I had the misfortune of running into a leftist analysis on Rich Men North of Richmond today. the thing that made me stop watching was when he said
in the next lyric, we can clearly see where this guy gets his news
gets his news
It made me think about my conversations with both leftists and Qtards alike, where they constantly talk about how news source x is unreliable and news source y is the one that tells the truth.
Anyone who is here from GamerGate knows that news sources are unreliable as fuck, as well as being highly prone to lies by omission and otherwise pushing an agenda. this is been true from CNN, to Fox News, to Zero Hedge, to Breitbart, to MSNBC, to any other online blogging rag.
This a world where if someone is simply "getting their news" from somewhere, they do not have the whole truth and are likely in a complete bubble.
One should not be "getting their news", one should be hunting the news and hunting the truth. anything less means you are just believing what someone else wants you to believe.
/rant
if it makes you feel any better I'm in the same boat except more extreme where I've got normies who don't even realise that they're full on leftists. They always deny it but I've grown up in one of those infamous middle class leftist families that are so left wing in the most left wing part of the country they don't know how left wing they are. If they started hanging out with anti-communist Chinese or Cuban-Americans it would probably seem like a different world to them.
They know I'm 'right wing' by their standards I guess when it comes to stuff like freedom of speech but I keep my mouth shut about my more detailed knowledge. Seriously though, how am I supposed to explain that part of my sources of information are often chatting to ex-military types on Gab/Minds and wargaming with other autists about what's going to happen next?
I sort of red pilled but slipped up at the same time when I was talking to the martial arts normies I know explaining to them the whole Wagner Group thing was probably an op and it's made me realise if I kept talking like that they wouldn't think I was just a conspiracy theorist they'd probably think I'd work for the government in some capacity lol so I'm keeping my mouth shut again and they're the more reasonable sort and I explained this is why I don't talk much. They don't realise how much information is available online if you know where you look. It's not as if I'm amazingly skilled or anything either, half the time I just rant about shit and people approach me to have a chat because I'm going in autistic levels of detail about it all.