#false news

[kiddmandu1]

[reality-detective]

Everyone is being really nice about Jimmy Carter. Never forget that he declared Trump to be an "illegitimate president" during his first term...

Russia had nothing to do with it. What you have witnessed about Russia is the "identify, Smear and terminate Campaign that Piglosi spoke of to the press. I have posted about that as well. It's what [THEY] have done to Trump since he began running for president and continued to do after he stepped aside and it's what they are still doing to him. Pete Hegseth has also spoken about this tactic. 🤔

[essiana35yana]

Common myths I see on the Internet about young Tom Riddle:~

- He was bullied in the orphanage (actually, HE was the bully, no evidence from the books suggest he was bullied.)

- He was popular at Hogwarts (yeah, he might have been well liked by the staff, but there isn't really any mention of being popular with students other than his gang of Slytherin guys. People may have expected "spectacular things" from him, but this doesn't mean he was popular in a friend sense.)

- He had a lot of girlfriends and sex for manipulation and personal gain (😂😂😂 no way! He was literally born without the ability to love and form connections, he never had any friends and never wanted one, so why would he share his body that way??)

[applinsfan]

BIG MONEY

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The sales say that Common Wubbox has collected more than 10million coins just in Plant Island and the sales are incresing, it will get more than 100million for the end of the year if the sales keep going like this.

[daisy-the-dorky-dog-1]

This just in: Nasa's new experimental hypersonic aircraft designed to "finally intercept the goddamn ice cream truck".

In other news, my wife seems to be mad at me for "making our relationship too public"; more at 9

[evesnapdragon]

Freaking love Snopes

Snopes is a free (with ads, but you can get a subscription for no ads) news site that is highly trustworthy.

I really need to look at it more, but basically it investigates rumors that have been trending and helps a lot with mass-spread false news.

But seriously I really recommend it. False news spreads faster than real news, especially on the internet. And propaganda can come from both the right and the left. (of course, propaganda is not always necessarily evil either, but that's a much bigger topic I don't have time for.)

But, in essence, don't trust everything you see online. Lots of people--even on tumblr, want to smear the other side, and false news is a massive problem in today's world.

So here's a nice resource to help keep you informed!

[imsosocold]

Sebastian Michaelis backstory reveal in the latest manga chapter guys! Spoilers below!

[ketrindoll]

Olympic disinformation and how ruzzians are behind it AGAIN

So, just for context, this post will be about the recent firehose of falsehoods about the boxing match between the Italian Angela Carini and Algerian Imane Khelif.

First of all, it's clear that Imane is no man. Algeria posted her childhood photos, her own father was against her boxing for it being unbecoming for girls, and Algeria itself is not exactly a liberal paradise full of LGBTQ athletes. Besides, Khelif got eliminated after the quarterfinal during the last Olympics, so clearly, there are plenty of those who punch harder. Meanwhile Italian participating in the "who can punch harder" sport had a breakdown over being punched hard. Truly surprised Pikachu face.

But you're going to say "hey, you Baltic russophobe, what does Russia have to do with this??" Well, buckle-up, because I'm about to serve you a huge scoop of russo-realism.

Just for context, I like to track russian media. It helps me find easy arguments why ruzzians are degenerate pieces of shit and proof of their imperialist genocidal mentality. So I learned about supposed trans-athlete beating the crap out of poor Italian from their media channels first, before I saw it spread like wildfire everywhere else. Ruzzians currently have a trend of jumping on every story that could discredit Paris Olympics, so they're now apparently against "men beating women". Which is ironic, because domestic violence is legal in ruzzia, so they would totally participate in "beat tf out of your wife" Olympics, but probably get disqualified for doping.

Of course, these news proved to be false, to the embarrassing shame of every bigot and their mother JK Rowling, who recently proved that her every braincell has successfully made an exit. But then new falsehood popped up, the one that even trans-supporting people shared as an argument why Khelif should be allowed to participate in women's sports. The lie was that she is a hermaphrodite, born with XY chromosomes.

