It started when she crushed him at their debate and the polls did nothing, maybe even got a smidge redder. That in and of itself should have been enough to convince them that debates don't matter much!

Because 1) They don't know either and 2) They think anything they don't know isn't important

Might be the most menacing trailer for a PG film I've ever seen.

I don’t think we’re any dumber now than we ever were! We used to be slightly more sheepish about it and we’re not anymore, that’s the only real difference.

Feels more like a treating-the-symptom-not-the-disease sort of thing, but I agree that it’s not completely without value.

One of the ways I see this ultimately playing out is that the news media becomes in large part owned by internet providers and gets subsidized into the cost people pay to get online.

it ends up the far-right absolutely understands the concept that not every service need be profit-generating if it provides a vital enough service that it should be propped up at a financial loss- but they selective believe that's not true of the government and is true of Tim Pool and Breitbart.

Only slightly less unhinged than the woman who said that violence against fictional characters is a form of abuse perpetrated by writers.

People believe what they want to believe. Why they specifically want to believe *this* is beyond me, but they do.

Murdoch's New York Post is one of if not the biggest driver of the 'crime is out of control in New York' narrative.