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Originally Posted by Sugar Nut
I find this sort of ridicule-every-uncommon-ish-opinion stance that seems to be in order over here somewhat dangerous. Not everybody who suspects the mainstream media to have an agenda is a conspiracy nut who believes Obama is a blood-sucking humanoid reptile who is out to enslave this planet.
I'm here in "Politics" for two days and I can only imagine you have to deal with serious nutjobs on a regular basis, but there are varying degrees, you know, and being skeptical is a good thing. Do you have to be always right when you question something? No, and if you aren't that doesn't mean you believe in aliens.
In my opinion, if you believe the mainstream media has no agenda, it's you who needs his head examined.
I was going to go through each part individually, but I'll over the whole thing as a whole. First, I don't trust the MSM holistically, nor do I trust the FBI holistically either, but what alternatives to this are there? Reddit and 4Chan have put the most manpower into this and they came up with, " This guy looks scary" and the guy that "looked scary" WENT TO THE POLICE STATION TO CLEAR HIS NAME. The fact he responded on Facebook means he's streets head of even the average American in terms of accountability. But even Reddit put more effort into it than the Infowars types who say some scary guys that looked vaguely militaristic and concluded it's all a false flag operation, or maybe a cover up by the government and Saudi Arabia or whatever makes white middle class gun nuts feel safe at night.
I don't trust the FBI completely but this chronic cynicalism that manifests itself as permanent skepticism boarding on conspiratardism is just as debilitating as complete belief in the USA.