Ten Bobsworth wrote:Isn't it interesting that no-one seems interested, except you and I Sluffy? I honestly don't know how folk can endlessly pursue mind-numbing trivia and ignore this kind of stuff.
Forget Iles, what was going through SKD's head to come out with this bizarre accusation? Who was putting these ideas into his head and how come he couldn't see through it all? Doesn't it almost beggar belief?
Each to their own I guess Bob, what we find interesting is clearly not what most others do.
I think the bottom line is that some of us like to understand things for ourselves whereas others are simply quite happy to take the word of someone else to be the truth of the matter.
In my case at least, that is why I find it incomprehensible how vast numbers of people, millions and millions of them worldwide, clearly believe what they read on social media to be true without question???
I guess there must be something about our make up, upbringing, education, professional training, personal values, integrity, inquisitive nature, healthy scepticism, temperament and probably many other factors that make us look and evaluate things in a way that most others do not?
I don't know what it is really but to me, it somehow seems people simply lack general common sense.
I mean look at the USA where something like 70% of Republicans believed the election was 'rigged' and Trump really won, or that weirdo in Plymouth somehow believed it was women's fault he was still a virgin and that give him the right somehow to shoot a little 3 year old dead - I mean wtf???
How many people believed/still believe the QAnon bollocks, loads believe that Covid vaccinations are some sort of way of controlling people or some such nonsense, so is it any wonder that loads of people believe 'tame' stuff that Iles, the ST and SKD spout - which clearly doesn't stand up to any actual scrutiny?
I've given up a long time back about trying to put people straight about things and have for sometime now simply state the facts, give links to what I say and give them an opportunity to be better informed - but I know even just doing that is just a waste of my time as most are happy to believe I'm the crank, not the Trumps or Marc Iles (or any other social media 'influencer you'd care to name).
It's how it is I'm afraid.
For the record I stood alone on here when I said Anderson had not raped and pillaged the club and was running the club in accordance with the law.
The fact is that two years after he left no one has found anything he has done that was illegal.
Similarly I stood alone on here again when I said Tory Covid cronyism could not have occurred simply because it is civil servants who award contracts and not politicians.
Again the fact is that 18 months on, not one case of cronyism/corruption has even been strong enough to be taken to the police, let alone been proved as actually happened.
I remember being open to ridicule on here when TROY pointed out that who should people believe, Maugham a QC, tweeting such was going on or an has been former provincial local authority employee on a footy forum!
Well I'm still waiting to see Maugham land the first blow despite all his numerous stories of innuendo and many thousand twitter disciples following his every word.
I won't be holding my breath that he ever will too!
It's all pretty pointless really, it's water under the bridge with SKD, people will still believe social media without question, nobody will change their minds that Anderson was a crook and the Tory government is corrupt but if any of them even casually looked to see what the basic facts where/are, they could see for themselves that they believed something from social media that simply wasn't true.
That's the way it simply is these days Bob.