Thread by @myndmaven

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden What you saw was sensationalized looped video on Fox, Newsmax, etc., and an endless firehose of coverage of the worst of it from Conservative websites

So this hits on the reason I think ppl like you are loons (or have some kind of mental deficiency or whatever)
You tell me 1/

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden About 97% of the world agrees on what constitutes facts and reality - all the newspapers of record around the world (wiki newspapers of record - NYT, WSJ, WaPo, London Times, Le Monde, Sydney Herald, The Globe and Mail, etc)... /2

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden ...the major US newspapers (Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, etc), the big 3 networks (NBC, etc), NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS (and yes) CNN and MSNBC (agree they sensationalize)... /3

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden all the major universities and gov't institutions across 1st world countries, etc., etc
Bottom line, if you turn to any of these sources of information, they will all independently tell you the same facts, and if they get something wrong, they will prominently retract /4

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden The outlier: Conservative media
Not all Con media - Christian Science Monitor, American Spectator, Nat'l Review, etc - they don't drink the Kool-Aid /5

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden But major outlets (Fox, Newsmax, OAN), MAGA GOP politicians, fringe web outlets (Daily Caller, Breitbart, Townhall), Conservative radio (those that mimic Limbaugh), conspiracy podcasters, nutjobs like Alex Jones, etc. /6

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden They all paint a completely diff view of reality, w/diff facts, spread outright lies, twist context into something ridiculous, gin up endless social wars & bigotry of all flavors, and do everything they can to make you hate and be outraged against anyone anywhere to your Left /7

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden The result is, I can tell someone like you, who lives in this Conservative media reality, that you're being lied to, that you're being misinformed (brainwashed if you will), and that you have your facts wrong, that Trump is a pathological liar, etc /8

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden I can use unimpeachable evidence from unimpeachable sources to prove it
But you will never, ever, ever believe anything you doesn't fit the Con media narrative, or that you simply don't want to be true /9

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden So, questions: Why? Why are people like you unreachable by what the bulk of the entire rest of the free world agrees are unarguable facts? /10

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden Why do you believe in conspiracies for which there is no evidence or have been outright disproven? -- The election was stolen, Ilhan Omar married her brother, Seth Rich, Hillary is a baby eating pedo, the Deep State is actually a thing that exists... /11

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden ...Biden (who won't run again) is trying to seize pwr, QAnon, Uranium 1, Libs want to outlaw religion and capitalism in favor of Communism, Obama Birther, everything George Soros, mass shootings are staged, millions of illegals voted, Dems and Jews want to "replace you", etc. /12

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden Oh, and my very personal favorite: Man-made Climate Change is a hoax!!
I mean, it doesn't even matter to you all that Shell Oil and Exxon say it's real. /13

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden Do you think the bulk of the rest of the world is just gullible and stupid? Alex Jones and the journalists at Fox have uncovered truths that the entire rest of the global press has missed? That all the non-Con media outlets across the globe are in cahoots with the Libs... /14

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden ...brainwashing us to believe a fantasy reality? That the universities and our "deep state" controlled government institutions are in on it? That we're out to get you!!? /15

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden I think there are at least four types living in the Con bubble:
1-Those that know it's all horseshit, but hate minorities / LGBTQ / Muslims / etc (bigots) or Libs so much they adopt and champion it /16

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden 2-Ppl who so desperately want the narrative to be true (for whatever reason) they're simply incapable allow themselves to ever question it
3-Those that know it's BS, but live in a social culture that would disown them if they said so /17

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden 4-Plainly stupid and gullible people that have been brainwashed
5-Conspiracy or other loons
6-Ppl who were born into it, and have never experienced another culture /18

@DriverCory1 @mkolken @JoeBiden Suspect I can guess your response, but I'd still be interested to hear.
If nothing else, I've been wanting to start getting these thoughts written out.
Anyway, no hard feelings, at least from me.
Best of luck. Cheers /end