• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    This article is ridiculous It looks like I need to start bookmarking sources to R-antics again for when his bs gets rugswept again and all the Republicans get on board.

    Fuuuu

    But it’s not just that one story. Vance has tried to claim he has a mountain of “evidence” that migrants are eating cats, dogs, and geese from local parks. And they all turn out to be garbage. NBC News talked with a woman in Springfield, Erika Lee, who was behind one of the Facebook posts that far-right influencers elevated online before Vance really kicked it into high gear. It turns out Lee’s post was based on something she’d heard from “an acquaintance of a friend” and that she had no first-hand knowledge of anything like that happening

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      I have a load of evidence, but also, I lied about this, and I’ll do it again!

      It’s journalistic malpractice, materially supporting fascism, and publishing actual Nazi-tier racist tropes to uncritically report Vance’s statements when he was so obviously lying, has unapologetically admitted he was lying, said he’d lie about this and similar racist bullshit again.

      The media is paving the way for an end to us democracy, and a series of genocides for fucking clicks. Fucking ghouls.

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      At this stage, there should be some democrat comedy TV program with guys in dumb and dumber tuxedos spouting the weirdest things about republicans. Things like the Trump signs in the front yard contain a camera and act as a 5G antenna.

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      So pull the thread. She heads if from a friend, let’s go ask the friend… and so forth. Someone unwilling to name their source is the origin. Let’s find patient 0.