It astonishes me how much utter nonsense is repeated, again and again, until people are just "sure it's true."
Please try to notice when the hard questions are dodged or simply ignored.
I fear that many people get their news only from sources with a constant political bias. And, what's worse, they don't really grasp that they aren't getting the whole story.
The U.S. midterms are approaching. So, there is a tidal wave of nonsense on the internet right now.
And even some self-professed "conservatives" seem to be getting confused.
OMG OMG OMG, gas prices are up! The sky is falling! Oh no! Oh no!
But ANY attempt at actual research might reveal that inflation-adjusted gas prices seem to be actually LOWER in 2026 than 2022. And why not check the price of oil per barrel historically -- to compare 2022 under Biden to 2026 under Trump. That's not that hard to do, is it?
If anybody bothers to actually look, I think they'll be surprised. Golly, even with the conflict in Iran it looks to me like 2022 was worse.
But don't believe me -- indeed, nobody is authorized to rely on this post -- I'm merely trying to inspire others to pay attention and not just swim in political nonsense. It's possible to actually look at the hard statistics. Isn't trying to find the facts better than relying on mere political narrative? I think so.
Furthermore, I didn't see, above, any real answer to the hard questions I asked earlier:
Iran has been highly-enriching Uranium and building long-range missiles. Why? Can anybody actually answer with an answer that isn't just an obvious fairy tale?
And notice who Iran has been funding, year after year. And how they've treated dissidents.
But such questions just gets ignored, or bypassed, because gas prices are up a bit -- although they are apparently LESS now than they've been at times before, pre-Trump. But looking at the data might ruin a political narrative, eh?
Trump has been smeared over and over. And some just keep nodding along with it, seeming to miss it when the popular narrative about Trump turns out to be nonsense, and directly OPPOSITE to what he actually did or said.
How can this be? Not all news sources seem as, uh, efficient at revealing when a claim that was earlier made turns out to be utterly false and even the opposite of what was claimed.
And if some watch only the same news sources, over and over, exclusively, there's a good chance that they don't really know everything that's gone on and going on.
But I don't see that changing much. People like to fit in with the others who surround them, and they don't like to be wrong. So the same nonsense gets swallowed whole, day after day.
But as for me, if I could have kept nuclear weapons from spreading across the globe over the years, I wouldn't have minded a bit of a gas price increase -- even if it went on for some time. I think that's a sensible opinion, but I suppose some will continue to disagree. At least if it brings petty political or geopolitical advantage.
It astonishes me how much utter nonsense is repeated, again and again, until people are just "sure it's true."
Please try to notice when the hard questions are dodged or simply ignored.
I fear that many people get their news only from sources with a constant political bias. And, what's worse, they don't really grasp that they aren't getting the whole story.
The U.S. midterms are approaching. So, there is a tidal wave of nonsense on the internet right now.
And even some self-professed "conservatives" seem to be getting confused.
OMG OMG OMG, gas prices are up! The sky is falling! Oh no! Oh no!
But ANY attempt at actual research might reveal that inflation-adjusted gas prices seem to be actually LOWER in 2026 than 2022. And why not check the price of oil per barrel historically -- to compare 2022 under Biden to 2026 under Trump. That's not that hard to do, is it?
If anybody bothers to actually look, I think they'll be surprised. Golly, even with the conflict in Iran it looks to me like 2022 was worse.
But don't believe me -- indeed, nobody is authorized to rely on this post -- I'm merely trying to inspire others to pay attention and not just swim in political nonsense. It's possible to actually look at the hard statistics. Isn't trying to find the facts better than relying on mere political narrative? I think so.
Furthermore, I didn't see, above, any real answer to the hard questions I asked earlier:
Iran has been highly-enriching Uranium and building long-range missiles. Why? Can anybody actually answer with an answer that isn't just an obvious fairy tale?
And notice who Iran has been funding, year after year. And how they've treated dissidents.
But such questions just gets ignored, or bypassed, because gas prices are up a bit -- although they are apparently LESS now than they've been at times before, pre-Trump. But looking at the data might ruin a political narrative, eh?
Trump has been smeared over and over. And some just keep nodding along with it, seeming to miss it when the popular narrative about Trump turns out to be nonsense, and directly OPPOSITE to what he actually did or said.
How can this be? Not all news sources seem as, uh, efficient at revealing when a claim that was earlier made turns out to be utterly false and even the opposite of what was claimed.
And if some watch only the same news sources, over and over, exclusively, there's a good chance that they don't really know everything that's gone on and going on.
But I don't see that changing much. People like to fit in with the others who surround them, and they don't like to be wrong. So the same nonsense gets swallowed whole, day after day.
But as for me, if I could have kept nuclear weapons from spreading across the globe over the years, I wouldn't have minded a bit of a gas price increase -- even if it went on for some time. I think that's a sensible opinion, but I suppose some will continue to disagree. At least if it brings petty political or geopolitical advantage.