On the pro-Trump internet, they're on Day 3 of "Anthony Fauci kills puppies." It's inescapable.

[Nevilledog]

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Ben Collins
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A lot of people are shocked by this speech. That's a great example of how bifurcated social media has become in the last six months.

On the pro-Trump internet, they're on Day 3 of "Anthony Fauci kills puppies." It's inescapable. He's the new Soros/Hillary, an omnipotent villain.
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Aaron Rupar
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Madison Cawthorn, having a normal one
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3:31 PM · Oct 26, 2021

[IcyPeas]

1. Trump offspring kill elephants and leopards..... for fun (I won't post the picture)

[keithbvadu2]

2. Would that commission also investigate how Trump ignored COVID for so long?

Would that commission also investigate how Trump ignored COVID for so long?

[brooklynite]

3. "It's not escapable"?

I haven’t come across it. Guess I escaped?

[Nevilledog]

4. I'm guessing you don't hang out on right wing social media.

[Walleye]

5. Cawthorn,That's Dr. Fauci to you, ya little prick

[Haggard Celine]

6. Who cares what those degenerates think,

or what passes for thinking in their case. The world is upside down and inside out with them. People who are drawn to that sewage-as-news are going to believe whatever those types put in front of them, whether it's that Fauci is Mengele or ivermectin is the cure for all that ails you. They're hopeless. All we can do is make sure the truth gets out there so the uninfected can know what is really going on.

[Walleye]

7. Absolutely correct. It's frustrating and exhausting

[Tommy Carcetti]

9. It's not that simple.

People putting bullshit on social media and passing it off as news, and inevitably there will be someone who doesn’t closely follow the news or politics and they’ll just accept it as truth without any fact check.

It’s extremely destructive.

So yes, I do care what they think, and tell others to think.

[Nevilledog]

11. Ditto

[Haggard Celine]

12. But there's nothing much you can do about it.

Facebook has started pulling some content that is untrue, but there are plenty of other places other than Facebook where these idiots congregate and swap stories. And Facebook certainly doesn't manage to pull all of the bullshit people post there. All any of us can do is read and post the truth where we can. It doesn't really do any good to get all upset over every piece of filth that gets posted on every godforsaken corner of the internet. Time spent reacting to this shit is time we could spend moving on to real news and issues. Don't waste time reacting, that's their goal, to make us feel we have to respond to every lie they tell, so by the time we get around to disputing it, they've dropped another pile of bullshit.

[Tommy Carcetti]

13. If I see that shit, I fact check it.

Not for the benefit of the OP, because chances are he or she won’t give a shit.

I fact check for the benefit of any casual follower who might otherwise take the false story for face value.

[Haggard Celine]

14. They don't believe in facts, at least what we would call facts,

verifiable truth. They believe people like Alex Jones and Joe Rogan and they don't trust any fact checkers who tell them the truth about what these guys are telling them. So while it's admirable that you take the time to educate, your replies are falling on deaf ears. They believe what they want to believe, and they don't want to believe you.

[Tommy Carcetti]

15. You still aren't getting it.

I’m not posting the fact check for the poster. I’m posting the fact check for the reader.

There are a lot of people who only casually follow the news and are more susceptible to disinformation.

You leave it unchecked, you are conceding to the disinformation.

If you post a fact check, there’s at least a chance the reader doesn’t get sucked in.

[Haggard Celine]

16. There might be some who read these posts who are

on the fence and looking for information. In their case, your fact checks might be useful. But what I'm saying is that your fact checks don't have any effect on some of these readers. There is a certain type of 'news' that these people are drawn to. They're looking for sensational stories, the more outlandish the better. They aren't looking for stories that are objectively true, they want a strange tale.

It's hard to describe how these people think because it's so different from what we've seen in the past, where people used statistics and other data to prove their points in rational arguments. The Trumpers and their ilk want to feel like they're better than the educated because of their own feelings of inadequacy, so they gravitate toward stories that cast educated people and Democrats as not just wrong, but evil.

Most people believe things that have factual bases, but the Trumpers believe what makes them feel better. They have brought the sort of belief required for religiosity into their politics, so that their belief is untouched by any claims of irrationality or untruth. These people are not swayed by fact checks. They believe or disbelieve sories according to whether they fit their preconceived notions and their need to have convoluted explanations for events.

So I guess your fact checks might have some limited influence over readers, the people who need to hear the truth the most have already made up their minds about the story. So they believe the story if they like it and facts never figure into the equation.

[CatWoman]

17. someone posted a thread earlier saying how pissed he was at Dr. Fauci

for experimenting on puppies.

It has since been deleted.

[nolabear]

8. Wonder how many of them vaccinate their dogs for rabies...

Since they’re bloody determined to excoriate him for research conducted on dogs and the horrors of vaccines, do you suppose they know how rabies vaccines were created and will they now object to being fined if their dogs aren’t vaccinated against it?

[Saboburns]

10. They share a hivemind so they never have to think.

They crave being told what to think.

They have a need to be told what to say.

They are compelled to act like one another.

Creative and independent thought is jarring and painful for them.