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Facts about the Caravan
If you’re going to base your mid term votes on this issue, please at least get your facts straight.
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The Contradictory Metrics of Ignorance
I just came across a group on Facebook called Jewish Ritual Murder. It has 1057 likes. Its sole purpose is to perpetuate false stories that promote the myth of the Jewish blood libel. There’s an insane belief out there that Jews ritually murder Christians and use their blood for any number of nefarious purposes. This…
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“Rumors of My Death…”
Have you ever made the mistake of clicking on one of those sponsored ads on Facebook? Someone famous is dead, or has gotten remarried to someone else famous, or is crying, or has ruined his or her reputation, or has had a shocking secret revealed. When you click on it, you get an ad for…
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On Being Misunderstood
I’ve got an ex-boyfriend who likes to post on his Facebook page that I cheated on him when I never did. In retrospect I probably should have. I was that miserable.
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Sneaky Memes
/meem/ n. [coined by analogy with `gene’, by Richard Dawkins] An idea considered as a replicator, esp. with the connotation that memes parasitize people into propagating them much as viruses do. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meme I’d never even heard the term meme until I got a Facebook account, but they certainly are like parasites. More and more I’ve…
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The Misinformation Movement
The other day I was perusing Youtube and I came across this video called The Eyeball Collector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdaJRJFMty8 It says in capital letters, TRUE CRIME CASE, so I was taken in for a split second. But, as I’ve written in a recent blog entry, I am a bit of a sick puppy, so surely in…