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JD Vance refuses to accept the fake fact check and calls out the moderators on it so they shut his mic. Incredible (twitter.com)
posted 1 year ago by SophiesBoyfriend 1 year ago by SophiesBoyfriend +157 / -0
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– jvardrake 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

They do it because it works.

Look at how this one is playing out:

People who are already hardcore in either the left or right camps aren't going to be swayed to change their vote no matter what. Thus, the only votes that are up for grabs are the largely disinterested masses in the middle.

The people in the middle aren't the sorts of people that are going to sit down and watch a debate, much less the Vice Presidential debate. They aren't the sorts of people that are going to go investigate what actually happened. All they are going to hear about this is what they might bumble into in a 10 second clip from the media, what they might happen upon in some front page reddit sub, etc. When that happens, who is going to be the one that was in charge of writing that narrative, and what will it be?

Oh, stuff like this:

  • "Trying to get away with lying during a national debate"
  • D Vance: "The rules were you guys weren't going to fact check"
  • "The rules were that you guys weren't going to factcheck"
  • CBS cuts mics after Vance accuses moderators of unfairly fact-checking
  • At debate, Vance whines: You weren’t supposed to fact check me!
  • Imagine being so scared of being Fact Checked that you make it a condition for a debate.

and this:

  • Opinion: CBS News gives JD Vance license to lie at VP debate. What are we doing here? Facts are for losers, and fact-checking makes Republicans in general, and Donald Trump in particular, SUPER mad.
  • Fact-check fight: CBS News cuts candidates’ mics after JD Vance objects to a moderator’s correction
  • At debate, Vance whines: You weren’t supposed to fact-check me!
  • CBS Sought the Middle Ground on Fact-Checking. Vance Jumped Into the Gap. - The New York Times

And on, and on, and on.

The point is the same as always. The right has almost zero power to reach anyone not already on the right. The left has near total control over what the idiotic/disinterested masses in the middle stumble into during the business of going about their day. Thus - once again, the same as always - the left does whatever it wants to generate something - anything - that allows them to spin up a bunch of clips, articles, whatever that they can blast the public with, and hopefully set the narrative, and what is the narrative that these people will happen upon? "JD Vance was upset that he lied, and they wouldn't let him get away with it!!!"

It doesn't matter if Vance was right. It doesn't matter that the leftist moderators broke the rules they agreed to. None of the people in the middle (or, more accurately, I guess, - a far greater portion of the people in the middle) are going to hear that. They're only going to hear how the left spun it. That's why they do it. The left has the ability to have a constant dark cloud hanging over anyone not in their camp.

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– DistilledLife 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Oh, stuff like this:

Reddit is a strong example of why you don't always take the time to look at how your enemies talk, with r/Politics being one of the biggest progressive Marxist cancer centers on the Internet. Some are so unhinged that looking only a few sentences of their line-of-thought is enough to shut a critically-thinking brain down.

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– jvardrake 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

It’s still a front page r/popular sub. Even if the disinterested masses don’t take the time to actually read the article/comments, millions of those people scroll past it, see the ridiculous headline, and have the narrative colored by it.

Blasting the world with endless propaganda has an effect.

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