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The Shallow State: Forget the conspiracy theories. Something much more dangerous is seeking to gut our government and change the character of our society.

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The shallow state, on the other hand, is unsettling because not only are the signs of it ever more visible but because its influence is clearly growing. It is made scarier still because it not only actively eschews experience, knowledge, relationships, insight, craft, special skills, tradition, and shared values but because it celebrates its ignorance of and disdain for those things. Donald Trump, champion and avatar of the shallow state, has won power because his supporters are threatened by what they don’t understand, and what they don’t understand is almost everything. Indeed, from evolution to data about our economy to the science of vaccines to the threats we face in the world, they reject vast subjects rooted in fact in order to have reality conform to their worldviews. They don’t dig for truth; they skim the media for anything that makes them feel better about themselves. To many of them, knowledge is not a useful tool but a cunning barrier elites have created to keep power from the average man and woman. The same is true for experience, skills, and know-how. These things require time and work and study and often challenge our systems of belief. Truth is hard; shallowness is easy.

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Remind you of anybody?

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DHS Uncovers Massive Plot To Immigrate Here, Establish Multi-Generation Families, ...

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It's terrible what they are doing, such long range planning.Enjoy

WTF? They could have done the same video with the Irish, Italians, Jews, Chine's..etc.

A few people saying some things is probably of less value than the collated statements from all law enforcement. The latter results in statistics. The former is prone to an individual's bias. Given the fact there is too much good reason for the videos to be faked to validate the right-wing narrative over fears of immigration, it's at best a wash. Let's take a look again then, shall we? "Sweden Before And After Mass Immigration" by Blot-Sven OdenskarlIt shows peaceful traditional practices contrasted with scenes of violence. It doesn't give any idea on how many scenes of violence there were before, nor does it comment on the peaceful traditional practices that still go on today in Sweden. It has no probative value. "The Rape of Sweden", Feminist InfrequencyCites '55' areas so bad they are on a black list. They're poor areas which are high crime rates.Calls Peter Larsson a 'police chief' when in fact, he's a beat officer.Lars Frstell, police spokesman says there is 'nothing special about right now', dismisses as unevidenced that this is related to refugees and indeed, points to gang violence in Sweden going back to 2008 - even back to the 90s.There is no such thing {as no go zones}, says Erik kerlund - an actual police chief - there are areas where the police focus their efforts due to high crime.Strangely he says most applicants are young unmarried unaccompanied males, not the women and children the 'media' would have you believe - but then shows images of refugees who are largely women and children.The name of his channel gives away his origins. The channel being created to 'counter' Anita Sarkeesian of Feminist Frequency. Why are so many of these videos associated with misogynists and gamer-gate bros? "Welcome to Sweden" - Angry Foreigner 'Angry Foreigner' is a Bosnian immigrant - he came to Sweden when his Muslim parents moved there with him as a child in the 90s. He also hates feminists. Enough said. "The Truth About Sweden" - Paul Joseph WatsonIssues a challenge to lefties to visit Sweden themselves. I haven't, but I've had one friend who has been there 3 times this year, and another who goes there every other year or. They say it's lovely.Paul Joseph Watson is the credulous gullible fool that swallowed Fake News a while back, and published it on InfoWars - without asking for any evidence or validating his source (who admits it was a prank).He also released a video called 'The Male Backlash Against Toxic Women' about a 'lifestyle optimisation program' that
1) Understanding 'game' and the true nature of women
2) Self-improvement - to be more independent to 'boost their sexual market value' making it easier to attract women
3) Weightlifting
3) {Yes there are two number 3s} - Lifestyle optimisation
3) {actually there three number 3s} Rejecting dependencyThis requires 'high levels of testosterone'. You see women don't need men because of the welfare state. Women have become like men and 'sleep around' with 'bad boys' instead of committing to a 'nice guy'. This explains why neomasculinists have to manipulate women which is why 'pick up artists' are more popular than ever before.Basically he's bitter because he's an arsehole that thinks he isn't an arsehole and women don't like him.So what about his video on Sweden? It regurgitates many of the same claims already made a dozen times. It mentions Malmo as the 'Chicago of Sweden' and how its murder rate is higher than....Paris. Oh. And its also less than 1/7th of Chicago. Hrm. Yeah, this guy is...an unreliable reporter. "What They're NOT Telling You About Sweden " - Paul Joseph WatsonSame guy so not wasting too much time on this one "Sweden's Migrant Rape Epidemic" - Gatestone InstituteGatestone Institute of course has been linked to numerous false fear-mongering about Islam. What do they say? Apparently they don't have access to the numbers, but there must be a rape epidemic caused by immigrants because the Daily Mail says so. That's it? Oh no, the Daily Caller too.Yeah, there may be truths about what is happening in Sweden, but these sources are not the kind of analysts I'll rely on to get at them, I think.Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.

