Right wingers haven’t cared about the truth for decades. It’s just now they don’t care whether we know it or not. Just think back to Trump’s first term and “alternate truths” and all that. They don’t care anymore. They believe what they want to believe, and no amount of facts or reasoning is going to change it.
But yes, everyone lies. Some people just more than others and some will lie to your face with a smirk on their face knowing damn well you know they’re lying.
since they repealed the Fairness Doctrine (not that it was perfect) in the late 80s when they realized that balanced reporting was one of the things that forced Nixon’s resignation
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Who is surprised? People are upset. The two are not the same reaction.
Ah yes, the notorious CA Border Control keeping visitors out. Make sure you bring your CA visa if you want to enter the state. 🙄
These people are fucking off the charts insane.
This stupid bitch has since deleted the tweet and gotten back to it like it’s another Tuesday. OSFM had to put out a statement correcting it. I hate people.
she deleted the original tweet, then reposted it again.
My bad, you’re right. I tried to check first, but I didn’t have the patience to scroll past her claiming America Is So Back because “Starbucks kicked homeless people out of bathrooms,” so I ended up not seeing the reposted tweet.
She lies, runs away from OSFM, gets community noted, and still, in the replies:
Um, this is 100% TRUE and WOKE Oregon seems to be covering for WOKE California. Leftists stick together.
There are many people whose work and ideas I deeply respect, but even in my weakest moments, I couldn’t possibly idolize them like this useless waste of oxygen does gargling on Trump’s ballsack every day.
Because I’m a horrible person, I can foresee that there’s zero chance I’ll die before doing something monumentally stupid. My greatest shame is realizing it probably won’t be as effective as what Luigi did.
I wish leftists stuck together as much as the right thinks we do.
I particularly like the truck/engine correction.
Like it’s stupid how easy it is to make up misinformation and disinformation, compared to how much effort it takes to refute it. Humanity is doomed.
I could just as easily say: “The Oregon fire department couldn’t get to the fires in time because they had been stopped by immigrant caravans, woke transgender hitchhikers and antifa mobs!!!”
It also spreads so much faster; I’ll always hear the lie from someone before I get the chance to look it up for myself, so I can’t refute it.
Oh god, don’t give the Directed Unethical Mass Blatherers Aiming Shit Streams Errantly Steadily any easy copy/paste material.
Gish Gallup
It’s not like there’s a state border check for vehicle emissions. You can visit California in a non-California car without an emissions check. Joy’s claim doesn’t make sense even before fact checking.
But dumbasses will eat that shit up
It’s meant to sow discord, not be fact checked or taken seriously by critically-minded people. It’s meant to rile up the MAGA’s.
Fascist agitprop
It makes sense to people who have never left their hometown, like most of her audience.
There is a border check entering CA but they only ask about fruits and vegetables.
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Wow it’s true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Border_Protection_Stations
I don’t think any other US state has checkpoints. This is a surprise to me.
Kentucky has them sometimes for horse papers
I choose to hold two images of this in my head and they’re both equally real, reality be damned.
They’re looking for horse rolling papers and they’re going to the trailer and asking each horse to show their papers as the driver is told to stand back and let them work.
California grows like 40% of the vegetables for the entire country. So they’re very protective of their agriculture.
There are. Especially for commercial vehicles:
A lot of states have checkpoints for vehicles towing boats. Need to check for invasive water creatures.
Imagine my surprise learning about them by pulling up to one. I don’t think it was even near the CA/OR, but like 50 miles into Cali on the interstate. All of a sudden I see an officer flagging me at a little booth, I figured it was an emergency ahead or maybe I ended up on a toll road? The first thing he says to me was something along the lines of ‘Got any fruit or vegetables in the vehicle?’ And I just respond ‘I’m sorry, what?’ He must get that a lot, he pretty much waved me through as he was explaining.
I brought a prepackaged fruit cup my next trip just to see what would happen but I ended up doing the coastal route and never got stopped going that way.
They’ve been a thing as long as I can remember
Florida has a checkpoint for plants and possible invasive species, definitely not for firetrucks helping people though.
Bugs trying to get in to Florida?
Florida has one of the best competitive scenes in the western hemisphere.
Sounds like it’s basically the same as CA then.
It’s the only other one. But Florida only has commercial vehicles pull in
Unlike California, Florida’s agriculture checkpoint only stops commercial vehicles.
And that’s rarely enforced, at least around here.
Welcome to modern society where facts don’t matter and all feelings are made up.
Made up feelings are facts now
Mila Joy fucks DONKEYS*.
Mila Joy is a HORSE FUCKER*.
Leave Xhitter while you can.
