• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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        News ought to be a regulated word, if you put it on your show or paper or anything, anywhere, it means you can’t knowingly lie.

        Politicians ought to be held to that same requirement, you aren’t allowed to knowingly lie.

        You want your full first amendment rights (to lie and deceive) back? Stop being a politician or a “news” person.

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          4 months ago

          You are so right about this. A lot of times knowledge like that is provable. Why the fuck isn’t this a thing?

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          Probably only something will happen when those lying are themselves blasted with so much lies that something needs to happen. It would require something like Russians propaganda machine to insinuate each republican politician had gay sex.

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        4 months ago

        If only. We knew lots of folks that died after refusing Covid vaccination. They’d been told batshit crazy stuff by the media they took to be gospel.

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      I’m afraid they are irredeemable. I tried for a couple of years to get them to see the good but they have been that way for a long time. I just smile, love them because they are super old, and vote against them any chance I get