This lie was, of course, fully spread in the russian media. I'd even argue they spread it first. But what is it based on?

Well, take a bowl of popcorn, because I'm about to drop my main argument.

The lie about Imane Khelif being of neutral sex first spread after she and South Korean boxer got disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA, not to be confused with IBF(federation)). And who is the head of this association? Certain ruzzian Umar Kremlev. Due to his leadership IBA has been involved in several controversies. Including the supposed DNA test that they took of the Algerian boxer that apparently proved that she's a man. Of course, no official record of such test exists. Not to mention, no sports federation/association normally conducts such tests, at least I never heard of it. When questions started pouring about the legitimacy of this disqualification argument, IBA quickly changed their tune, now stating that "a special test was conducted, the nature of it cannot be revealed due to data privacy reasons". Lolol so now when it was time to produce proof, ruzzians suddenly care about GDPR. It's fair to say, all of it was bogus.

But why would ruzzians have beef with Algeria? Who knows. They genuinely dislike everyone, and given that ruzzia is a mafia state, maybe the South Korean and Algerian athletes would mess up their rigged games and sports bets. Ok, but let's play the devil's advocate and assume that Umar Kremlev is the only ruzzian in a position of power who cares about fairness and doing things by the book. Then the only reason why Imane got disqualified would be over-the-norm testosterone levels. It could very much be that IBA has stricter standards for substance use than IBF or Olympics.

The arguments I'm about to present are based on the knowledge of three people that I know: a professional basketball player, a former sports official for the government, and ye humble pee collect... ehm, professional doping tester.

Essentially, every athlete uses substances. Vitamins, certain performance drugs, protein, etc etc. Think of it as that one mate of yours who drinks protein powder after every gym session. Testosterone is a common substance for female athletes, because it enhances strength by improving muscle build and retention. That is why men are objectively physically stronger. So, testosterone is one of the substances that is heavily limited for female athletes. Additionally, sports federations and associations really do have different, sometimes stricter, normatives than Olympics. But that's where Kremlev-lead IBA argument is so fake: if Khelif really was over the limit of performance-enhancing substances, they could've simply stated that she used doping. Clearly, she did not.

But let's assume again that disqualification and prior Olympic failure caused her to pump herself with testosterone and beat her way to the gold. Her norm-breaking testosterone levels would soon get proved by regular doping tests that all athletes go through after every game. And she would get disqualified. Because even if she naturally produces more testosterone, that's still breaking the Olympic normatives and giving her the unfair advantage that other countries would soon Pterodactyl-scream over to protect the chances of their own athletes. This is why ruzzia cannot compete anymore - they doped too much and too often. Being genocidal war criminals is just a cherry on top. Their state-enforced pumping of doping was so severe and open and annoyingly bold, even slightly corrupt Olympic committee couldn't ignore it anymore.

So, if the Algerian boxer is overdoing with performance enhancing drugs, she will soon get disqualified and case will be closed.

But given the fact that russians have lied about her in the past and are now flooding social media with even more propaganda, and the fact that there is no proof whatsoever that she's not 100% biologically female, and the fact that this isn't even the first time that Italian boxer pulled "owie owie, it huwts" stunt during a match, it's fair to say that Imane Khelif is just a good boxer. Even Italian boxer's coach tried to justify her dying swan stunt by saying she has sinus issues, and that's why it hurt more. But I guess bitch had sinus issues for years, cause Imane is not her first victim.

So, to summarise, there are many falsehoods. Many of those are created by ruzzia, others are just spread by them to discredit the West, the Olympics, or the decent part of humanity in general. Ruzzians are doping-gulping, cheating, women-hating, propaganda-spreading assholes. Angela Carini should be banned from boxing for being unable to handle boxing itself. And Imane Khelif, a 100% biological woman, deserved that win.