Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Josquius]

[Syt]

They're clearly in the "anger" stage of dealing with the election results.

(the fraud allegations would count as "denial", I suppose?)

[Syt]

P.S.:

[11B4V]

Sorry, not when you're spouting batshit crazy stuff.

[merithyn]

Oh the irony is hilarious  Wow.

That's what I don't get. See, I can understand (not approve) two kind of trumpists:

a) The FUCK YOU LIBERALS crowd.
b) The "Trump is a disgusting human but it gives me 6 conservative justices and loads of conservative federal judges" crowd.

But this "Trump is a good man that cares for the country and others" malarkey? Who's *that* delusional to actually believe that?

My aunt

[mongers]

Some good examples of a lack of critical thinking in this article :

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/covid-liverpool-britain-inequality-poorer-regions

"The internet, that unreliable friend, has slid into this vacuum. "I just read that 25,000 people die every year from the flu, and we don't have a lockdown for that, do we?", said an irritable man to his wife in the coffee shop queue just after 9am on Monday, idly watching two slightly younger, even more irritable men start fighting outside. "Where did you see that?," she responded. "I dunno, some fella on the internet."

Returning with my kids from a half-term trip into the centre of town last week, the taxi driver informed us of Donald Trump's efforts to "do something about those child traffickers". I asked where he'd heard about this, recognising the reference as a QAnon trope. "I saw this video on YouTube. I mean, you can love him or hate him, but he gets the job done. We could do with some of that over here.""

I think we can all shelve our critical thinking at times; the concern is that many, perhaps a majority, have no real way of exerting critical thinking as they wade through a morass of garbage on the internet.

[The Larch]

Oh the irony is hilarious  Wow.

That's what I don't get. See, I can understand (not approve) two kind of trumpists:

a) The FUCK YOU LIBERALS crowd.
b) The "Trump is a disgusting human but it gives me 6 conservative justices and loads of conservative federal judges" crowd.

But this "Trump is a good man that cares for the country and others" malarkey? Who's *that* delusional to actually believe that?

Isn't the basis for QAnon that Trump is fighting a secret war against evil pedophile celebrities? If you're deluded enough to believe that, believing the cartoon is a much lower bar.

[Josquius]

[Syt]

[Valmy]

I mean a few thousand did.

But tens of millions voted for Biden. So there is that.

[merithyn]

Um... I don't think that's in the US.

EDIT:
Yes, yes it is.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-win-leads-street-protests-across-u-s-n681906

mea culpa

[PDH]

Hell yeah, there was a great wailing and gnashing of teeth in Santa Cruz after the 2016 election.  The students knew.

[Syt]

[The Minsky Moment]

Thanks Dr. Phil but I think we've had enough dumping on the Trump family for now.

[Barrister]

I gotta give props to the meme-maker: Dr. Phil did actually say this. 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/02/05/get-a-damn-job-dr-phil-has-plenty-to-say-when-megyn-kelly-asks-him-about-entitlement-culture-in-america

Of course what does that say about social media that both Meri and I just assumed that the meme in question was probably false.