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Originally Posted by B.Barnato
Excellent summary!
What surprises me is the blind trust of some people regarding their government. Call it patriotism or blanking out discrepancies out of sheer ignorance.
One would think just noticing the dishonesty in basic business, that we all either take part in or get to witness, with relatively little at stake would tip some people off.
Why would anything be different all the way to the top of the power structure?
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What surprises me is all these porn guys trusting and believing the stories of a government that has lied to us relentlessly for decades.
They lied in saying 2257 was to protect children.
They lied in saying .xxx was to protect children.
Obama got saddled with all the defence and intelligence liars from the Bush regime; people like Donald Rumsfeld lied about invading Cambodia in the 70s, then lied about WMDs, then lied about the vast cave complex bin Laden kept in Afghanistan. Rumsfeld also lied about the nerve-gas sold to his buddy Saddam Hussein to decimate the Kurds.
Now all these porn guys are backing the same two-faced scumbags when it comes to bin Laden and Al Qaeda when they're even saying they have no proof, or keep changing the story... "Just Trust Us".
It's just emotional knee-jerk reactionism; just like the Tea Party, just like the fundamentalist Christians and Muslims, their instilled belief that bin Laden is the devil cannot be unseated.
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Originally Posted by ThatOtherGuy
But what choice have we got?
Do not believe anything a government says?
Believe some of it?
Just believe the parts you think make sense to you?
Espouse your opinion as fact to carry out you're own version of events?
Whats to say nothing you read in the news is true, all news is false?
Rather than be paranoid about events that have no baring on you as a person it might be healthier to just simply take what ever news as irrelevant. As most of it does not pertain to you in anyway shape or form.
The result less stress, less arguments with others that have a different opinion or ultimatley may be even misguided. It's like sports even though you are not playing nor even betting for some reason you take a side and for some reason it has relevance to your life by some demented view in thinking the outcome has some baring on you as a person. Fact is... It has none.
So when someone says another guy is dead that you never knew...
Is it really your business at all?
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Actually, I first approach anything I see on mainstream media/news as lies or spin or general bullshit.
Who wins the World Cup in soccer has no bearing on my life; but when I pay more for shipping, or a loaf of fucking bread for my kids, because oil prices go up and it's because the US said Afghanistan is where we have to hunt the bad guys, because they said bin Laden blew up the WTC, then it is my business - and your business.
Trillions of dollars on these two stupid wars for oil. On the false basis that this is where bin Laden was, that Iraq had WMDs - turned out to be wrong across the board.
But your cousin's aunt's brother's father's son whatever is dead in Iraq. Why? Country's going broke, wants to cut unemployment, social security, programs that pay for themselves - why?? For bullshit excuses to go to wars that don't get results, raise unemployment, public debt, provoke more insurgent attacks, and actually raise the price of the apples at the grocer's because the truck they were on starts costing more per gallon per mile to get there?
How can you say it doesn't affect you?