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[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

It's RT. Take it with a pinch heap of salt, like you would with CNN. This is not news; it looks like a talk show – an opinion piece.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

I'd take RT over CNN any day. I buy most of their info too. Granted they don't rip into Russia obviously, but the rest is legit and too mainstream if anything.

If you don't think the burned trucks were misreported then you haven't been paying attention to all the other verification posted on /s/Venezuela about the MSM bullshit propaganda.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

I didn't say it was wrong. I didn't say it was worse than CNN. I said not to trust it.

This organisation does not have your best interests at heart. They often mix legitimate stories with outright fabrications, so it's very hard to tell the difference. I trust you to be able to do so 7 times out of 10, but I wouldn't trust many people (myself included) to be able to do so even 3 times out of 10.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Take every post and everything everywhere at all times for ever and ever with a heap of salt, including your ample skepticism.

Find me fabrications on RT that aren't abundant on other MSM that makes them more worthy of your scorn on RT above all others.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

Not saying it's worse than other MSM organisations (that depends on whether you're patriotic to the US). But RT makes stuff up loads, while cleverly avoiding accountability for it. See the RationalWiki article on RT.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Now who's being gullible.

Rational Wiki is one of the least rational places I've ever been online.

After Wikipedia banned me for a year for being "another polite truther" I first went to Rational Wiki. Being skeptical of God is the lowest hanging fruit a skeptic can reach for. They are an utterly intolerant close-minded community of goat lovers.1

If they can't handle a neutral article about James Corbett (that I wrote and they tried to add goat2 to) then they can't be relied on much else. I actually prefer Wikipedia's consistent bias to that of Rational Wiki which is all over the map except where it should be.

Come on man.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

How did you do that? You dismissed a source without sounding like a sceptic-for-scepticism's-sake. I should be taking notes.

Ok, then. Is the European Parliament a more reliable source for you? This directly pertains to:

Find me fabrications on RT that aren't abundant on other MSM

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

How did I do it? I know of what I speak before I speak.

I tried to explain to the Rational Wiki folks that the CIA was orchestrating and managing ISIS and they refused to see any of it or be even slightly skeptical. They said I was trolling and using lists of evidence to bully them (but with their custom code goat in-joke shit).

I also know that RT is very good except when it parrots the MSM and establishment stuff, and of course harsh criticism of Russia.

Bad link.

And I don't buy anything from any government whole cloth. Especially rigged systems like the EU, as bad as Washington, designed to exploit and collapse society.

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Fixed the link. Sorry I didn't spot that!

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That article is about Russia and Russia relations. I already stated that's a "weak/blind spot" for RT. More than once.

And to be honest, I'm on Russia's side on most of the Ukraine issues.