• IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1141·
    3 months ago

    We’re in a post-truth world. The corporate media have normalized candidates that just stand there and tell lie after lie with little pushback.

    I don’t know how, or if it’s even possible, to get back to the days when lying assholes got treated like lying assholes.

    • 5oap10116@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 months ago

      Headline:

      Trump ponders if we should nuke a hurricane. [Insert literally anyone else’s name here] thinks that’s probably a bad idea bUT iS iT?

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      151·
      3 months ago

      I refuse to believe it’s “post”-truth. It’s a truth recession.

      We have more overt fact-checking. if that trend continues, it can help push back on the patent falsehoods.

      I’ll debate the goals and methods of one party vs another, and I’ll accept that one of them will have really bad ideas. Fact check the lies so they have to support their points on facts, that is, and I’ll accept it.

      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        We have more overt fact-checking. if that trend continues, it can help push back on the patent falsehoods.

        We don’t though. Fact checking after the debate is of limited use. If you don’t confront a lie the second it’s told, the liar will rapidly go on to tell more lies and you end up with a Gish gallop of bullshit which is what we saw from Vance and Trump. They got away with it. A fact checking article on NPR the morning after does very little.