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Of the many horrible things about having a Trump presidency, one of the worst is that any issue that he brings up can no longer be seriously discussed in certain circles.
Trump knows the best lies are based on the truth, so he called the news fake at a time when many people were just starting to realize that there was a problem. His supporters ate it up and the rest of us can no longer have a serious conversation about it.
Rational, free-thinking opponents of Trump style politics need to stop acting like many of his lies aren't based on a grain of truth. Sometimes the orange clown is going mention real issues.
There should be no debate about whether there is an issue with news media, only how bad an issue it is and how do we fix it when the First Amendment explicitly declares a free press.
The current for-profit news system is tearing our nation apart for money. This is a huge and highly polarizing issue. Frankly I am not at all sure that there is a good fix for it as things stand, but that doesn't mean that we should pretend it doesn't exist and that anyone that mentions it is a secret fascist.
It seems somewhat intentional. The anti-vaxx thing was so dumb that it made it impossible to discuss real problems with vaccines, for instance. I’m not any sort of vaccine conspiracy believer. I got 3 Pfizers. However I felt very sick after the 2nd and 3rd… 101.5 fever for 2-3 days, which is a lot as my normal temp is 97. After the 3rd one I didn’t really feel normal for 3-4 weeks if ever and my heart rate somehow went up from always being 60-70 to 90-130 (??). But if I tell doctors or most anyone this, they assume I’m some vaccine conspiracist, which makes no sense considering I willingly got 3 of them, but in any event, they don’t take it even remotely seriously because so many people were so vocally dumb about it.