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27th July 2019, 04:32 AM | #121 |
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And this is The Babylon Bee modernizing (but not in the slightest improving) the anti-evolutionary myth of the blind watchmaker: Apple IPhone Evolved Naturally Over Billions Of Years, Experts Now Believe Aren't Darwinists stoooopid!? |
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27th July 2019, 08:07 PM | #122 |
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Snopes manages to screw up even their fact check. The location was NOT the only significant change. In the BB story, there is no confrontation at all. The woman imagines it completely. In the real story, there was a confrontation, just two different versions of how it played out. And their satire version isn't "particularly confusing" at all, at least not to anyone with half a clue. Evidently that doesn't include Snopes.
Oh, and this isn't the only time Snopes has decided to fact check BB. Their previous effort was even more laughable. |
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27th July 2019, 08:29 PM | #123 |
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27th July 2019, 09:43 PM | #124 |
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For some (obvious) reason, Ziggurat feels the need to present this as if Snopes is fact-checking The Babylon Bee. They're not. They are fact checking stories that were first published (made up) by The Babylon Bee but have now taken on a life of their own because alt-right and other internet trolls are spreading them online as if they didn't come from a right-wing Christian mediocre satire site.
That was also the case with the AOC satire piece I linked to in post 120:
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They are obviously not fact checking The Babylon Bee. On the contrary, as part of their fact checking of a social-media meme, they reference the Bee as the source, but Ziggurat joins forces with the alt-right trolls and pretends that Snopes is fact-checking the Bee. In post 120 I linked to one of the sites where the AOC story is presented as fact! And its alt-right readers believe it. This is pure and simple lying. And please notice that I am now fact checking you, Ziggurat, and not the The Babylon Bee, just in case you are unable to tell the difference. ETA: Notice what happens to comments that point out that the AOC meme is a lie (at the bottom of the page): low rated comment (click to show). That is very similar to what you are doing, Ziggurat. |
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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