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[–] maltespier 1 point 8 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

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[–] heili 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

They were actually heavily featured on the TV Mythbusters for the first couple of seasons as a source of urban legends and myths, back when they stuck to shit that actually was urban legend and myth.

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[–] Dibgick ago 

Thank you.