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I am not sure where to post this as it covers several possibilities (sorry, Meme peeps!). 🙂 I am most interested in the last line, which reminds us about how ideas (and fake? news) comes to be accepted as fact. Thoughts?

poetdi56 7 Apr 7
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Bugs Bunny IS my god🙂 Seriously, it is disgusting and downright scary how some of the populace today accepts what they hear from fringe websites as fact. And Trump perpetuates that notion by calling out legitimate news agencies as fake when they daily report negatively on his administration. I believe this could be a threat to our democracy as this constant drumbeat of fake news endangers freedom of the press. And when that happens, we're all in trouble. This is how democracies are destroyed and toliterian regimes rise to power, partly through controlling the press. Think Soviet Union and Pravda. I also believe that if Trump loses in 2020, he will not accept the election and not relinquish his authority. My 2 cents...

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Maybe it comes down to a point of testing what you read.

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'Fake news' is easily refuted. Unfortunately, it is more often easily dismissed by those either not equipped or not disposed to refute.

I think ol' Elmer personifies the yoked minions of partisan doctrines who continue to believe, regardless of cognitive paradoxes. For Elmer's entire life of hunting he returned home to be greeted by a pot full of veggies and water patiently awaiting a wabbit. I think the vegetables actually gave up before Elmer. Hu huh huh huh. 😉

My point about fake news (note the ? mark I put the original post for this very purpose) was that it is easy to slip misinformation everywhere. Over time, it's like playing the game "telephone" where the original message is lost.

@poetdi56 Yes like multiple layers of 'scripture' translations. One cannot reasonably accept them without knowledge about the history making them possible and motivations of translators. Fortunately, it is easier with current events to validate from fresh, contemporary information.

@Silver1wun Or not, given misinformation these days. 🙂

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I mean you see those pictures of Bears at picnic benches sitting like humans ... Or i have a picture of a bear on a jetski ... So the question i now have is did those bears watch yogi bear ? Is the influence of the TV beyond the human sphere and have some bears been spying through the window checking Yogi for tips !!!

😀 😀 😀 😀

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I mean it's actually deep as hell this.

Right?????

@poetdi56 I like it a lot!!

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"She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.”
Paddy Chayefsky

As a classical musician, I hear a lot about the music in Bugs cartoons. One person, when I said something like "do you like classical music" actually replied - "oh, you mean cartoon music?" SMDH

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Don't get started on Mickey Mouse or Yogi Bear you will be here all fucking night Di.... hehe.

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