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May 17, 2023·edited May 17, 2023

Taibbi’s entire worldview seems to be that social media companies should just let people lie with impunity and any attempt to correct the record is censorship. How is that attitude responsible journalism or good for democracy?

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This is not new it has gotten crazy. When the fake LSM repeats and not counter act these lies it seem true. Taibbi is a disgrace he use to be a real journalist now he trying to keep up with the liars and haters so he can be relevant.

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I saw that graph on some random account that also retweeted RFKJr. It didn’t have any attribution, but I’m not surprised that there’s a certain subset of tin foil hat wearing, toilet seat researchers that are so willing to believe the least believable stuff out there.

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Matt Taibbi is part of the Grift Industrial Complex. I am ashamed to admit that I used to watch his show, whose title, "Useful Idiots", turned out to be an unironic, accurate self-description.

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“gave one of the most consequential speeches in American history….”

Considering that the military industrial complex continued to grow and get more powerful in the immediate aftermath of that speech (and beyond) I’m struggling to see how it was ‘consequential’ never mind ‘the most consequential’ considering it seemed to have no consequences at all

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