Not like I disagree, but how would you even go about proving that Trump is a liar and not just a fucking idiot? Like, I fully believe he is a liar, but if a paper wants to call him a liar they’d want proof that he knows what he says is untrue.
Then again, even if they had proof there’s a decent chance they wouldn’t call him a liar, because the need to maintain “civility” is far more important to them than almost anything else. Cut a liberal and all that.
The idea of civility, a mere whiff of an intellectual fart, is in fact more important to them than actual human lives.
This at the end of the day is what I mean when I insult a centrist by calling them a liberal.
It is an utterly hollow worldview built out of all the easy nice things that divides people by providing a corrupted, deeply incomplete vision of a better future and then collapsing it into cynicism, at which point the liberal throws up their hands and becomes a good little conservative (though they still might call describe themselves as on the left for decades).
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futatorius@lemm.ee · 42 pts · 1y
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 1y
Yet, the word "lie" has still not graced the pages of the NYT.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 1y
fuck the NYT honestly
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 1y
every traditional paper of record in this country has lost credibility
randomname01@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y
Not like I disagree, but how would you even go about proving that Trump is a liar and not just a fucking idiot? Like, I fully believe he is a liar, but if a paper wants to call him a liar they’d want proof that he knows what he says is untrue.
Then again, even if they had proof there’s a decent chance they wouldn’t call him a liar, because the need to maintain “civility” is far more important to them than almost anything else. Cut a liberal and all that.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
The idea of civility, a mere whiff of an intellectual fart, is in fact more important to them than actual human lives.
This at the end of the day is what I mean when I insult a centrist by calling them a liberal.
It is an utterly hollow worldview built out of all the easy nice things that divides people by providing a corrupted, deeply incomplete vision of a better future and then collapsing it into cynicism, at which point the liberal throws up their hands and becomes a good little conservative (though they still might call describe themselves as on the left for decades).
griff@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y
“All the spews—that’s fit to print!”
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
Sabata11792@ani.social · 5 pts · 1y
You see, the pollution is beyond the environment, it's not in the environment.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
It's a lie
Don't know what he said, but I know it's a lie, because that's all he ever does
snekerpimp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
“Trump says penguins are not real, unicorns can fly, and if you eat enough McDonald’s and drive a Tesla you will be immortal”
twinnie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
What’s the point in doing this and complaining that no one outside of American buys American cars?
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
The second part really wasn't needed, NYT, but thanks. Unless it's a standard now to add that to the end of anything he says.
Franklin@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
what, are you telling me that Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, lied? Stop the presses!