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The (far) right already has its own, often nonsensical, version of truth, and everything else flows from that. When they encounter something that is contrary to their truth, they reject or avoid it, requiring an alternative that is consistent. Fox News is the obvious example but it naturally just keeps on spreading. It's not by accident that conservative talk shows mostly sell miracle cures in their advertising.

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It's not limited to the far right. It's the far-{insert group here} (left, socialist, capitalist, activist, whatever). It's the extremist mindset that has all that. As the centrist meme says, "I just want to grill."

Pointing sides is useless and perpetuating a problem, there is no longer any paragons of objective truth in MSM.

The far left isn't much better, but the right just happens to be particularly crazy. I'm hardly picking sides. Your attack on "MSM" is picking sides though.

How so?

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