Here’s how we deal with blatant GOP hypocrisy. Don’t share the post, screenshot it and explain the purpose of deception.
“McConnell is now trying to change discourse around majority rule in the Senate to slow legislation after years of gleefully steamrolling the minority.”
“McConnell is now trying to change discourse around majority rule in the Senate to slow legislation after years of gleefully steamrolling the minority.”
Sharing the post gives the liar impressions, fries their reach, possibly even helps the lie trend.
Refuting the lie and providing context takes out the venom and might even help people who don’t know what’s happening understand the situation.
Refuting the lie and providing context takes out the venom and might even help people who don’t know what’s happening understand the situation.
We have to start rethinking social media, messaging, and our relationship with this poison. Bad faith Right Wing messaging has an effect, as does sharing op-eds and articles by major outlets designed explicitly to outrage the Left and profit off their hate-sharing.
Obviously Twitter is a place for conversations, but it’s also a messaging machine and just continuing to use it in the same way that helped give rise to Trump is a non-starter. We have to get better.
Here’s another:
“Rubio has one move and that’s pretending to be a ‘good’ Republican above the fascists, but then using the threat of the fascists to push his agenda and frame reform or progress as dangerous because it might radicalize the fascists.”
“Rubio has one move and that’s pretending to be a ‘good’ Republican above the fascists, but then using the threat of the fascists to push his agenda and frame reform or progress as dangerous because it might radicalize the fascists.”
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