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>We should be aware of current events

I have come to the conclusion that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion.

For example you say "fascism in America", and I wonder is this guy for real? Fascism? If this was true how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or not locked up?

So imagine if you were running a new outlet. All of your readers will unquestioningly accept your flawed narrative! And imagine there are multiple of such flawed/biased news outlets.

There is no way to know the truth. This is painfully clear when you read stuff in the news that you have first hand knowledge about...There is some name to the fallacy of why people still believe in news despite that...

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If there’s no way to know the truth, how do you know you’ve come to the right conclusion?

What conclusion? I am talking about not having any conclusions at all.

> *I have come to the conclusion* that there is no way a layman understand the truth about current events. So it is best to not at all be aware of any current events as reported by the media or popular opinion.

That is a conclusion that is arrived over course over long time and many experiences/thought. It is not a news or blog article I read once and made me conclude it.

Have you considered that maybe most of the posters on this website weren't born yesterday and have also spent a lifetime absorbing facts from many sources and experiences?

In fact most people have, in some way.

Most of the posters in this website are teenagers or in their early twenties. Let’s not be delusional here, this is still the internet.

There may have been a time when most people on the Internet were in their teens and early twenties, but I don't think that has been true for a long time.

I think it's still the case, especially during summer. People get busy and less interested in online bs once they graduate high school or college. I've noticed, someone mentions their age here and it skews younger pretty often.

I don't believe you've made a case here.

But what is your point? Can't one come to a world view that is vastly different from his contemporaries?

I think he means the conclusion you were talking about when you said "I have come to the conclusion..."

You concluded that America is not fascist.

I did not. I meant that even in the news, there is nothing to substantiate such a point of view.

Then you clearly think it is not.

ie null finding versus negative finding

Neither are a positive finding.

So you don't know whether America is fascist or not? Because you clearly presented it as if you believe America is not fascist.

You replied to the wrong person.

Is not instant. But if trump stays in power he’d pack the courts(not that he listens to the courts anyway), put people in power that would just do what he says and he would start locking people up the instant he could. It certainly is a slow walk to fasicism

> how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or not locked up

I think you'll find that some of them actually are locked up, and a few of them are dead.

So it can't be fascism or be close it it until we have fully operational death camps?

Fascism is a way overused term. Personally I tend to avoid it unless we're seeing paramilitary forces shooting civilians in the face. Other people may have lower thresholds.

What about shooting them in the chest while they drive their car? Or shooting them in the back after they’ve been detained?

No further explanations should be necessary.

Did you know Hitler was the president of Germany for about ten years before he started the holocaust?

Was he a fascist during that time?

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