Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 3: Try Hard with a Kengeance

[Steve Dore]

When did fillum become a synonym, or alternative spelling, for film? I must have missed it.

It's the phonetic spelling.

 

[El Zorro]

It's the phonetic spelling.

Is that a thing now?

 

[Steve Dore]

In Trump news, executive order for building of the wall set to be signed on Wednesday.

Does Trump realise that Mexico is not bound by Executive Orders signed by POTUS?
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/07/daily-chart-16


The economics of Donald Trump’s wall

Trump's $25 billion wall would be nearly impossible to build, according to architects

 

[edgie]

I feel sorry for the bloke if he has indeed been wronged, but there's no good reason for anyone to have two things clipped to their belt like the taxi driver in the Dumont case.


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[Dylan8]

Is that a thing now?

Millennial degenerates at it again

 

[tribey]

Does Trump realise that Mexico is not bound by Executive Orders signed by POTUS?
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The economics of Donald Trump’s wall

Trump's $25 billion wall would be nearly impossible to build, according to architects

Remember when, whatever your political leanings, the office of POTUS was a respected institution that was above the wild rumours, lies and conspiracy theories of whackjobs and loontubes?

Now the way is clear for freaks like Alex Jones and any moron with a strong social media profile to become a populist president.

All you have to do is talk endless easily refutable shit, decry any and all corrections as 'media bias' and promise to do a bunch of wild shit that is impossible to do.

Awesome.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Does Trump realise that Mexico is not bound by Executive Orders signed by POTUS?
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The economics of Donald Trump’s wall

Trump's $25 billion wall would be nearly impossible to build, according to architects

Didn't someone in the Obama admin say that the money for the wall had been allocated some time ago (before Trumpus Maximus was even a thing), and just hadn't been actioned?

 

[Steve Dore]

Is that a thing now?

u wot m8?

 

[Far Kern]

Does Trump realise that Mexico is not bound by Executive Orders signed by POTUS?
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The economics of Donald Trump’s wall

Trump's $25 billion wall would be nearly impossible to build, according to architects

I find this whole dishonest media, fake news, twitter posts, no interviews, no truth strategy incredibly disturbing. Ominous.

 

[Steve Dore]

Didn't someone in the Obama admin say that the money for the wall had been allocated some time ago (before Trumpus Maximus was even a thing), and just hadn't been actioned?

Are you confusing Trump's wall with the border fence?

 

[Doctor Feel]

I find this whole dishonest media, fake news, twitter posts, no interviews, no truth strategy incredibly disturbing. Ominous.

Basically the equation is simple.

Right wing - right wing source is truth and left wing is fake
Left wing - left wing source is truth and right wing is fake

The truth is probably somewhere in between, but we'll never get it.

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

So why is there no outrage when Mexico wants to build a wall on it's southern border?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Are you confusing Trump's wall with the border fence?

Maybe, **** knows.

 

[tribey]

Basically the equation is simple.

Right wing - right wing source is truth and left wing is fake
Left wing - left wing source is truth and right wing is fake

The truth is probably somewhere in between, but we'll never get it.

There's also a stark difference between bias and outright falsehood.

The outlets that Trump decries as 'fake news' may report evidential fact with a liberal bias, but that doesn't make the evidential fact wrong.

Someone subjectively editorialising with a liberal (or conservative) bias may be resoundingly ignored - or targeted with a bunch of angry tweets.

 

[Doctor Feel]

There's also a stark difference between bias and outright falsehood.

The outlets that Trump decries as 'fake news' may report evidential fact with a liberal bias, but that doesn't make the evidential fact wrong.

Someone subjectively editorialising with a liberal (or conservative) bias may be resoundingly ignored - or targeted with a bunch of angry tweets.

Man dies, Muslim man responsible (right) vs. Man dies (left)

Same outcome, different reporting style, one to push an agenda while reporting the fact. The other combating the agenda of the other by reporting slightly differently. So I see what you are saying.

The article written by the right would have people asking "why does it matter if he's muslim, you may get innocent muslims targetted by doing this." while the other would get attacked for "protecting muslims".

When really, the central point is a man died.

 

[Dylan8]

Basically the equation is simple.

Right wing - right wing source is truth and left wing is fake
Left wing - left wing source is truth and right wing is fake

The truth is probably somewhere in between, but we'll never get it.

This is the most superficial, meaningless analysis yet from the Portaloo

 

[Far Kern]

Basically the equation is simple.

Right wing - right wing source is truth and left wing is fake
Left wing - left wing source is truth and right wing is fake

The truth is probably somewhere in between, but we'll never get it.

It's not that. Part of the reason we're in this position is that they're all bastards.

The conditions seem to exist, and to be being created, for something incredibly nasty.

 

[Doctor Feel]

This is the most superficial, meaningless analysis yet from the Portaloo

It really isn't. This is the black and white of how many (who knows how many) see it. A leftist resource is immediately discredited by a right voter, and a right resource is discredited by the left. It doesn't make either party correct or truthful in either case but that's the way it often is.

 

[Doctor Feel]

It's not that. Part of the reason we're in this position is that they're all bastards.

The conditions seem to exist, and to be being created, for something incredibly nasty.

That's the thing right. All outlets will push or word something to support an agenda (either loosely or entirely based on a central fact) and this drives wedges up groups more than ever before since there are so many outlets these days including the bizarre alternative news sources such as alex jones for example who just don't use facts at all but report them as such by using generalizations and cherry picking.

 

[Doctor Feel]

...then there are the crowd that will read a headline and form an opinion based on it without reading the content of the article, they're the best.

 

[Lagooner]

I love it when the Portaloo gets political.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I love it when the Portaloo gets political.

lol don't worry, I for one am done taking a poo in the portaloo. I'm about to switch off from Trumponomics and knock off work and get ready to head to the houseboat for the next week.

inb4 replies refuting my opinions and i'm like:

 

[JimmyBeerCans]

...then there are the crowd that will read a headline and form an opinion based on it without reading the content of the article, they're the best.

The vast majority of the voting public

 

[_VXV]

I'm not homophobic, I love gays I just hate it when they shove it down my throat.

 

[Doctor Feel]