Fact checkers have no credentials and exist to squash dissent

“Fact Checkers” don’t actually have any real credentials at all. Think about it.

“Fact Checkers” are there to try to sway people’s *opinions* toward a specified narrative.

That specified narrative may be mostly right or mostly wrong, but the Fact Checkers typically try to guide people toward an *incorrect* but approved narrative.

And the Fact Checker is there to literally squash dissent against the annointed Holy Narrative That Has Been Approved.

On the other hand, actually fact checking the fact checkers can be amusing.

Cognitive Dissonance can ensue …

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Tom's notes 2

  1. Tom Kirkmanreplying to Daniel Ness

    accurate.

  2. Tom Kirkman

    Daniel Gruenberg, fact checkers can get pretty uppity sometimes.

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