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Zack Polanski says he was wrong to call himself a Red Cross spokesperson
(www.theguardian.com)
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You consume way too much mainstream media
I frequently share stories from media outside the mainstream on this very community.
Doesn't matter if you dabble with truth from time to time when the majority of your diet is fed to you by the Epstein class.
If all you've got left are these false and petty insults I think we're done here.
Look, you are just repeating mainstream media smears, word-for-word, seemingly with little fact checking or checking the context or background of the events as they are reported to you, by extremely biased media organisations who have demonstrated complete willingness to peddle right wing propaganda and advance the interests of the ruling class in this country, at the expense of the rest of us.
You can dig your heels in and refuse to acknowledge the reality or you can stop blindly believing all the shit the propaganda machine spews into your slop trough, your call.
The only reason it 'seems' to you that I haven't done any research is that I disagree with you, and you think that must mean I'm ignorant. That is of course true of some people who disagree with you, but it's arrogant and counter-productive to assume it. You don't know what I've read and what I haven't read, or indeed what I think about virtually anything.
Dismissing these claims because they're made by 'mainstream media' (an ill-defined term) even though Polanski has apologised for his actions and thereby acknowledged the veracity of the accusations is just nonsensical. What I see in Polanski is a guy who makes inaccurate, self-aggrandising statements and then lies more when called out. The press are reporting on the fact that he does it, and that he keeps doing it. You may feel it's worth voting for him anyway; that's your prerogative. But facts are facts.
Something you could reasonably say is: 'He shouldn't have done that and it worries me that it's becoming a pattern but he's a damn sight less corrupt and evil than Nigel Farage*. His politics are basically aligned with mine, I think his heart's in the right place and this doesn't change my overall view of him'.
What you can't say is, 'None of these things that this guy acknowledged happened and apologised for count/are real because I read about some of them in the Guardian'. That doesn't make sense.
*Links because you seem to believe the 'mainstream' press doesn't report on right-wing corruption and this also... isn't true.
And we're back to the insults. Have a good one.
Aww, incapable of defending liberalism without authoritarianism, are we? Classic.
For the record, it wasn't me who removed your comment.