Comments on: Conspiracies, “Truthers”, and the Post-Truth Era https://mikesouth.com/https-mikesouth-com/conspiracies-truthers-and-the-post-truth-era-14333/ The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 By: MikeSouth https://mikesouth.com/https-mikesouth-com/conspiracies-truthers-and-the-post-truth-era-14333/#comment-30839 Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:00:49 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=14333#comment-30839 Karma…that is sooooo true. Tim makes a very good observation, we were on IM while he was writing this and I expressed thoughts on it to him because it struck a chord with me.

I have always believed in questioning authority but now in America questioning authority is epidemic and you have to ask yourself why?

its symptomatic of a larger issue here because nobody trusts the government or the media
and truth is why should they
the government has spent the last 40 yrs thinking of ways to usurp our constitutional rights, the war on drugs, the patriot act, fisa courts, the war on terror, no knock warrants, the list is long. Every one has taken a way a little or a lot more freedom people should be skeptical….and pissed.

When authority instills the need to question authority into the populace that should be a sign that the authorities are doing it wrong.

]]> By: Karmafan https://mikesouth.com/https-mikesouth-com/conspiracies-truthers-and-the-post-truth-era-14333/#comment-30838 Tue, 20 Dec 2016 16:23:14 +0000 http://www.mikesouth.com/?p=14333#comment-30838 You see a similar thing with commercials. How are the American people supposed to make proper buying decisions when all the commercials are full of lies and smoke and mirrors to sell products? Companies don’t have to be truthful. They can say whatever they want and no one holds them accountable.

Take media companies like Comcast, Verizon, Sprint, etc… All of them claim to be #1 and the highest customer satisfaction or coverage area with no dropped calls. How can they all be #1?

Or auto companies that claim to have the most leg room or space and the people all getting into the vehicles are all 5′ tall and weigh 100 lbs? Anyone ever get a Whopper or Big Mac that looks like the one in the ads? I know I never have…

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