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Originally Posted by Flint
You totally missed the point, then.
Somebody, somewhere, actually chooses what is shown on the news. This part, you have no control over.
Your reaction, this discussion, and everything else is completely based on the fact that this was ON THE NEWS TO BEGIN WITH. I ask again. Have you been manipulated? I'm not questioning your ability to interpret a news story. I'm questioning whether this was news to begin with.
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I read the opening post Flint. I read the article and saw the site at which the article is posted. I also read your post addressed directly to Jill.
She may have missed your point. I certainly missed your point. I contend that the reason the point was missed is that you don't really make that point in your post. It is LOUDLY proclaiming about how she came to HEAR about it, and lots OF OTHER STUFF about her state of mind, ESPECIALLY about being MANIPULATED, etc., etc. The point "is this news?" is never made in your first post. That's why it was missed.
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And you just so happen to some by the knowledge that this happened. Insignificant as you admit it is, you just happen to have heard about it. Not as though you had time to comb through a massive catalogue of the day's events from around the world, is it? Something more like, you turned on the TV/Radio or opened a newspaper and this OUTRAGE this BLOOD-BOILING OUTRAGE just, coincidentally (because nobody really plans what's in the news, do they?) just coincidentally happened to enter into your conciousness and induce this MOTHERFUCKING OUTRAGE AT THESE GODDAMN BASTARDS WHO ARE AT IT AGAIN!!!1 But of course you're not being manipulated or anything. You CHOSE to know about this, right? This pointless event which means nothing to you, and couldn't have possibly had any substantive effect on anything, ever. You CHOSE (right?) to be SO GODDAMN OUTRAGED at this non-event that there was no purpose in you hearing about. But of course, you're not being manipulated.
Right?
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You even go so far as contradict yourself in your following post.
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I ask again. Have you been manipulated?
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I'm not questioning your ability to interpret a news story.
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Which one is it? Are you asking if she's been manipulated or are you confident in her ability to interpret news stories? Contradiction.
But as for your complaint about your point, this question:
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I'm questioning whether this was news to begin with.
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does not show up in your first post. No one can get a point you don't make man.