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What do the fascists get out of saying the truth? Shouldn’t they be cheering on the war machine? My conservative family is sharing this vid around and I’m very confused on what to do. Why can’t it be socialists and communists who get millions of views by talking like this?

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    My favorite deboonker site is Politifact. After Biden's BBB bill was so stone-cold dead that even everybody on MSNBC was calling it dead - Politifact refused to use that word. Anything involving BBB was described as "stalled" or the topic had articles that were 1,000s of words long "explaining" everything with half-truths and lies.

    • Weedian [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      this one takes the cake for me

      https://checkyourfact.com/2019/12/24/fact-check-633000-homeless-million-vacant-homes/

      An image shared on Facebook claims that there are more than 633,000 homeless people and more than 13.9 million vacant homes in America.

      Verdict: False

      The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau.

      • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Today I learned that more than 17 million is actually not more than 13.9 million.

        Thanks, internet!

    • electerrific [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I gave up on that site in 2016 when the links were being shared. I read one article about Hillary Clinton and it sounded like it had been written by her attorney. All evasion and "you can't prove that in court" and other obvious bullshit tactics. Conclusion: false.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Politifact was partisan from the beginning, but seeing Snopes do the same bullshit killed the last shred of optimism I had for the Internet in 2016ish