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The sad state of affairs regarding the gullibility of people to buy into bogus crap perpetrated by trolls too many to count is galling but, as the great, late George Carling so often said, They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. 

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Meet the Shitposter Who Started a Right-Wing Moral Panic About the Snickers Dick Vein

Juniper is very open about her posts being fake news — but this isn’t the first time they’ve gone viral

To whit.

The pinned tweet on Juniper’s account is “it’s incredibly easy to create fake news it’s actually ridiculous lol.” But that hasn’t stopped right-wing media outlets from frothing at the mouth over her tweets, most recently a fake news headline indicating that Snickers was set to remove the beloved “dick vein” from its eponymous candy bars.

George Carlin

I rest my case.