*It’s true, because lols
Twitter. It will always be Twitter
Nah fam… twitter dead.
Nah fam… twitter dead.
Nah fam… twitter dead.
Should be Shitter’s responsibility to fact check them but nope gotta make the folks in harm’s way handle it themselves apparently.
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.
Driving Californians (particularly the wealthy and well-connected Malibu celebrity class) insane with rage and paranoia, then pointing them at the milquetoast liberal stand-ins for Far-Left Radicalism, will do to California what it did to New York, Texas, and Florida.
Just a matter of time before the right-wing propaganda machine crushes the brains of the enfranchised class. I’m already hearing my mother-in-law blame the stupid Los Angelinos for raising her own home insurance rates. And more than a few coworkers are smugly insisting this is what a DEI fire department gets you.
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I know you’re joking, but let’s not do that.
That’s fair. Not everyone is good at Little League, after all. 😉
True true
Being a Republican allows you to be a smug.Asshole and call it politics
Its not the Republican-ism that comes first. You have to sell people on the “I’m exceptional” mentality first, then insist they’re being exploited by their inferiors. Malibu celebrities are a target rich environment for this kind of delusional elitism.
Expect a lot more Californians going on Joe Rogan and making up tall tales about how the fire was caused by poors and illegals stealing all the good firefighting water, while the state refused help for some arcane bureaucratic reasons related to The Fairness Doctrine.
Nevermind that there is a legitimate argument that deregulation made the fire as bad as it is.
Because one of the things deregulated in the LA area was the building of homes in high fire risk areas. like the ones currently on fire.
deregulation made the fire as bad as it is
The California water system is a dense web of legal contracts between public and private interests. Bad policy made the fires worse, as the central valley was transformed from an ecological paradise into a dried up scrubland. But the idea that California ever really had regulations to prevent these wildfires is naive.
one of the things deregulated in the LA area was the building of homes in high fire risk areas
Fires are running straight up to the Malibu coastline. High risk areas have been expanding with the repetitive droughts and the large agricultural developments of cash crops. You’ve got buildings going up in flames that were perfectly safe to live in 20 or 30 years ago.
Nothing the California state government had done up to this point was preventing the degradation of the local ecology. They’re just at the end of their rope.
Not of the ecology. Deregulation of building codes.
You’ve got buildings on fire that have been standing for half a century. The high winds and brush fires aren’t a result of the building codes. They’re the result of perennial drought and the accumulation of flammable materials in the dust-bowls surrounding LA County.
These articles are where I am basing my opinion from. Note that in the 2nd one, the fires originated in and are either in or on the border of state-designated high risk fire zones.
Everything the right says is a lie.
BuT iT fEeLs TrUe!
Fun feels-untrue fact: there are more trees on earth than stars in our galaxy.
Someone mentioned that on Twitter once and like 90% of the replies were calling them stupid
Bot? How do we know that isn’t just another of Elon’s alts?
I suppose somebody could check if she’s called him a good father recently…
Anyone politicizing the fires from the comfort of a place that isn’t burning to the ground, should immediately shut the fuck up.
Well apparently believing in climate change is political over here, and I don’t think it’s wrong to point to this as evidence that we need to make some serious changes.
They are inside the fire too, look at Mel Gibson’s interview practically WHILE his house was burning.
Personally I would go so far as to say that people politicizing the fires from a place that is burning to the ground should probably also immediately shut up and flee the building.
America does not care about truth. Worse, it actively discourages truth.
Lying is accepted. Making up facts that suit your narrative and shouting down anyone who disagrees gets you rewarded with the highest position of state.
We, the rest of the world, are just watching you guys in horror.
At Least half of us are basically watching in horror from inside.
At least - no, in that case it wouldn’t have happened. At most half. I’d say it’s way below half.
Less than 50% of voters voted Trump.
Voters who (to add to your point), don’t represent half the country, because 90 million out of 240 million voters didn’t vote at all. I think the number of non-voters went up a bit but not too far away from the average pres. election
I’m saying if at least half the population was horrified they’d have voted. The people that didn’t vote are apathetic. You can’t subtract people who voted for him from total and group them as against him
You can when there have been several news stories about groups who abstained or chose to vote 3rd party deeply regretting their choice.
It’s a post-truth world here in the US!
Makes sense. The Internet was the peak of the information age and usually with any cultural push their is the counter culture equivalent. When any truth could be found in seconds we now find ourselves where any opinion can be fed enough backing to feel like a truth.
America does not care about truth
Show me a country with social media and I’ll show you people who value making their political opponents ‘look like fools’ by lying.
Almost like that people don’t care about facts everywhere on the planet.
