Gang,
I am stumped, and hope someone here can address this. I'm honestly not casting any aspersions... I just want to figure out the process through which some questionable stuff, knowingly created, finds its way here.
How do two seemingly-long-time board members post with the exact same image, conveying the exact same (already addressed & answered) misconception, at the exact same time here?
https://greatawakening.win/p/12hRj5WYyt/the-state-of-the-state-of-the-un/ https://greatawakening.win/p/12hRj5WI44/holy-shirt-boys-and-girls--i-tho/c/
Questions get asked, and answered, and re-asked, and re-answered here all the time. It's a little tiresome, and could definitely be largely remedied by an improved Search function that did more than just search New Post titles, but it is what it is. And, upon searching the Internet for "why is joe biden's state of the union speech listed as unofficial", I've discovered that this answer isn't readily available to the casual searcher. So I have no problem with this underlying question. So much weird stuff in DC, and it's great when we can collective answer some of it. ?
My real questions are:
- How would two different people end up with same image, and the same misconception, and be compelled to post it at the same time?
- What's the source of this stuff? Is there some mailing list, twitter feed, Telegramph thingy that folks belong to, which knowingly pumps this out and that well-meaning folks then breathlessly bring here?
If there is an external source that is creating material (yes, it's just a screenshot with "Unofficial" highlighted, but it logically had to have been created by someone other than the two posters) to spread distracting disinfo... that's really not a trustworthy source to be following.
This certainly isn't the first time I've seen this phenomenon, of disinfo-perpetuating images showing up hear near-simultaneously. It's just the first time I've bothered to ask. (And yes, I directly asked the two OPs where this image came from... I just haven't heard back from either yet. And neither cited the source of the marked-up screenshot image in their posts.)
No worries here about specific relevance!
I'm extremely protective of New Posts. So glad the mods have cleaned it up for the most part.
But I'm, paradoxically, 100% in support of tangential comment threads. Because comment tangents are where the magic happens, as far as I'm concerned! So tangent away!
And I very much like your comment, and will add that posters here don't regularly, and shouldn't, get jumped on for posting differing opinions, as long as they are genuine and well reasoned. But pass should never be given to those who it can reasonable be determined are posting here for disingenuous reasons; if the suspicion was unfounded, the poster should be able to back up his ideas and opinions with no problem. Zero harm, great learning experience for all. But most often, it's truly not very tough to spot an obvious shill, and it's great fun to toy with them prior to deportation.