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that raises even more questions... (lemmynsfw.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Biden’s admin normalized lying about obvious things and denying reality for four years.

As much as I revile the man for his squandering of historic opportunity, this wasn't normalized by Biden's administration.

Credibility gap is a term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration's statements and policies on the Vietnam War. It was used in journalism as a euphemism for recognized lies told to the public by politicians. Today, it is used more generally to describe almost any "gap" between an actual situation and what politicians and government agencies say about it.

This isn't a novelty, it's a problem that has plagued democratic political systems for ages. The incentives to lie to the public increase as the inherent popularity of your policies wane.

It’s like yelling at a toddler to stay away from a skunk and they just fucking won’t…

You're telling a toddler to stay away from a skunk after the toddler has ingested a thousand hours of "Skunky! The Loveable Critter That Wants To Be Your Friend" The propaganda flowing counter to common sense is enormous. Every source of media is just stuffed with advertisements - explicit and implicit - attempting to manipulate the perceptions of the public.

You almost can't blame folks who buy into InfoWars and DrudgeReport when CNN and the NYT and even NPR getting bloated with corporate think tank crapola.

We tried to fucking warn you.

Everyone is warning everyone.

Don't own a gun. Don't not own a gun. Don't cross the border. Don't be homeless or become unemployed. Don't bother going to college because AI is taking over. Don't eat Avocado Toast or you'll go bankrupt. Don't take the bus or the train or you'll be mugged. Don't drive the wrong type of car or you'll get in a crash and die. Don't buy Nikes because they've gone Woke. Don't vote for Mamdani, he's part of Islamic Jihad. Don't trust any news source but FOX. Don't read any paper but the NYT. Don't read any books but the Bible and Harry Potter.

Otherwise, all the poverty and misery and violence you've been watching on the news will land squarely on your head and we'll all know you deserved it.