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craycray-wolf · 3 months

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So.

I wanna make a bunch of Omori fan content, especially for post-game stuff which I wish to explore when @ask-spirit-mari has reached the true ending segment of the game!

I'd like to share many of my ideas! Sunny is my boy so they're mostly related to him haha. I'd be happy to answer any questions though!

General Sunny headcanons:

My version of Sunny is a Universally Loved one.

His birth name is Taiyo, and Mari was the one who gave him his nickname at a young age. It's stuck since.

Sunny is actually a very emotionally expressive person and his emotions are just stunted in the game because y'know. Trauma.

He doesn't mind speaking, it's just that his natural state of being is quiet.

My boy Snuuy is an absolute bi disaster lmao

Post-game Sunny headcanons:

He eventually comes across the aspiring musician Michael, and both parties are happy to have a familiar face in the city.

He ends up volunteering at the animal shelter, and through his time bonds with a cat which he adopts. I'm still working on details about said cat BUT IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT IT EXISTS TRUST ME

He grows his hair out some and starts experimenting with it a bit.

Snuuy is an absolute sweats and hoodies man and you cannot take this away from me. No seriously he is legit the type to love sweatpants and hoodies

He likes to explore the city and get out if the house. Not only does it feel good to him to finally be out and about, but deep down he's very afraid that he'll coop back up.

Sunny meets lots of new people! Especially in school, where he eventually ends up with his own ragtag friend group. I'm working on details about the ragtag group as well but I wish to establish it's existence.

Via the pooling of many resources, both Sunny and Basil get therapy because holy crap these kids need it, please help my babies 😭 I think it'd be especially beneficial for Snuuy as he's actively working on himself at the end of the game. The rest of the Faraway eventually get help as well, they just prioritized the kids fighting a whole lotta SOMETHINGs.

Basil made Sunny an eyepatch with a white tulip design embroidered (Gma taught him) on it, and the latter happily wears it everyday.

I'm a shipper of Sunkissed, so I like to imagine that happens later on when the characters are adults!

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baiyubai · 1 year

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Post Truth (2022) / 保你平安

#bai yu #post truth

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baiyu-universe · 1 year

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Feng Qiangqiang is so handsome

#sweetie #so when will the prequel movie start filming #bai yu #白宇 #post truth #feng qiangqiang

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his-catness-tchalla · 1 year

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YIN ZHENG as TONY

保你平安 POST TRUTH (2022)

#Post Truth #保你平安 #Yin Zheng #chineseartistsinc #chinesemedia #my gifs

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pissanddie · 5 months

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Sara Bezovšek & Dorijan Šiško, What’s Your Truth, 2023. Videogame, installation

#post truth #fake news #conspiracy theories #Metaphysical relativism

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blogarteplus · 7 months

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Desde Blog Christian Paiz:

Opinión del libro 'POSVERDAD' escrito por Lee McIntyre.

[ Acceder ]

#posverdad #post-verdad #post truth #Lee McIntyre #posmodernismo #posmodernidad #verdad #Sesgo cognitivo #Verdad objetiva #hechos #ciencia #filosofía #pensamientos #sociedad

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bonzogalactico · 4 months

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Reality is so flexible these days, it's hard to tell who's disconnected from it and who isn't.

Richard K. Morgan

Altered Carbon, 2002

#cyberpunk books #cyberpunk #book quote #book excerpt #richard morgan #reality #post truth

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pauloleodrakon · 1 year

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Future by Paulo Leodrákon

In the future we will have robots

That will do the legwork

And in some cases

the intellectual aswell

Leaving us with just:

the leisure,

the sport,

the arts and

the other areas where machines are dismissed

However,

in our future,

it is reserved for us:

the unemployment,

the fanaticism,

the authoritarianism and

the hypocrisy

A beautiful result of an algorithm;

of an institutional opacity;

of a messianic political polarity;

of unquestioned half-truths;

a flawed educational system and

perhaps from a lack of ability to

accept one's mistakes and to forgive

At present we have that

redemption is a privilege;

every crime is relative/non-existent;

all punishment is just;

your opponent is less than human;

every person is unique;

everyone is predictable and

We went beyond the truth.

