christian [he/him]

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Cake day: September 13th, 2020

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  • Holy shit I had no idea politifact was that awful. The video quite obviously went viral for that brief moment where it seems like the “single word” is complete gibberish. I’m capable of imagining a person who doesn’t find that very funny (that person I’ve imagined is wrong btw), but it’s very hard for me to imagine a person who can actually watch the video and think it’s going viral for a different reason. The only place you can pause that video before he gets to the word “possibilities” that could possibly be interpreted as him having completed his thought is immediately after the gibberish, which they explicitly state is not where the post in question ends.

    It’s not that I doubted the many people who have said politifact is bad, but I always figured that being bad would involve more sleight of hand than just assuming their readers aren’t going to have seen the video in question. I was picturing something like refuting a claim by citing a reference to a source that most readers will find is too much effort to dig into, not relying on none of their readers having seen a very short clip they’re describing as viral.