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Appalachian Apocalypse: Censorship Is Alive And Well In America
And buried truth is about to become another casualty of this unprecedented natural disaster…
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect is alive and well at Fits”News”
“I could write all day about the root causes of our culture’s wholesale abandonment of truth – absence of faith, intellectual incuriosity, partisan blindness, ideological polarization, reflexive herd-think, artificial intelligence and the arrogant belief we can replace God…”
You already provide examples everyday of all of the above with your blog posts. You are describing yourself and your fellow MAGA cultists, who have replaced god with Trump, reality for lies and misinfo and have created division in society with violence, obstruction and forcing your crazy views on all other Americans with your corrupt Supreme Court.
You truly are dumb as fuck if you can’t see your role in what you project onto others.
“You truly are dumb as fuck if you can’t see your role in what you project onto others.”
And yet here you are again demonstrating your own cognitive bias while claiming to be decrying that of others. MSNBC needs more people in their echo chamber, why don’t you go join them?
I’m here at FitsNews, speak truth to Dunning-Krueger victims, like yourself. I don’t watch cable news, like FoxNews or MSNBC, like you.
Hardly an echo chamber, dipshit.
I get my entertainment from reading the ridiculous shit you MAGA nutters go on about. Like pretending to be victims of censorship and pretending to be “journalists”. Pretending to be tough, military boys who really know what’s going on (then you just puke out the exact same drivel your MAGA clones use).
MAGA media and its dumb as fuck fans are entertaining with their endless displays Dunning-Krueger. Keep them coming!
I guess I should thank you and your echo-chamber.
Have never voted for Trump and don’t have the patience for Fox. Have been cutting trees with my men’s ministry team since Helene reared her ugly little head. I’ve seen the damage first hand though I stopped at the SC / NC line. We’re still cutting here in Columbia and we made the conscious decision to serve our community first. Keep telling yourself about how great things are and how you have all the right ideas while the rest of us actually do the work. I ain’t a pretend anything.
Don’t forget to pray over your Trump Bibles with your ministry team!
The Colonel, in the absence of a “like” or “up-vote” button on here, please consider this your “up-votes” for all posts on this thread!
Thank you FitsNews, for reporters like Mr Fancher and Mr Nolan, and their work to bring us news that other sources only cover up.
Reporters?
Kids doing blog posts are not reporters.
I just looked outside and the sky is blue. Now I’m a reporter!
Outstanding piece.
Still blaming censorship for your lack of readers ;-)
My brain censors Drunkle all the time. I think it’s a self-defense mechanism, I start reading his drivel and the brain immediately goes into recovery mode from the long walls of text whining about transgender people non stop. For a guy complaining about safe spaces, he sure needs a safe space a lot.
I’ve been reading all the comments on this article and they are concerning. I am beyond shocked by the number of delusional people who spew out complete nonsense. The problem is that sooo many people can’t or don’t sift through the crap so the nonsense keeps perpetuating.
Let’s get this straight, because the delusions of the FitsNews’ staff are getting out of hand.
No one at FitsNews is a journalist.
That would require education and a dedication to the facts. FitsNews is a MAGA political blog that constantly posts misinfo and lies. Sending some random nobody to talk to a few locals is not journalism. You posted right in your blog that many places are inaccessible and communications are spotty at best. Authorities have a policies they must follow before announcing a death to the public.
Facebook most likely lumps FitsNews in with other sources of misinfo. Your MAGA peers keep getting busted for spreading Russian misinfo, posts members of FitsNews staff amplify on their social media, so who can blame Facebook for doing their job.
“No one at FitsNews is a journalist.”
To stop the fun Fits-bashing circlejerk for a moment, Will -used- to be a journalist. This site did have some very good articles back in the day, like what, 10 years ago? I mean sure, he posted porn or porn-adjacent pictures, he did the whole Nikki Haley affair book arc which honestly felt kinda cringe, but he also used to give an inside look into stuff in the government that actually read legit.
I’d even venture to say that Will -still is- a journalist, occasionally. While the whole Murdaugh thing nearly rose to Nancy Grace levels on this blog at times, and there was a fair amount of Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V fluff in posts, this site put out regular information and was actually interesting to read for the most part. This includes the boating incident and stuff before Alec went Rambo. Likewise I do think his coverage of Helene has been decent as well, despite the tone-deaf, taunting Mother Nature “hurricanes went bust” post a while back.
It’s important to write all of that in defense of him because, well… It’s being honest. It’s “giving the devil his due” so to speak. But more than anything, it highlights what Will *could* be doing with this blog. He could be reporting facts instead of spreading misinformation. He could be objective instead of being a Trump lackey. He could be doing real journalism instead of grifting. I don’t think he’s -going- to be a real journalist running this blog though, because, well, it probably doesn’t pay enough. Not on its own.
Honestly though the allegations he’s getting money under the table have always been there. He’s always reposted Ron Paul content, so maybe he’s unknowingly been given Russian money for a long time now. Maybe I’m just fond of the Howard Rich days.
The damage in our own state has been widely underreported. Students in the western corner of the state have just (barely) returned to school and some are now attending other schools as their own was too badly damaged to use. I can’t speak for outside of SC but Helene’s effects will be seen for a long while to come.
