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Gaslighting, and I hate the term, is so prevalent and relevant today.

Posted on 8/7/24 at 7:29 am
Posted by Will Cover
Davidson, NC
Member since Mar 2007
40195 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 7:29 am
It is 100 % in play by the main stream media, each and every day, and on each and every show.

What's even more frustrating though is that many people today do not possess the ability to think for themselves and decide what is real and what isn't.

They are spoon fed wrong information, and take it as fact. This is why the liberal MSM is having so much success with changing the narrative and making it seem as if Kamala is the second coming of Obama

This is the same woman that dropped out of the 2019 Presidential race because she couldn't get enough funding to keep her going, yet magically, she is raising millions and millions of dollars without having to have one press conference, or one sit down interview with a "journalist." And this is the same woman who was the "highly touted" top-tier candidate the last go around, and she dropped out because she had zero popularity with voters.

And she is supposedly tied or now ahead of Trump in the most recent polls. bullshite. Just a few weeks ago, before Jotato was seeking re-election before he was forced out, it was said that the Democrats were simply trying to salvage winning the House and the Senate majorities. Where did that narrative go?

The polls, and the mainstream media are simply manipulative, and it's time for people to actually become "woke" to what is really happening --- we are all being lied to.

I'm not buying it. However, I am buying that the Democrats have a plan to do what they did in 2020. Republicans better be ready. And Independents to counteract it.
This post was edited on 8/7/24 at 7:30 am
Posted by TailbackU
ATL
Member since Oct 2005
13428 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 7:31 am to
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin
Posted by captainFid
Never apologize to barbarism
Member since Dec 2014
10465 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 7:48 am to
The left has been doing this for a while. Enabled by the main-stream media, it has just now to the point where even the average person knows it has happening.

Want an example. One of my favorites, when Trump was running 10 years ago, he stated seeing Middle Eastern folks celebrating on roof-tops in American cities.

The media said 'Fact-check: it didn't happen'. Sure enough, it's been scrubbed... from the internet. Think what this must take.

I know it did. I saw the same video (and it wasn't over-seas video). Additionally, I saw, on a Birmingham feed, students celebrating at a local establishment in Tuscaloosa. I saw the video again after pulling it up a year or so later.

Now, completely gone... and we're told it never happened.
Posted by GhostOfFreedom
Member since Jan 2021
13269 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 8:53 am to
Trying for the Mandela Effect and making us all doubt ourselves.

The CIA did some experiment with triangles and squares and gaslighting a everyday citizen to go along with the crowd that called a triangle a square. I think it is sick, personally. I despise liars and the efforts to gaslight people.

It is evil, imho.

Posted by GhostOfFreedom
Member since Jan 2021
13269 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:02 am to
Posted by BamaAtl
South of North
Member since Dec 2009
22253 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:31 am to
quote:

What's even more frustrating though is that many people today do not possess the ability to think for themselves and decide what is real and what isn't.

They are spoon fed wrong information, and take it as fact.


Good job describing the basic Fox News viewer.
Posted by SDVTiger
Cabo San Lucas
Member since Nov 2011
97818 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:32 am to
You think men get pregnant. Weirdo
Posted by TigerDoc
Texas
Member since Apr 2004
11844 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:35 am to
quote:

They are spoon fed wrong information, and take it as fact.


And think you do the same, and because what is taken as fact depends on what sources you consider trustworthy, it ends up like this:

Posted by BamaAtl
South of North
Member since Dec 2009
22253 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:46 am to
quote:

SDVTiger


You think women are men, and somehow that's my problem? Weird.
Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
55169 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:50 am to
"Gaslighting" is a useful term to use to describe the massive, overwhelming, comprehensive and effective propaganda that Americans have been subjected to for a long time now.

We've been "gaslit" to accept that Trump is "literally Hitler". We were gaslit that the COVID vax was "safe and effective". We were gaslit that Trump was an agent of Putin.

I would not rule out these two:

1) we were gaslit that Trump lost fair and square

2) we were gaslit that Cooks was a lone nut
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
10905 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:51 am to
Until news agencies are held accountable for sharing false stories or proclaiming things wthout verification, nothing will change.

MsM could lie about anything they want and nothing would happen. They could say " Trump suspected of having terminal illness according to sources close to the campaign " knowing full well its bullshite and have zero punishment.

Posted by JimEverett
Member since May 2020
2375 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:52 am to
What I wonder - is the gaslighting by media really new or have they always been pawns/players/employees of some sort of deep state agenda?

I think something has changed in the last 25 years or so because when I read old articles from the NYT, WaPo, AP, etc. there was nowhere near the reliance on "unnamed intelligence source" - but at the same time, the general public had nowhere near the ability to check the press' sources at the time in the way we do now.
Posted by financetiger
Member since Feb 2008
1875 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 9:58 am to
And get ready for those numbers to go up. Supposedly she has Taylor Swift and Beyoncé going to sing at the DNC. All the young black women love Beyoncé and the white ones love Taylor. They know exactly what they are doing. There are some young women that will vote for her strictly bc of this. Sad but true.
Posted by lake chuck fan
Vinton
Member since Aug 2011
23653 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:36 am to
The MSM is the communist progressives propaganda machine. The produce the lies and misinformation needed to push the commie narrative. It's a powerfully effective tool and there's nothing pushing back or refuting it in the public news space. As long as Americans use MSM as their source of information, those Americans will make choices and decisions using lies and misinformation as their guide.

Progressives use the MSM the same way Russia, The CCP, and North Korea use their news agencies.
Posted by GrizzlyAlloy
Member since Aug 2020
2581 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:45 am to
quote:

Good job describing the basic Fox News viewer.


No one is watching Fox News any more.
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
77463 posts
Posted on 8/7/24 at 10:59 am to
quote:

Gaslighting, and I hate the term, is so prevalent and relevant today.


Order of the Phoenix was on the other day and the way Umbridge conducts herself in the classroom, insisting that the threat posed by Voldemort was imaginary sounded like the nightly news' gaslighting efforts.

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