(February 12, 2018 at 4:01 am)Whateverist Wrote:(February 12, 2018 at 3:55 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: I hate Trump too, but it doesn't mean I'm going to forego the truth for it. This thread and that media source aren't true. There are lots of real things to hate Trump over.
*my bold*
I'm doing my best to get to all of them. If I miss any it's just because I still want to have a life, not because I don't thoroughly despise the guy.
There is a problem though when people automatically believe something because they don't like a guy. It's a faulty chain of logic. You saw it heavily with the right and Obama. I.e. Obama is really a Muslim or Obama was born in Kenya. People were automatically believing all that nonsense because they were willing to believe anything bad about him cause they didn't like his politics already.
Now left wing people are just doing the exact same thing with no fact checking at all. For example this story doesn't say that Trump can't read a ten page memo at all. But people are believing it because they are just willing to believe anything negative said about Trump.
As an atheist, that is not the way I think, not the chain of logic that I follow. I fact check my own beliefs regularly, despite my personal distain for Trump, or the nonsense of people accusing me of being a Trump supporter because I don't automatically believe every ill supported thing said about him.
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