Colonel,
What is underreported? Underreported by who and why? Do you think we are all stupid? Do you think we haven’t all seen the flood pictures and videos of Asheville, Bat Cave, Lake Lure, Chemney Rock, etc. etc,? Do you think we have not listened to the news articles about all the damage and carnage happening in western SC and NC? Maybe you think we have not heard the pleas from the Red Cross, our local churches, and other charities for donations. Of course, we know schools are still closed. Hell App State is still closed. Lees McRea will probably not reopen until next year. We saw the Reedy River flooding in Downtown Greenville. What are you trying to convince us we don’t know? It is going to take years to rebuild. We all know that. Stop playing into MAGA conspiracy theory that somehow the public has been kept in the dark, for some nefarious reason. It’s just nonsense. Its just Trumpspeak.
Tom, reading is fundamental – when was the last time you saw a story about damage here in SC? That’s what I was talking about. I’m all too aware that Ap is closed – we’re taking some students here to finish their semester but most of our colleges in the upstate were closed for a week and a half or more. The state house is debating how the time public school students lost will be made up. And WIS / WLTX and company haven’t really addressed any of it in more than a week. I have a son doing assessments today for the State in FL but beyond his safety I ain’t real concerned about Florida.
Greenville has a years worth of work ahead to get back to normal and that’s just the beginning.
The bottom line is you are upset Facebook didn’t allow you to post a completely unverified number. You called it the “single most accurate report yet” but it’s just feelings.
Will would have us believe Zuck is some space alien dweeb being forced to do the bidding of Democrats and suppress right wing media on all fronts.
The reality is that the site automates a ton of features to the point where those features are incredibly broken or barely function, then Zuck, the space alien dweeb, gets to lay off workers and pocket more money for his little richer-than-God weirdo compound in Hawaii, or more accurately, burning money on that stupid brain fart Metaverse.
In this case, either Facebook’s algorithm already has it out for Fits (lol) or the AI saw literally one thing it didn’t like and went scorched earth. Will can rest assured that his complaint has been printed directly into the paper shredder as nearly all appeals on Facebook either go right back to the AI algorithm that ruled against you, or to some underpaid work-from-home dude playing World of Warcraft and just clicking reject enough times to meet quota.
Capitalism, ho!
Is it any surprise that a MAGA blogger gets flagged for posting misinfo on Facebook?
At least Facebook is doing something to curb the lies that these weirdos live off of.
Andy did a GREAT job with his article. I have been following a lot of people with videos backing up what they were saying. The citizens who have played such a HUGE part in helping so many people are life savers — from the citizen helicopter pilots to the mules to organizations like Samaritan’s Purse, Mercury 1, Cajun Navy 2016. It has been a true blessing to see the kind of love for those in desperate need that has been being displayed time and time again.
And, then I come here and read comments that are spewing political garbage!!! They have absolutely NO care for fellow citizens who are in dire straits because of a catastrophe. There is no compassion for those who are suffering. What a pity!!!
Mina Harrington, too bad they don’t have a “like” or “upvote” button on here because if they did, you, and a few others, would get one from me.
Consider this your up-vote”.
There used to be upvote buttons, but comments criticizing and calling FitsNews out on its BS got all the upvotes.
Yes, Mina Harrington, the over-the-top ignorant screed coming from Get real, dumbf**, Anonymous, and Oh,Please shows the ugliness and mendacity of their “character” and also shows that FITS must be doing a lot of good to excite so much hatred.
Kudos on another excellent example of REAL reporting!
Real DEAL, likewise, consider this your up-vote.
Trust in “authorities” is very strong in some. This trust is misplaced but is understandable considering few are able to break out of the state indoctrination they suffered during their formative years. When “authorities” speak these people’s ears perk and they begin to salivate much as Palov’s shepherds did decades ago.
To this we can add the tribal element where any contradiction of their tribal “authorities” is met with demonization and ad homonym attacks. In this case anyone who does not parrot the MSM and ruling clowns line is labeled MAGA nut jobs despite what reality stares them in the face.
Anyone who dares to objectively study history understands that government lies more then it speaks truth. Reality and common sense teaches us to never trust government and always question everything they say and do but that becomes impossible to those blinded by the brainwashing they have been subjected too. This leaves them with their heads in the sand and asses in the air.
In the end these victims become the foot soldiers of the machine that cares nothing about them. They become the brown shirts of old and the “useful idiots” uncle Joe finally slaughtered during his little revolution of lies.
Ignore the Non Playing Characters (NPC’s) and get on with the quest for what is true.
lol
You must be one lonely dork.
How comforting it must be to know that all the scientists, all the government officials, all the economists, all the teachers, college professors, and members of the press are lying to you and out to get you; but you have a source for the real truth, and it just happens to come in the form of a lifelong conman, who has cheated or screwed over everyone he has ever been in contact with, including his three wives.
I’m not sure if this is brain death, or if you are just an easily duped cult member.
Jeff Mattox, in the absence of a “like” or “up-vote” button, consider this as your up-vote”.
I applaud your dedication to authentic truth. Your numbers are not exaggerated, they are not even representing half of the people killed and missing, in my opinion. I lived through the storm and haven’t left my mountain, I have been helping people less capable and prepared than myself.
I am a trained anthropologist and I interview everybody even if they don’t feel like they are interviewed and I can decipher that your number of dead count is not even close to the real numbers, you are way under estimating the loss.
I wonder if the cover up will ever allow the truth to come out. Is the information control of the “powerful” capable of keeping us from believing what we see and smell in front of us?
People right here in these communities, insulated by the walls of their remaining comfortable houses and believing the absolutely false narrative that is spoon fed to them like refined sugar-refrain from knowing the truth and actually, put effort into supporting the dishonoring lies.
The people that lost their lives and their families surviving their loss, at least, should be honored by the recognition of their tragic passing.
Thank you for taking on the herculean challenge of presenting the truth in the face of the powerful controllers.
The North Carolina Mountain Man,
Eustace Conway