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    Which is funny because everything I’ve heard about him is that he was a huge prick.

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        That reminds me of when I tried to watch the Hilary Clinton one on Netflix and the intro was just like five minutes of her shit talking Bernie Sanders and his supporters, and then the intro song was a punk song by The Interrupters. I wanted to throw the fuck up.

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            Yeah I shut it off after that. It was clear to me that this wasn’t going to be an informative documentary.

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                Yeah Netflix does that more than you’d think. I watched a doc on China once on there that I THINK was a Netflix original (I can’t remember quite) and I’ve read a lot of books on China in my world politics and economics reading club. That doc was a combination of misleading to PURE FICTION at times that was branded as a straight dry documentary about Chinese economics. It’s annoying to watch these because I KNOW that you could just have the same effect if you wanted to by just telling the story with all the failures China has seen and just ignoring the successes, but I guess the half truths mixed in with lies strategy just must be more effective, especially when you have the capital and influence to put out whole documentaries like that. Lord knows 99.99 percent of North Americans aren’t gonna read about that shit.

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                  That doesn’t surprise me that it’s common on Netflix. I’m going to be even more vigilant now with everything going on in the world.

                  That technique of mixing half truths in is pretty effective. Our news media enjoys that technique often, if not exclusively.

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                    What I don’t understand with many people that I’ve talked to is that I can show them a blatant lie mixed in with the truths and instead of being like “well I will no longer trust this media source” they instead turn around and make excuses for that lie and then keep using that source. I don’t get it. I’ve always been deeply offended when I’ve been lead to believe a lie by any news source. I’ve totally changed my entire political stance from my twenties (as a hard line economic conservative) all the way to now, being 35 and about as economically left as they come. This has come almost unilaterally from being pissed off at being lied to by media sources and books Ive read and turned onto sources that I can at some level verify they aren’t lying. And it really isn’t that hard if you just cut out every source that lies even a little bit to you.

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                Also if you’re interested in what the Hilary Clinton one was it’s called Hillary on Netflix and apparently it’s a docuseries. I didn’t get past the first intro theme.

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      Wait wait wait, hold up. You’re telling me the CEO of an insurance company was a huge prick? Nah, there’s no way, I don’t believe you. That’s simply not possible.

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        Nah they’re all great guys! Anything else anyone tries to tell you is all liberal communist propaganda