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Related: About this forumTell me the fart thing is a joke. What is "truthdig.com"?
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/worlds_largest_fart-in_planned_for_hillary_clintons_acceptance_speech_in_phOrdinarily I would just assume this was a joke, but with all the stupidity going around, who knows?
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Tell me the fart thing is a joke. What is "truthdig.com"? (Original Post)
YouDig
Jun 2016
OP
I love it when (relatively) newbs complain about how DU ain't what it used to be.
Electric Monk
Jun 2016
#5
Ignorance is thinking you can tell how long a poster has been here from their profile. nt
Live and Learn
Jun 2016
#10
Response to YouDig (Original post)
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Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)5. I love it when (relatively) newbs complain about how DU ain't what it used to be.
Ahh, the good old days, when we were for taxing the rich and against fighting more stupid wars for profit...
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)6. Perhaps if you would have joined a little earlier
you would realize how ignorant that post us.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)10. Ignorance is thinking you can tell how long a poster has been here from their profile. nt
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)2. That'll put another crack in the Liberty Bell.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)3. It's like YouDig, only more credible.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)4. So does that mean it's a real thing? No way. Really?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,711 posts)7. It does read like something from The Onion.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)8. Truthdig is Chris Hedges' site.
So this appears to be legit. Hedges is, or at least was, a serious journalist, so dunno why he is involved with this stupidity. He is a GREAT writer when he wants to be. Sad.
http://www.truthdig.com/staff/chris_hedges#bio
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)9. Of course it's a joke.
Common sense is far too uncommon, it seems.