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AOC is going to her email list to ask them to petition Facebook and Twitter to take down posts correctly stating she wasn't in the Capitol building at the time of the riots? https://mobile.twitter.com/Fiorella_im/status/1357184339289669632
Who knew that people clamoring against "misinformation" and "disinformation" were just trying to...control the flow of information so it benefits them?
This is like the left's version of yelling fake news at everything except they want to actually censor the fake news
Everything in politics has gotten too personal, politicians have too much ego to back down because they think (understandably) people will not give them the space to and mock them, belittle them. No one can blame her for being scared on Jan. 6 but she doesn't have to mislead.
Just say "it was a harrowing event for me I was scared but maybe Ted Cruz did not try to murder me?"
Instead there is a ratcheting up of temperature because she can't do the right thing and not accuse all of her political opponents of the worst crimes imaginable. You have to rise above this stuff, not compare Ted Cruz to a sexual assaulter. OK you're scared. OK, lead?
I will at least admit the humor of Brian Kemp being falsely accused of stealing elections by both sides and Ted Cruz being falsely accused of murdering people by both sides https://twitter.com/Truth360/status/1357192352859832323
Along this line at some point a Republican is going to accuse Mitt Romney of not paying any taxes.
If social media was a bigger thing around this time, Clinton would never have backed down from this. She would have said she was speaking her truth, and that nobody should be able to question her experiences. https://www.chicagotribune.com/chinews-mtblog-2008-03-clintons_landing_under_sniper-story.html
An echo chamber of her fanbase would've repeated it via motivated reasoning -- it doesn't matter what's true, it's who is saying it -- and there's another universe that doesn't buy it, but it doesn't really matter. Not enough trust for the two sides to agree on truth.
I mean Trump did this for four years, I think a lot of his supporters, certainly people I know didn't particularly care if he was being untruthful, he was being untruthful in a direction that benefited them politically, so who cares? This is the political environment.
Yeah I recall at one point Trump saying something like if they can do it to me, they can do it to you. People start to develop this kind of relationship with politicians so they then have a hard time putting distance between themselves and the lawmaker. https://twitter.com/KepaOnawadt/status/1357207622047391744
I agree right now conservatives correctly feel under siege as they basically have no institution in U.S. However, prior to a few years ago, people with AOC-type politics were basically nonexistent in the Democratic Party. She gave a lot of young ppl hope https://twitter.com/JPMGGA/status/1357210919743361025
So I understand the attachment in both cases but I think people should recognize politicians are still politicians, they're not always going to be truthful or accurate. You can still like them or even vote for them and acknowledge they're wrong about something.
She offered a very compelling explanation for motivated reasoning early on actually: https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1082068489597267968
It's a real way of thinking for people who work in politics: OK, what I'm saying is not exactly true. But what matters more, accuracy, or achieving my goals? If you think your goals are so morally profound, why would you care about being accurate?
