichols. He has 22k followers because he's an anti-Trump guy who has appeared on MSNBC. Despite having a surprisingly large number of followers at a lib site - I was amused to see that he also has ~1,500 people blocking him. Libs can find him to be very tedious because his "my way or the highway" POV is different from their own.
I knew Bluesky would be liberal. But I have to admit that I didn't think it would be a lib playground where a lot of people would be as bad as the "We're right - YOU ARE WRONG" hivemind redditor mindset of r/politics. Even liberal intellectuals like Adam Serwer say stuff that makes me laugh.
Barack Obama presided over the largest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Johnson.
Inconvienient facts aren't Capital F "Facts" though, they're disinformation. It's a binary, it either supports their worldview (and is therefore a Fact) or it doesn't (and is therefore disinformation).
And they smugly love to tell us how misinformed we are because we try to understand all the relevant information, not just the parts that we already agree with.
The only big right-wing account I know of at Bluesky is Tom Nichols. He has 22k followers because he's an anti-Trump guy who has appeared on MSNBC. Despite having a surprisingly large number of followers at a lib site - I was amused to see that he also has ~1,500 people blocking him. Libs can find him to be very tedious because his "my way or the highway" POV is different from their own.
I knew Bluesky would be liberal. But I have to admit that I didn't think it would be a lib playground where a lot of people would be as bad as the "We're right - YOU ARE WRONG" hivemind redditor mindset of r/politics. Even liberal intellectuals like Adam Serwer say stuff that makes me laugh.
In that thread he also acts as a Biden apologist on abortion as he always does. Sad.
Deep down they know there is no such thing as true objectivity, but it's a wonderful cudgel to keep "progressive" Dems in line.