Last Week Tonight, Trump throwing gasoline on covid conspiracy theories

Discussion in 'Politics' started by Bugenhagen, Jul 21, 2020.

  1. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

     
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  2. kingjelly

    kingjelly

    This guy is great, never miss his show.
     
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  3. gaussian

    gaussian

    Every little bit follows the same format. Wrong/misleading information followed by an off-color quip about Santa fucking his reindeer or something. Shitty quips make the terrible news look believable and he speaks with authority like he's capable of any sort of actual journalistic integrity.

    It goes without saying that the people watching this squirrel looking dipshit are very special. I'd give him some credit for being a comedian but he's a shit comedian too. Just about the only thing this guy is good at is storing nuts for winter and stealing bird seed but even that's up for debate.
     
  4. kingjelly

    kingjelly

    Everything in the above clip is absolutely on point.
     
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  5. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    so triggered cons are stuck with Dennis fucking Miller & his 30 year old references
     
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  6. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Wrong/misleading? So the Earth is flat and popular conspiracies are anything but exactly as he describes them?

    What else do you believe in?
     
  7. gaussian

    gaussian

    Equating the flat earth (a trivially debunked conspiracy theory) to any form of conspiracy surrounding COVID-19 is affirming the consequent. It's illogical to come to the conclusion that because flat earth is false, therefore all "popular" (whatever this means) conspiracies are false. In fact, this is exactly what he wants you to believe. Who writes his script? The kind of people who prefer people who don't ask questions and just consume whatever funny squirrelman says. The stupid jokes these "journalists" use are designed to take you out of critical thinking. Once you see it, it's hard to unsee it. Every 10 minute logical fallacy followed by a stupid joke is just training you to not ask questions because funny man makes you laugh.

    I'm not sure why I took the time to write this. You're just going to throw shit at me anyway.
     
  8. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    I'm not sure either as it seems fairly clear you watched the first few minutes and figured you could wing the remaining.

    It's OK, this section is kind of a tar pit for trapping right wing spectrum guys.
     
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  9. exGOPer

    exGOPer

    If you actually watched the clip instead of ranting and jumping to conclusions about what he wants you to believe, you would actually see him make the same point as you do where he didn't dismiss all conspiracies.
     
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