Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)

Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by xxpor on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:54PM (#25720417)

On the other hand, there appears to be a "skeptical" strain of discourse now that is just as arrogant, but in the other direction. As in, I disagree with the mainstream cultural view on a topic, so I therefore have the correct view on it.

This is best exemplified by someone like Michael Tracy or Glenn Greenwald IMO.

In my view they're more wrong than right, but they do have the occasional nugget where they do see through the BS. However, the mainstream view is correct more often than not. Additionally, a significant proportion of their takes are in bad faith.

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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by mrfusion on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:59PM (#25720467)

I think you have something there. There’s certainly a phase when you stop trusting the mainstream where you overdo it and think everything is wrong.

The goal should probably be a balance. And probably realizing that nobody including the government or media deserves your blind trust.

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Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012) by xxpor on Sunday January 10, 2021 @08:19PM (#25722911)

I agree. They certainly have a valuable role to play. But if you play with fire like that, you can't get mad when twitter viciously dunks on you for being stupid.

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