By doing this

the factual truth

turns into a cratic truth,

in other words,

power matters more than the fact itself

Therefore, truth is the property of the one with the most power

(This power coming from anywhere

And obtained by any means necessary)

If in our era all people have the truth

Rules supreme the one that wins any clash

I see a warlike future on the horizon

For post-truth is what comes before barbarism

See the poem in my native language and in the original format on my IG: @paulo_leodrakon_

#brazilian artist #BRart #original poem #poems on tumblr #artists on tumblr #brazilian poetry #post truth #social criticism

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

August 3, 2022

Heather Cox Richardson

I have spent the day rereading the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the news of the day has heightened its relevance.

During the Trump administration, after an extensive investigation, the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election…by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin.”

But that effort was not just about the election. It was “part of a broader, sophisticated, and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society…a vastly more complex and strategic assault on the United States than was initially understood…the latest installment in an increasingly brazen interference by the Kremlin on the citizens and democratic institutions of the United States.” It was “a sustained campaign of information warfare against the United States aimed at influencing how this nation’s citizens think about themselves, their government, and their fellow Americans.”

That effort is not limited to foreign nationals. This week, Alex Jones, a purveyor of conspiracy theories and false information on his InfoWars network—the tagline is “There’s a War on For Your Mind!”—is part of a civil trial to determine damages in his defamation of the parents of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre in which 26 people, 20 of them small children, were murdered.

Jones claimed that the massacre wasn’t real, and his listeners harassed the grieving families. A number of families sued him. In the case currently in the news, Jones refused for years to comply with orders to hand over documents and evidence, so finally, in September, District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble of Travis County, Texas, issued a default judgment holding him responsible for all damages. Since the judge has repeatedly had to reprimand Jones for lying under oath during this trial, it seems that Jones intended simply to continue spinning a false story of his finances, his business practices, and his actions.

The construction of a world based on lies is a key component of authoritarians’ takeover of democratic societies. George Orwell’s 1984 explored a world in which those in power use language to replace reality, shaping the past and people’s daily experiences to cement their control. They are constantly reconstructing the past to justify their actions in the present. In Orwell’s dystopian fantasy, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite history for the Ministry of Truth to reflect the changing interests of a mysterious cult leader, Big Brother, who wants power for its own sake and enforces loyalty through The Party’s propaganda and destruction of those who do not conform.

Political philosopher Hannah Arendt went further, saying that the lies of an authoritarian were designed not to persuade people, but to organize them into a mass movement. Followers would “believe everything and nothing,” Arendt wrote, “think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.” “The ideal subject” for such a dictator, Arendt wrote, was not those who were committed to an ideology, but rather “people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction…and the distinction between true and false…no longer exist.”

It has been a source of frustration to those eager to return our public debates to ones rooted in reality that lies that have built a certain right-wing personality cannot be punctured because of the constant sowing of confusion around them. Part of why the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has been so effective is that it has carefully built a story out of verifiable facts. Because House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) withdrew the pro-Trump Republicans from the committee, we have not had to deal with the muddying of the water by people like Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), who specializes in bullying and hectoring to get sound bites that later turn up in on right-wing channels in a narrative that mischaracterizes what actually happened.

But today something happened that makes puncturing the bubble of disinformation personal. In the damages trial, the lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents, Mark Bankston, revealed that Jones’s attorney accidentally shared a digital copy of two years’ worth of the texts and emails on Jones’s phone and, when alerted to the error, didn’t declare it privileged. Thus Bankston is reviewing the material and has said that Jones lied under oath. This material includes both texts and financial reports that Jones apparently said didn’t exist.

