Coming To Terms

MAYBE I SHOULD STOP getting my news from Facebook. I get most of it from NPR, which I love and trust, and a bit of network and local TV news. Who knows what to believe? Trump really did say that windmills cause cancer, correct? He said: "They say windmills cause cancer". That's what he said, right? The usual vague, generic "they".... Who are they? I live in my own little Facebook bubble, like most people seem to. A progressive community, no conservatives, some religious content, but not overwhelmed with it. I would have a hard time staying in a conservative discussion group, and in fact tried to and couldn't, with a group of my high school classmates, years ago. The headlines on Facebook are great, but can they be believed? One said: "Pentagon tells White House to stop politicizing the military". It was referring, presumably, to Trump allegedly ordering that the warship John McCain be hidden from his view during his recent visit to Japan. Did Trump really call the Mayor of London a "stone cold loser"? I'm not sure where I heard that. Several places, I think. The news on Facebook is absolutely crazy, seemingly tailored to my exact personal tastes. They do it, of course, by keeping track of everything you and I click on and respond to on Facebook. Facebook is taking over the world, controlling everyone. My question is: how much of what I read comes from Russia? The stuff I get is all anti-Trump, so, maybe none. It might be the conservative bubbles that are being infiltrated and manipulated by the Russians, putting up the pro-Trump anti-liberal stuff the hard core right wing evangelical Trump supporting community loves and eats up. When they interfered in the election, the Russians did not do it by feeding anti-Trump material to the liberals, or pro -Trump stuff to the liberals, which would be pointless. Liberals would delete pro Trump material, not share it. The Russians created and targeted a large amount anti-Hillary anti-liberal, pro Trump material towards someone..but who? Towards the visible conservative communities, is the answer, understanding that those groups would eat it up and tend to share it, and spread it around far and wide, and thereby reel in by mere chance as many of the undecided vote as they could. The shot gun effect. Actually finding the undecided vote would be vary hard to do, since undecided people don't tend to send out vociferous messages exposing themselves, proclaiming their proud undecidedness, like vociferous, inflamed right wingers do. The plan was to give the Trump supporters the weapons to sway undecided voters. The Russians manipulated the right wing, not the left wing. This is one of the reasons Republicans so vehemently denied Russian interference, until the proof was so convincing they no longer could. Now they no longer do. Just like they will no longer deny climate change, when the climate gets so crazy that its obvious and undeniable. They cannot deny that either Trump, his assistants, or both told the navy to hide the McCain worship. Because we all heard Trump insult McCain, repeatedly. In all these cases, the truth makes the conservative Republican Trump community look very, very bad, and its going to get worse. Meanwhile, Facebook is trying to make me happy by feeding me all this lovely anti-Trump material on my feed. I lap it up. But that doesn't mean it isn't true. Hell, I'm already anti-Trump. Nobody needs to feed me fake anti-Trump news to make me that way. I try to share it with independents to increase the anti-trump community. Why not? What's true and what's not will have to be sorted out later. later, and constantly, as it keeps showing up. But the Russians were feeding anti liberal pro Trump material, probably all fake news, to conservatives. It would be fake because The conservatives already get the real news, without Russian help. And that is partly, dear world, why the pro Trump wight in america is so shockingly dishonest, with such an incredible amount of lies and nonsense in which they firmly believe. The American right wing, millions strong, is a veritable fake news machine, alarmingly. Only the truth, and proof of the truth, will destroy this evil machine. We must prove that Obama was born in america, that climate change is real, and that Democrats do not deliberately create social programs to keep people dependent, beholden to Democrats. And there are a billion more right wing lies where that came from, all waiting to be disproven and laughed at.