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@Cierzo: A farmer in Iowa, talking politics should be taken seriously. Trump built his brand, on the words of farmers from Iowa, among other places. So, if he wants to complain about it, he should look within. Why should Trump, using his name as a reality TV personality, be taken more (or less) seriously than Meryl Streep, who is an actress, but an activist as well. Why would any person's profession preclude them from being activists.

When he began his campaign, Trump was bragging about how did not have to spend on advertising, because the media was following him around, not because they thought he was a serious contender, but because they thought he was an interesting media phenomenon. He cannot have his cake and eat it too.

For instance, Trump did not mind it, when he invited the press to provide his position on the Obama birthplace issue. He spent 31 seconds on that, and 30+ minutes, promoting his new hotel.

Of course there is an industry producing fake news. What do you call Breitbart? What do you call that site, promoting a fake news story, that our Ambassador to Lybia, was tortured for 7 hours, gang raped and burned to death, and they published fake pictures to go with that story? the proprietor of that web site, has been appointed to the Trump White House, as his primary advisor.

There are people in Eastern Europe, who make a living creating fake 'Hillary' news. Google it, and if you cannot find it, I will be more than happy to provide references.

@Northwest: And how do you know that these news about this 'fake news industry' are real? Because it's NY Times who says it?
This is one of the tragedies of our time, that nothing we read can be truly believed

@Cierzo: I don't understand this question. The fake news industry, is documented by those who are in it. They're not shy about talking about it. It is reported on. I use and collect ad data, and how this works is simple: the ad provider does not care what the content is. It provides the content provider with a piece of computer code, that they insert in their web site. This is what's driving the ads you see on SW, and SW has very little control over it.

At some, people are capable of using their brains. Some don't.

@Cierzo: That is the logical outcome a diverse society. In a multi-ethnical or multi-racial society people will vote according to their ethnicity or race. That's the way it is. If you want ideology policits (conseratives, liberals, socialists and so on), then have a homogenous society.

Some black students there want to "decolonise" their universities and are demanding the removal of statues of white men like Cecil Rhodes. Some students even demanded that science must be dropped from the curiculum because it is Western and not African.

@Mugin16: That's why I support ethnostates. These SA students should better have their own state,community or whatever when they can only study African disciplines. And leave the rest of us alone.

@Cierzo: I agree regarding ethnostates. As somebody said: "Ethnically homogenous states are carved out of multi-national empires." See Austria-Hungary, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and lots of other examples further back.

Admittedly, South Africa is now the country of these black students and they will take over the universities there. Of course if they prefer African witchcraft over European/Western science, their country will go to hell but that is their choice.