Investing massive amounts of care and interest in to fake characters and products controlled by rich strangers was really stupid
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Well, it was an hour long talk total and because I like to archive things, I had the actual videos on my phone and articles all bookmarked — because as you no doubt know, people constantly call those of us who don't follow mainstream dogma liars, conspiracy theorists and other such nonsense. That's probably what did it more than anything.
At one point he said, "We should go back to the time when journalists weren't allowed to lie! Then there wouldn't be a problem with misinformation."
When I turned and said, "Ok, I can see how you'd think that, but let me ask you this: if we did that, who would be the ones to determine what the truth is?"
Then he sat there for several seconds unable to answer before saying, "Well, the truth is the truth."
To which I said, "But if we make that law as you said, someone would have to make that determination. We saw what happened when they made that determination with Hunter's laptop before the election."
We had just talked about the laptop and I had showed him videos of Hunter smoking crack, the e-mails I had saved, and censored pictures that no one should want to see.
All he responded with was, "If we can't trust them, then who can we trust? I've always thought they would tell the truth about stuff like this because it gets big ratings."
I told him, "You can only trust yourself and what you can absolutely verify 100%. You have to take the time to follow a story to its source just like a journalist would. They don't care about ratings because they get more money from the favors they receive from those in power because these people own more than just media companies."
During our conversation we went through almost every huge mainstream hoax you could imagine. One after another I had almost all the information saved to show him.
The funniest one was probably the "Trump never denounced white supremacy" one. I pulled up that video that's like 9 minutes straight of him repeatedly denouncing it over and over and he was blown away that he had never saw any of it.
He was a nice guy. I just felt bad for how much blind faith he put into the TV and then like telling a kid Santa doesn't exist, taking that from him.
That's the fundamental problem, the need to place trust in someone else
That's exactly what I said more-or-less.
You should upload/post your archive somewhere so other people can see and share this stuff.
I for one would love to use it similar to how you have here.