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Craig Johnson's avatar

What a load of absolute bollocks.

Assume everything is a PSYOP.

OK.

A quick watch of the actual event would have told you at once that Closer to The Edge's post was an accurate report in the style of Hunter S. Thompson - I'm assuming you've both heard of and read him.

Now let's look at you.

What is your actual point here using Closer to the Edge's post? It's instantly checkable, verifiable very quickly and easily. What matters isn't anonymity nor citation but whether what is promulgated can be quickly verified as fact. If you haven't worked out how to fact check using various search engines or how to access peer reviewed articles etc then you really must.

Closer to the Edge reports on current affairs and events in a style which I enjoy. They're not written in any way to manipulate the reader given that the said events are usually all over the mainstream media anyway.

There is absolutely nothing exciting let alone 'Fantastical' about the post regarding Senator Merkley's questioning, you can watch it in its entirety on YouTube.

So, Michael, what is your point?

If you want us to have any credence in your mediocre ramblings, I would strongly suggest using an article that might indeed be fantastical and involve a degree of manipulation rather than one that doesn't.

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Charles Corbit's avatar

This is a really good post and I like the approach. I remember when I was much younger I was coming out of an alcoholic fog and getting sober and clean. As I was trying to figure out the world, I was reading everything from Ayn Rand to Karl Marx. I had a friend who was recruited by the CIA as an electronics wiz. He never revealed too much, but was working on surveillance. We got together one time and he saw a copy of the guardian, not the same guardian as today, but a much more left-leaning newspaper. It freaked him out.

I struggled with trying to figure out what was true as I knew all the messages from every angle were trying to hook me. Ultimately, I personally thought Rand was a heartless person and Marx was an idealist and his philosophy was perverted by so many regimes.

So now here I am today, at 60 years old, where I definitely lean more on the left. But what’s fascinating is that I am deeply involved in activism and recognize the limitations of motivating others through logical (logos) arguments, I try that as a basis but the path of passion (pathos) is more effective.

I try to limit my consumption of news and social media to maintain sanity and try to focus more on critical thinking, however, my wife and I were watching MSNBC although we know it was an echo chamber, jokingly she said it was like a warm hug!

Treating everything like a PSYOP is a great way to check myself.

Thank you

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