The World Right Now

[Neo Emolga]

Normally I don't get into political stuffs, but I do want to say one thing.

When it comes to the media, make sure you get scrutinize, fact-check, and get the full story on EVERYTHING they say about the subject matter before talking and speaking up about it. Don't just rely on one source and keep an objective and open mindset before accepting what they're saying. You know the phrase "take things with a grain of salt" in terms of being skeptical or not to take things too literally? Well, those days are done. You need the whole salt shaker now. :P

The media is going out of their way to trigger you. They cater to the emotionally impulsive and the ones who are quick to jump to conclusions based on limited facts and information resources. That's how they get their ratings and that's how they get their sponsorships. They're out to feed you the story you've been waiting to hear, whether it's something that swings more to the left or to the right depending on the source and their intended target viewer market, but also depending on how much of it is true and how much of it is farfetched to support what their viewers are waiting to see. I've seen videos butchered, facts skewed, and evidence disregarded way too many times on both sides.

So please, take special care with each developing news story that surfaces. Beware of what you see on Facebook and other social media sources. I have friends that are in political total war mode on Facebook right now and it's disheartening.

[Blaquaza]

Just in case anyone is interested, that petition I mentioned before is at 630000 now, just short of 1% of the UK's population. The thing is, it's only rising.

The world went to hell when we found out he was going to be the next President. We too have something where if a petition gets 100,000 I think is the number that the President HAS to look at it. But the crap he is doing now makes us as America look horrid. And even if we got rid of him we still have Mike Pence who is just as bad if not worse than Trump.

Pence is worse, because unlike Trump he knows what he's doing. Any person who believes in shock therapy is evil beyond words, and that man is one of those people.

Normally I don't get into political stuffs, but I do want to say one thing.

When it comes to the media, make sure you get scrutinize, fact-check, and get the full story on EVERYTHING they say about the subject matter before talking and speaking up about it. Don't just rely on one source and keep an objective and open mindset before accepting what they're saying. You know the phrase "take things with a grain of salt" in terms of being skeptical or not to take things too literally? Well, those days are done. You need the whole salt shaker now. :P

The media is going out of their way to trigger you. They cater to the emotionally impulsive and the ones who are quick to jump to conclusions based on limited facts and information resources. That's how they get their ratings and that's how they get their sponsorships. They're out to feed you the story you've been waiting to hear, whether it's something that swings more to the left or to the right depending on the source and their intended target viewer market, but also depending on how much of it is true and how much of it is farfetched to support what their viewers are waiting to see. I've seen videos butchered, facts skewed, and evidence disregarded way too many times on both sides.

So please, take special care with each developing news story that surfaces. Beware of what you see on Facebook and other social media sources. I have friends that are in political total war mode on Facebook right now and it's disheartening.

As someone who wants to be a journalist, it's sad to see how the media is preying on the situation, from both the left and the right. All kinds of nonsense is being spewed to deceive more naive members of the public, and that's not on. Like you I don't usually involve myself in politics, but the state of the world right now has kind of pushed me into it, because I want to be in the know rather than hearing all kinds of dramatised crap from the media.

The real question is, how do you tell what's fact and what's fiction anymore?

According to the Trump Administration, you don't. There are simply facts and "alternative facts". Everything is a fact now, apparently. :P