[–] Holonomic 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Snopes is nothing more than one or two people, operating out of their home using no more skill or access privileges than anyone else. I believe it use to be a husband and wife, but I don't know if that was, or is now the case. Once I learned that I chose to put little credibility in what they said.
[–] maltespier 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago (edited ago)
maybe 10 years ago, there used to be loads of these chain emails going around full of stories of extraordinary things happening like massive health scare over rats having orgies on coke cans, or quotes completely made up. Snopes used to debunk these claims and built a reputation on the internet for fact checking. It's like internet version of the tv show Mythbusters - these came out of all these things that kept getting sent to people before we had facebook, twitter youtube.
Since those early days, their brand of trustworthiness is now being used to defend democrats and anything liberal while Facebook use them to debunk "fake news". Libs will think that all they have to do is post a snopes article and look for the big red "false" image and not have to worry about thinking about it any more. It's why this article exists, as it forms the backbone of the apologism to try and make out liberals actually being the victim even when they're swinging glass bottles at peoples heads
[–] BistroPalin 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
Guys, guys, guys, she was just cleaning up trash.
Also, it's completely a lie that she was carrying an atom bomb or was a werewolf.
So we've debunked it. Good work all, we did it!
[–] user2033 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
To bend over backwards like this to make her look innocent, when everyone there knew what they were going into, is completely retarded. Both sides were going to war. "I dunno, we were just testing our weapons by firing live ammunition and the opposing army all fell down for some reason". Come on. "Punch nazis" has been the gameplan since November 8th. If that's the plan, fine, but just be honest about it. And the same from the Trump side. If you want to make leftists mad and watch them do crazy shit, just admit that's what you're doing. Don't say "we were just there raising money for orphans with cancer and they attacked!". If it's a war, call it a war.
[–] CarpetDime 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Leftists have always been unreasonable and evil, wanting the public to see them for who they are is not an unreasonable strategy, don't equivocate it with punching Nazis.
[–] user2033 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Neutral observers see one side acting childish to instigate the other side into acting childish. Neither side comes out looking good. Leftists are bad enough on their own. You don't need to go to their rallies and get into petty conflicts with them to make them look bad. They do a great job of that by themselves. Now if someone just finds it fun to make them mad, I have no problem with it. Have a great time. But don't try to turn your trolling into a virtuous act. Someone like Lauren Southern who goes in with the intention of making them react, and makes herself part of the story, while claiming to be a respectable journalist just covering the events, is being dishonest. If you antagonize people, they are going to react. You're not proving anything except that if you act like an asshole, people might act like assholes back. If they act like assholes while you act respectably, THEN you are proving something.
[–] EloquentOgre 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Talk about blatant misdirection. Who the hell was claiming the bottle contained explosives? Photos and videos arose and were chronologically linked to prove she was brandishing a bottle as a weapon. That is the truth. Her lie was that she never had a bottle.
[–] culofiesta 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Leftists that believe Wikipedia, Snopes and any of the MSM after the shitshow the perpetrated during and after the election deserve the bullshit that is going to happen to them