This is a big deal for the trial, of course—perjury is a crime—and it is a bigger deal for those who have believed InfoWars, since it reveals how profitable the lies have been. Bankston revealed that for all of Jones’s claims of low income, in 2018 InfoWars made between $100,000 and $200,000 a day, and some days they made $800,000. But there is more. People calculating the math will note that if indeed there are two years of records on that phone, the messages will include the weeks around the events of January 6, 2021.

Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng of Rolling Stone report that the January 6th committee will request the text messages and emails, which should cover the period around January 6. Jones, who has already spoken with the committee, played a role in the events of that day, whipping up supporters and speaking at a rally on January 5. He is also close to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, who appeared often on Jones’s InfoWars show and provided Jones’s security. When he testified before the committee, Jones invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times.

The January 6 insurrection relied on the Big Lie that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election, a lie that has dramatically destabilized our country. Republicans have only deepened their commitment to that lie since January 6. After yesterday’s Republican primaries, in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, all key states for 2024, election deniers have clinched the Republican nomination for secretary of state—the person in charge of elections—or the governor who would appoint that officer.

In Arizona, Republican candidate for governor Kari Lake claimed there was fraud in her election, without evidence and even before the votes had been counted. “I’m gonna go supernova radioactive,” she told supporters. “We’re not gonna let them steal an election.” (Lake’s election is still unresolved as ballots are being counted.)

If indeed Jones’s phone turns out to have key texts that go to the January 6 committee, it might provide more facts that will help to diminish the Big Lie. Tonight another piece of information about that lie came from Maggie Haberman and Luke Broadwater, who reported in the New York Times that John Eastman, the lawyer who produced the memo explaining the plan to have then–vice president Mike Pence overturn the 2020 presidential election, told Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani that they must continue to fight even after January 6, suggesting they contest Georgia’s election of Jon Ossoff and the Reverend Raphael Warnock to the Senate in the hope that those races might yield the evidence of voter fraud that until then they hadn’t found. “A lot of us have now staked our reputations on the claims of election fraud, and this would be a way to gather proof,” he wrote.

Eastman also asked Giuliani to help him collect a $270,000 fee from the Trump campaign for his work on overturning the election, and he implied that the effort could be ongoing.

Way back in 2004, an advisor to President George W. Bush told journalist Ron Suskind that people like Suskind were in “the reality-based community”: they believed people could find solutions based on their observations and careful study of discernible reality. But, the aide continued, such a worldview was obsolete. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore…. We are an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

I wonder if reality is starting to reassert itself.

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emptywheel @emptywheelThis explains how the Sandy Hook team got Alex Jones' phone. Also here is what happened with Alex Jones’s cell phone, according to Mark Bankston: the phone’s contents were put in a Dropbox folder the two parties had been to using to exchange materials roughly ten days ago

dan solomon @dansolomon

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August 3rd 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/gop-election-deniers-trump-arizona-michigan.html

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/gop-candidates-just-cant-stop-lying-about-elections-even-when-theyre-winning

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08/03/alex-jones-sandy-hook-phone/

The Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the United States Senate on Russian Active Measures, Campaigns, and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volume 2: Russia’s Use of Social Media, pp. 3-12.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alex-jones-cell-phone-jan6-committee-subpoeana-1392270/

Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVanceAlex Jones took the 5th more than 100 times when he testified in front of the January 6 Cmte. Imagines what's in his text messages, which are likely to land in the hands of committee investigators & DOJ promptly.

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August 3rd 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/politics/john-eastman-trump-election-fraud.html

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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[from comments] Herb Klinker (FL and Umbria)

The well has been poisoned, and once this happens, it is a monumental task to exhort the toxin.

Today we live in a post truth world, where the Alex Joneses can and will attempt to create an alternative reality. Have you tried using facts and evidence to convince those who believe in the Big Lie that it doesn’t exist? Good luck with that.

“All the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

And remember the words of fifty years ago from Pogo:

“We have met the enemy and he is us.”

Smart little possum.

