Seth CotlarDec 19, 2022
The NYTimes today published a piece showing that this newly elected GOP Congressman from NY fabricated most of the life story he told on the campaign trail. The fact that this statement on his behalf ends with a fake Churchill quote is just...I mean come on now...if I wrote it in a piece of fiction you'd give me a stern talking to about how hamfisted that detail was.
Show threadBlanding S TurtleDec 19, 2022

@sethcotlar Nobody checked the guy's history until after the election?

Had the race been for county clerk or dog catcher, understandable. But US Congress? How does this happen?

Is local journalism actually dead?

Show threadJetStreamDec 19, 2022
@peatbog @sethcotlar unfortunately, the culture in US is trending more towards packaging and presenting rather than benchmarking and demonstrating. This is not just true in elections but also in other places, such as college application. Social media boosts this notion that what all matter is what other “think” or “perceive” who are. What you really are doesn’t matter in those situations. It is sad in a way that the society values more on superficial not substance
Show threadBlanding S Turtle

@harryhy @sethcotlar
You're describing a world with Lucifer openly in charge and mass murder soon to follow.

Anyone with the power to make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Dec 19, 2022 at 11:27pmWeb