So apparently in the time it took me to get to work, this steaming pile of horseshit has managed to climb to the top of the Rec List. I’ll save you the click, though I recommend you stop by to give it a quick love-flag.
The diarist copies and links to an anonymous reddit post (by a guy who literally calls himself “redacted”). This would be outrageous enough if it weren’t /r/conspiracy being linked to. It’s an interesting subreddit. Right now, its filled to the brim with BernieBros and has a lot of Hillary stories, but it still makes time for its long-time bff Ron Paul. I think they just like having something to talk about besides 9/11 being an inside job, and after they helped drive the woman CEO of reddit out because she and her staff deigned to close a fat-shaming subreddit they haven’t had much besides fluoride to discuss.
Anyway, the great shame of Daily Kos today is not that someone posted this asinine unsourced, anonymous turdburger of a story. There’s always gonna be that guy and Hillary Supporters aren’t without their own asshats. No, the great shame of Daily Kos is the rush of Berners to Rec this garbage after it’s been flagged, to share it like crazy on social media knowing that a lie gets around the world before the truth gets its pants on, to spout off in comments about how carefully they follow this place’s rules while reccing up garbage CT like this. There’s some big names in that list of recommenders, you should check it out. And then you should think about what it means for their credibility the next time you read their diaries.