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Indeed–sorry. I've rarely ever gone to either of these places and seemed to remember some hyperbolic headlines from the campaign.

I'm pretty sure I've seen some cringe-worthy publications on the left as well, but it's certainly more common on the right.



there are cringe worthy publications on the left. Huffington Post, The Young Turks, Jezebel, etc. They are hyper-partisan, screechy, shrill, unreasonable, gossipy, (nearly) empty spectacles in their own right but I don't know of a single one of them that is even halfway as far off the deep end of "motherfuckin lizard people aliens are running satanic child sex slave rings out of a pizza restaurant" that the infowars style conspiracy stuff gets into.

and Mother Jones is nowhere even on that axis. it's a higher quality publication with a deliberate (and publicly announced) editorial bias.


    >I don't know of a single one of them that is even halfway as far off the deep end of "motherfuckin lizard 
Give them like three years. I'm sure we'll see something like "Trump is secretly a Russian child smuggler".




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