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No. I unfriended people because I got sick of reading conspiracy theories like Sandy Hook was a government conspiracy to take away guns, that Obama was a secret gay Muslim, that Michelle Obama was really a man and that their children weren't really theirs.

Let's not forget the investigation by Chuck Norris that the government was secretly trying to declare martial law in Texas, "proof" of a 6000 year old Earth, and that Noah's ark was found.

And then news that people are using welfare to by weed in Colorado and that parts of Minnesota are under Sharia law....

If "sticking my head in the sand" means ignoring the looneys on the right that believe everything they read, guilty as charged.

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Sounds less like an issue with a particular side, but more an issue with the people you are friends with.

And for every one of those you have a 'Dem' spreading nonsense about vaccines causing autism and about how GMOs will mutate you.

While the media might make it look like it does no side has a particular monopoly on stupid.

hold up, I agree with you but you can't say "for every X there's Y" because that's not at all true. "it happens on both sides" is a far cry from "both sides do this about the same amount" not to mention "both" itself implies there are only two sides and everything is flat.

How often does the mainstream conservative media go out of its way to debunk the idiocy on the right? The guy that started the "news" that people are using welfare money to by weed was actually trying to pull a prank on the right and see who would fall for it. Not only was there an uproar on the right. Fox News even reporter it.

The myth that vaccines lead to autism is repeatedly debunked by the mainstream media and they report all of the time about places where diseases on the rise because of anti-vaxxers

And while I use to think that nothing getting done in America without the support of big business was a bug. I'm starting to think it's a feature. For instance, once big business broke away from the religious right on issues like gay rights, the "moral majority" didn't have a say in the matter.

I expect the same thing to happen when it comes to immigration, trade, and the demonizing of "other". Trump supporters may have the numbers but they don't have the money.

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