Brendan's been doing this for a while but I'm not sure I fully appreciated it until yesterday when my Dad said, "FOX and CNN are different worlds and their both full of shit so who has any idea?" Decades of deliberately cultivating distrust has paid off for Fox and the GOP.https://twitter.com/BrendanNyhan/status/1202230396013948928 …
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This isn't a revelation, it's anecdote. But seeing it happen to my Dad is some heavy shit. CNN has layers of bullshit as a function of their profit motive and ensuing format, but yea — there is no symmetry here and people reaching for one is the whole damn exploit.
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So homie guess who was at Dartmouth for way too long and did not IRL holler at Nyhan. <points to self> THIS LOSER, THAT’S WHO.
I mean look if “ohai can we brain-fart IRL” is not a good way to do life I do not know what is. 
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