#Heather Cox Richardson #Letters From An American #post truth #lies #propaganda #Soviet misinformation #The big lie #russian interference

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 8 months

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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:

15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)

1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.

None of the hijackers were from Iraq.

None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.

None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.

#9/11 #serious post #not a shitpost #this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks #politics #this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it #i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed #because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes.#and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries #we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government #but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation!#a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!!#a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support #so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*???#well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains #and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel #truth is irrelevant #worse: to the people in charge #truth is a HINDRANCE #'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase #facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations

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mitchfynde · 8 days

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Like i'm a Leftist and even i'm dumbfounded by some of the hills they're dying on. They're acting like the world is based on black and white morality and justice is an uncomplicated concept. Sympathy for Palestine? Absolutely. Supporting Yemeni Pirates? What the hell? Biden's policy sucks? Sure. Dont vote for him knowing full well the alternative? Are you crazy? We live in the real world with a two party system. Either they get that or they dont. It sucks. But gotta make the best of it.

We are in a post-truth world. Every year, that just seems to get worse. It may be one of the worst problems facing our world right now.

People are not born as truth-seekers. They never were. Truth, to us, is mostly based on social groups. Fitting in. That's why so many of us went from questioning mainstream feminist narratives into an insane personality cult surrounding Donald Trump. The alt-right pipeline is a pipeline only because of the friendly Nazi welcoming you to their warped little world.

We all want to be right, of course. The aesthetic of truth is deeply important to us. For that, we have confirmation bias. And in our post-truth world, you can ALWAYS find a "source" that's telling you exactly what you want to hear: your preconception is correct and you are a special little guy who just knows shit magically.

Who the fuck wants to be Genocide Joe? It's not even humiliating, it's just terrifying. Imagine your nickname is one of the worst atrocities mankind has dreamed up so far. Forget voting for you, someone may want to fucking kill you. That's how you so easily get uncritical support of all things Palestinian. Even Hamas, even the Houthis. Why not? They're against genocide... or at least the aesthetic of it.

We're stupid little animals, man. Are we the smartest ones ever conceived that we're aware of? Certainly. But we have a long way to go before we transcend these most basic, embarrassing, downright pathetic issues that our species is plagued by.

And if you think this is negative, remember we're only talking about truth! Homelessness... man, world hunger?! Holy shit.

When you win a match in Helldivers 2 [stay with me here], the announcer will often remark "Today you carved another foothold on the long climb to liberty." That's where we come in. If you are even trying to be a truth-seeker at all... if you even just try to be aware of your biases... it's a foothold. And it ripples out to the others, as much as it may not seem so in the now.

Rant over. I'm sorry for subjecting you to this, anon. I hope you're making the best of things.

#post truth #confirmation bias #genocide joe #truth #palestine #asks #inbox #rant

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milixin · 22 days

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E: I don’t know that I’ve ever seen it be the case that apologizing — whether the person did something or did not do something — helps. Because what apologizing seems to me to do now is it gives people the license to believe that it was all justified in the first place.

That’s why there’s a crazed power to people like Donald Trump, who exist in a world without, I think, personal shame. Because they don’t apologize, they’re able to keep the instability of the different realities coherent: I never lost the election. I never did anything wrong. I never did any of it.

So there never needs to be a moment where the people who are on their side have to reconcile the sort of admission of wrongdoing. Whereas the people who try to come out and be decent people about it suffer.

S: Shamelessness is the great public weapon of our time. If you really have it — and yes, of course, he does in spades — you can do what he’s done, which is to spend a lifetime getting away with it. I mean, not just since he’s been in politics, but way before then. I mean, getting away with it is his great skill.

And the tool that he uses is absolute lack of shame. And I mean, I would put, in a miniature way, ex-British prime minister Boris Johnson in the same bag. Absolute, I mean, total liar in everything he says and does and totally shameless about it and gets away with it. Until he didn’t.

