• Gork@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    If the truth doesn’t matter, and there is no accountability for those false beliefs, then people will start to act upon them.

    That sentence is far too coherent for Trump to actually say.

    I think it would be more like,

    “It’s FAKE NEWS, many people are telling me so, and yet you have people who believe it, the meatball Rons, the little Marcos, and they didn’t believe my ratings, best in the business, and they will lie to you that Trump didn’t do this or didn’t do that, but believe me, nobody can win like I can, you’ll see, it’ll be bigly”

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    10 months ago

    I am not sure why funny? The date is funny?

    “You can create the universe you want,” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who studies online harassment and extremism. “If the truth doesn’t matter, and there is no accountability for these false beliefs, then people will start to act on them.”