Gript-A source of misinformation. **Read OP before posting**

Well they do so your point is invalid!

Overused, but still relevant.

A news site would, yes.

A propaganda outlet not so much.

Still waiting for Gript to cover Satchwell......"invalid" my arsè.

So they dont report actual news then good you admit it.

That was broadcast in 2021

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/early-irish-people-were-dark-skinned-with-blue-eyes-documentary-1.4541124

Why do you have enemies?

I don't consider other humans my enemies. I am not at war with anybody.

Why is your post filed with anger and aggression to other humans.

Do you consider other Irish people to be your enemies?

Are they boards users you consider you enemies?

Very violent concerning tone to this post.

That's a long reply when you could have just written "I'm prone to conspiratorial thinking and don't want to admit it".

Some basic errors and fallacies:

1. Most university degrees don't actually teach critical thinking
2. Gript aren't an 'enemy', they're just people who the education system has let down and have fallen to the perils of social media, and have realised they can gain something by preying on others like them.
3. We don't need to read Gript to know how the far-right thinks or works, there's a strong pathology to it across Europe and North America. Of course, knowing that would involve actually reading useful information, synthesising knowledge, and gaining wisdom.
4. Gript don't teach history and don't have any respectable historians on their staff to the best of my knowledge.
5. The fact that you use the word 'consume' is important. You're tacitly admitting that you gorge on it uncritically. Yes, we shouldn't uncritically consume far-right nonsense. That's not the 'mainstream media' saying that, it's psychologists, sociologists, academics in general as well as anyone with a shred of empathy, compassion and wisdom.
6. A parent telling their child they shouldn't be taking life-lessons from a friend who's already involved in gangland criminality and has been arrested and charged multiple times: You: "THE CHILD SHOULDN'T JUST LISTEN TO THE 'GOOD GUYS' AND BY WHO THEY'RE TOLD ARE THE GOOD GUYS". Someone going to genuine neo-nazi events: "THEY SHOULDN'T JUST LISTEN TO THE 'GOOD GUYS' AND BY WHO THEY'RE TOLD ARE THE GOOD GUYS".
7. Gript isn't 'history', again. Do you not even know what history is? That would explain a lot.
8. You've just plain never heard a wise man or woman (why not just 'person' or is that modern for you?) by the sounds of it.
9. No-one is trying to 'control' you, that's the conspiratorial thinking again.

The good news is, the underlying factors that lead to conspiratorial thinking are things that respond well to therapy, just as an FYI. Interestingly, so are the underlying traits that lead to far-right support.

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2023/06/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories

https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/resources/key-consepts-and-questions/what-are-the-psychological-characteristics-of-people-holding-far-right-beliefs.html

Mod Edit: Warned for attacking the poster

I subscribe to the Irish Times even though they're a perpetual mouthpiece for Michael McDowell and pretty much anything anti-public transport, anti-cyclist and anti-SF. The difference is I don't believe they're on some sort of mission from God to save us from nefarious (but nebulous) masterminds trying to control us via the mainstream media - so I can disregard what I find biased or to be based on poor factual underpinnings (like pretty much anything by David McWilliams, sorry!), just as you do with The Economist. Financial Times is similar to The Economist in terms of a NeoLiberal bent but also posting really critical and informative pieces.

Gript? No.

It's actually hilarious to watch this thread, and a bunch of loons freaking out about a glorified blog, all because they can't even countenance the thought that the government and a mere 99% of the media outlets fully support their cracked ideology.
Imagine how little genuine belief these people must have in that ideology, if they lose their mind about a tiny outlet like Gript, which clearly must be destroyed due to the threat a lone dissenting voice in the media presents to their grand project of deconstructing this nation. This would suggest to me that their belief that they are on the 'right side of history' can't really be all that strong. Not if a dissenting opinion from a glorified blog presents such an existential threat.

Mod Edit: Warned for being a dick

Ah here !!

The bould Michael would be devastated to think someone hasn't heard of him 🙂

Seriously though I find his column well worth a read.

It's not that I always agree with him but he always has an interesting slant on things.

Your very first point clearly shows you don't understand what I was talking about.

Maybe you're in the minority who hasn't been to university because if you had been then you would know that a lot of critical thinking happens when students socialise, not necessarily in the classroom.

Point 4 and 7 - you don't even seem to understand that I'm reply to another poster about an analogy.

Point 6 - Again you seem to not understand my point about getting a rounded perspective on all matters, and have instead applied some bizarre situation about gangs in order to prove we shouldn't get a rounded view of the world.

Point 8 - just looking for anything to misrepresent. Shows you are not sincerely having a discussion.

Anyway, your post has been reported because I don't think it's civil to label posters or tell them they need therapy.

You are on my ignore list too. So no need to waste your time.

Mod Edit: Warning issued for backseat modding