Can we stop using the term "fake news"? ( pizzagate )

submitted by IUsedToLikePizza

Why don't we call it what it really is? Propaganda. Calling it "fake news", at least to me, takes away the gravity of what it is: a disinformation campaign by the government and news corporations trying to indoctrinate American citizens.

reasonedandinformed

EDIT: Please copy-and-paste the message below on extrenal platforms as it avoids the mention of "pizzagate" in the effort to dodge overt censorship and shadowbans:

Go to https://voat.co/v/pizzagate for #RealNews to #SaveTheKids

IUsedToLikePizza

I...Uhh... posted this there/here...

reasonedandinformed

It was meant as a copy-and-paste item to place elsewhere. I am editing.

HarveyKlinger

I only use it to mock the MSM. Don't take away one of the few things that still brings me pleasure.

ShadowHelp

Couldn't agree more, this is going to make for some great memes.

HugoWeavingII

Seconded! I use it to troll MSM...plus the more we use it, the less power it holds. Like the n/f/d words. (D is Democrat)

IUsedToLikePizza

Oh God, please don't tell me it actually holds power for some people? As a Canadian I never have to see a Hillary shill in the wild so I'very just been pretending that that don't actually exist.

IUsedToLikePizza

Haha, well I suppose if it's being used ironically then I actually understand. Admittedly that may have gone over my head and I thought people here were using the term seriously. Carry on then!

Edit: forgot a word

AdVict0riam

No way, it's hilarious.

Prevent-1984

Well we are just quoting the MSM, which now calls most of the information that they do not agree with "fake news." We know that most of what they say is not "fake" as in not real, but instead propaganda. We are just using their blanket term on them as a way of opposing what they say about what information alternative media spreads. Most people who say "fake news" when talking about the MSM know that they do not mean that. In professional rhetoric, of course, we should not call it simply fake news.

IUsedToLikePizza

That makes sense, I guess the term just irks me. Sort of how I don't like the term Pizzagate, it sounds absurd and makes outsiders immediately think that it's ridiculous and that we wear tinfoil hats. I think if we called it Government Officials Raping Children then people would take it more seriously. It doesn't quite have the same ring to it, though. It speaks volumes that MSM doesn't even use professional rhetoric anymore. In my opinion it really says a lot about them trying to dumb down the masses.

Prevent-1984

I think we should call it PedoGate, as a YouTuber I watch thinks so, but Pizzagate has unfortunately caught on as the popular phrase.

IUsedToLikePizza

I partially agree, anything but the "pizza" naming. I know it started with pizza stores but as we all know it extends so far beyond that. Although I also hate calling conspiracies ___-gate. I mean, Watergate, where the term came from, actually took place at place called Watergate, with "gate" actually in the name of it. But now we slap "gate" on any scandal, which when you dig down to the root of it makes no sense.

Prevent-1984

that is true

isthisreality

Global Pedophile Network - Government Kid Raping - man, ANYTHING but pizzagate. I definitely feel you on that.