E: We live in this age where you have an algorithmic global community. And communities discipline through shaming each other and eliciting shame in each other. That’s a supercharged dynamic in modern life. So if you happen to be immune to it, it’s a superpower.

S: This is maybe a function of being almost 77 years old, but I really go less and less toward social media. I barely use it, and every time I go there, I kind of wish I hadn’t. So I think maybe I’ll just, whatever years are left to me, manage to do it without being a part of the modern world.

—— Ezra Klein interview with Salman Rushdie in The Ezra Klein Show: Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is

… lately thinking through shadow selves, pride, shame, and being in world so distant from what is real and true.

#ezra klein #podcast #shame #post truth #politics

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grompf3 · 1 month

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"l'extrême droite ment"... Alors laissons lui le monopole du mensonge !

Petit exemple de mensonge décomplexé.

C'est le post d'un honorable twittos qui a attiré mon attention là-dessus :

Pour être tout à fait franc je ne suis pas certain de la véracité de cette info, mais ils nous mentent tellement sur tout que même si c’est fake, ça m’amuse de le laisser. D’autant plus qu’ils en sont tout à fait capables. Et je les emmerde.

Donc, on a une fausse capture écran d'un tweet que BFMTV n'a jamais publié. Et on a un gros compte d'extrême-droite, avec presque 95'000 abonnés, qui reprend cette fausse capture écran, en la commentant, comme si c'était vrai.

Et qui rajoute derrière un truc du genre "c'est peut-être pas vrai, mais je m'en fous, ça pourrait l'être".

Remarquez le procédé qui consiste ici à fabriquer une info mensongère que l'on attribue à d'autres, ici les médias, pour ensuite les accuser de mentir...

...Et pour justifier, à demi-mot son propre mensonge, il rajoute ensuite :"Ils nous mentent tellement"...

Et l'honorable twittos qui voit passer ce bullshit résume la chose fort justement :

Je balance une désinformation, je le sais, mais comme elle me plaît je vais la faire tourner, histoire qu'elle se diffuse. Bref l'extrême droite ment.

Oui.

L'extrême droite ment.

Mais...

...j'ai une proposition.

Et si on décidait de laisser le monopole du mensonge à l'extrême-droite ?

Parce que toutes ces stratégies utilisées par l'extrême droite pour mentir de manière décomplexée, on connaît.

Mais est-ce qu'il n'y a que l'extrême-droite qui joue au sale petit jeu du "'c'est peut-être faux mais c'est pas grave" ?

Non.

Des formules tout aussi connes que le coup du "alternative facts" de Kellyane Conway, j'en vois passer plein chez des gens qui prétendent défendre de belles et nobles causes.

Et je me dis que dans le débat public aujourd'hui, si vraiment quelqu'un se sent obligé de mentir pour défendre sa position, c'est peut-être que sa position ne mérite pas d'être défendue...

Je suis un militant.

À ma manière.

Je participe à un combat politique.

Je milite pour que, dans le débat public, chacun se soucie de véracité.

Pour que nous ne sombrions pas dans une société de post-vérité généralisée.

Pour que les belles et nobles causes à défendre ne soient pas souillées par des mensonges et du bullshit.

Pour que l'opposition entre vérité et mensonge ne devienne pas un enjeu secondaire, une sorte de luxe encombrant, dont on n'aurait pas trop à se soucier du moment que l'on serait soi-même dans le "bon camp".

D'ailleurs, si vous tolérez le mensonge, du moment qu'il vienne du "bon camp", qu'il soit au service de "nobles causes", et peu importe les dénominations et les excuses que vous collerez sur ce mensonge...

...Quelle place laissez-vous à la remise en cause, au questionnement ?

Face à des faits qui pourraient amener une remise en cause, un questionnement, n'allez-vous pas être tentés de simplement inventer des "faits alternatifs" pour occulter le problème ?

...

Laissons donc le mensonge et le bullshit à l'extrême-droite, à celles et ceux qui défendent l'indéfendable.

#désinformation #post truth #information #factchecking

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