(12-29-2019 06:19 PM)RiceLad15 Wrote: The issue you’re ignoring is that there are authors that are known to edit content or present falsehoods as fact - when you do that enough, you’re not a trustworthy source and should not be trusted to relay facts.
Should all sources be weighted the same? Because I don’t think taking Alex Jones’ opinions seriously is expanding anyone’s knowledge.
Who's Alex Jones?
But both you and Tanq have good points. Everybody is presenting an opinion, and some of those opinions are not trustworthy. I think the big difference is that some of the ones you find trustworthy, I don't, and vice-versa.
For example, Adam Schiff has told us "the evidence is in plain sight right there on the table" and that Trump asked the leader of the Ukraine to "make up dirt". Yet his opinion still carries weight with certain factions. Maybe with you. Not with me - I know he is a biased liar. He is pursuing impeachment as a means of polishing his own political image. JMHO.
Now if I told you I heard that from Alex Jones's blog, or program, or office, whoever he is, would it change the facts that Schiff is a liar? What if I heard it from CNN? Still a liar.
Some very suspicious things have been happening since Trump got in the race for the Republican nomination in 2016, and more since he won the election. But if I ignored all the sources the left says are untrustworthy, I would be just another sheep believing everything Schiff, Nadler, Tlaib, Clinton, Pelosi et al say. I would have believed that Trump was a Russian puppet and all the other BS that has been bandied about as fact by some. I would have believed Kavanaugh was a rapist. But I used my brain and saw that the accusations were ridiculous, and now I watch as the antiTrumpers look for something, anything, to get him out before the 2020 election, because the people might just vote him in again.
It's political and one side is playing dirty. The left side, to be clear.