Not an honest fair assessment from the lot of you.There is enough information in the videos to make a STRONG SUGGESTION that immigration is causing huge problems, to put it as conservatively as I can.The people making the videos are very credible. It takes some kind of poisoned prejudice to see them otherwise. (Paul Joseph Watson by the way gets millions of views of his video reports, not what you'd expect from a conspiracy thinker. Infowars gets almost as many)/I for one would be greatly relieved to think immigration was NOT a big problem and if I feel that way I think other pro-Trumpers must also. There is no need to feed our fears with propaganda. And it's so CLEARLY NOT what is being done you all just prove again, as you always do, that it's the Leftist "narrative" that has you captivated, truth be hanged. Not one word in favor from any of you. Truly an alternate universe is EvC.I do have to wonder: Is all this Leftist claptrap "the great delusion" the Bible promises us in the last days? Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

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Not an honest fair assessment from the lot of you.

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By which you mean that you don't like honest fair assessments.

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The people making the videos are very credible. It takes some kind of poisoned prejudice to see them otherwise. (Paul Joseph Watson by the way gets millions of views of his video reports, not what you'd expect from a conspiracy thinker. Infowars gets almost as many)/

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Infowars IS a conspiracy theory site so your argument is rather self-defeating. Anyway there is no reason why conspiracy theories can't get lots of views.

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I for one would be greatly relieved to think immigration was NOT a big problem and if I feel that way I think other pro-Trumpers must also.

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Then why are you swallowing these videos hook line and sinker - to the point of making up conspiracy theories to explain away the evidence to the contrary ?

he heit's the onion ... proving once again that it is difficult to mock conservatives without seeming like a believable conservative argument some wingnut endorses.Edited by RAZD, : .

Why do you think videos are my only source of information? They happen to be handy things to post. But I get the basic information from at least half a dozen audio sources and even some print sources although my eyes suffer from that. You guys are under a terrible spell. I hope you come out of it, but there isn't much sign of such a wonderful possibility.

Not a shred of evidence of dishonesty from you.If that's all the information we had they would be. But we have lots of more reliable and scientific information. For which you have no response except for the standard giant conspiracy that is so secretive there is no reason whatsoever to believe it exists.

Infowars is a great source of true information, including some of the conspiracies. Not all of them, I disagree with some of them. Not that you care. And they are mostly libertarians, which I'm not. You just wipe it all out because one or two topics bug you. They have great reporters,l great interviews and great topics. Alex Jones himself can be a wild man sometimes but I like him too, even though I would probably choose to post others from his site because they are less wild.lEdited by Faith, : No reason given.

Because you have not mentioned any other sources in thousands of words you've written.But, sure, present your other sources. Claiming you have evidence but not presenting it is pointless.

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Infowars is a great source of true information, including some of the conspiracies. Not all of them, I disagree with some of them.

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As we have seen it is a hopelessly unreliable site. They carried that silly "inventor of email" story for one more.

That wasn't the point. Sigh. ALL OF IT adds up to the same information, that was the point.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Number of views is not evidence for truth or falsehood. Personally I am not surprised that looney-tunes sites are garnering millions of hits in today's climate.

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Why do you think videos are my only source of information?

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I have no idea why you would ask that question. I certainly haven't made any such claim. The fact is, however, that the videos are the only thing you are offering as evidence and they are pretty poor. (I know you object to that, but as I said - you don't like fair honest assessments of your sources)