Cognitive Dissonance is Cognitivey: Right Wing Facebook edition
If you're like me and have Facebook, you'll have several right wing "friends" that for whatever reason you keep on your feed. Maybe they're family members, maybe you manage to overlook their politics, or maybe you just keep them on for shits and giggles. Whatever.
However, you'll frequently find your Right Wing Facebook Friends post garbage from some really awful, pathetic right wing Facebook groups. Most of it is "news" that can be easily debunked by Snopes. Other stuff is subtly or not subtly racist or bigoted garbage.
Anyways, this one group got posted up on my feed, and me having an extreme morbid curiosity, I decided to check it out.
And then I came across this, which was just too classic not to share. Mind you, these two posts from this one group, posted right on top of one another, were posted the exact same day.
It's like they don't even stop to think about what they say to see if it makes sense before they say it.
(In case that's hard to read, the first post says: "So someone shoots up a church and kills 9 people....What does America do? THEY BLAME A (Confederate) FLAG....Not the guy who pulled the trigger.....A FLAG."
And the second post from that same day reads, "Saying the American flag is "just a piece of fabric" is like saying a $100 bill is "just a piece of paper". What it represents is what really matters."
= new reply since forum marked as read
But it pains me to have friends and family who repeatedly post things that are so easily refuted with Snopes and other sites. I have one friend that frequently posted utter nonsense that seemed phony on the face of it. I referred her to Snopes so many times I lost count! 
I finally just gave up, made sure I don't see some of the ultra conservative things she posts and my blood pressure is much better. LOL. One has to choose one's battles in these situations....sigh...
