This is how the cookie will crumble

@trollslayer that tells you all you need to know about that person.

@trollslayer i saw someone comment a few days ago that fact checking is fake news.
Facts and Truth have gone over a cliff like Thelma and Louise. I don't know if things will ever go back to any sense of normalcy.

@robingoodfellow "Fake news" once had a definition of news that was an intentional lie for purposes of misleading. It didn't include news that had the typical "political slant/bias". The focus was mostly on international actors or domestic troublemakers like Alex Jones.

Back in 2016, the focus came on right-leaning "fake news" because the majority of it was intentional lies to support the Trump campaign, without saying that the Trump campaign was involved in the creation of such fake news. MAGA folks took offense and bastardized the term and now use it to describe any news they disagree with or any news that has the typical political slant against their cause.

FYI, I was social media free until the summer of 2016, when I broke down and joined Facebook in order to keep in touch with family as that was the only way they communicated anymore. The political posts being shared at the time were a big shock to me. One of the first ones I saw was a post showing a large concrete wall traversing a desert, with the caption that this was the wall along Mexico's southern border, and if Mexico has such a wall, why can't we? My BS meter went through the roof because I know the southern border of Mexico is not in a desert! There is no wall there. Barely a chain link fence, and Google Earth can easily confirm this. Yet, this post had been shared and liked tens of thousands of times! I immediately wondered who was creating and spreading this stuff - and about two weeks later we started hearing about "fake news" and "Russian Troll Farms".

@Ontheroad I agree. I know it says MSGT on my retired ID and that is what his has listed as well.

@Sojournersoul I see it both ways. He was, except for completing probably SGM/CSM academy, picked for and given the rank of CSM.

That in itself is an honor bestowed on and earned by less that 1% of career enlisted.

So yeah, I get why people use the honorarium, but it isn't technically right.

@Ontheroad he chose not to complete the required course work and to retired as an E8. Just wanted your opinion.

@Ontheroad what you think doesn’t make it truth , it’s makes it an opinion

@Prison1203

Testing ideas with evidence from the natural world is at the core of science. Scientific testing involves figuring out what we would expect to observe if an idea were correct and comparing that expectation to what we actually observe.

Like I said, you got nothing, and goign on and on is you trying to disprove what you don't agree with (what is not you).

So yeah, adios.

@Ontheroad no, I’m providing you with facts, sorry that you can’t handle the truth as presented to you, so from what I understand from you is that you determine what you think is truth as compared to what the real truth is , there is a difference between truth and opinion

@iamonfire696 nope, not a chance in hell! Ya gotta have cells to regenerate🤣