Is there some way to program the Internets so that Fwd: doesn't work anymore? There's already enough bullshit to sift without this crap (below) - this sort of thing is such useless dreck that you'd think it would die the death of a thousand deletes , but noooooo...we just can't get enough of dis information and dat mis-information.
Here's an email (subject:immigration ) that was sent to my blog email- I haven't posted anything about immigration- I'm using it as an example of how stupid thinking spreads- and if it stops just one idiotic FWD from happening, then I will have served my purpose and I can die happy.
My commentary is in red , the rest is unedited verbatim C&P from an email:
From:Bob <mailto:republicanguy1996@yahoo.com>
Date:Monday, May 01, 2006 5:25 PM
To: (me)
Subject: Re: Immigration
Who the hell are you? The only Republican guy named 'Bob' that I know is Bob Dole and he doesn't use yahoo email. 1996 is a meaningful year for Bob D, though. Hmmm...
can't guarantee the veracity of this, but someone just forwarded it to me. It sounds very plausible, considering how Bush and crew have basically betrayed America
You fucking idiot! You "can't guarantee the veracity" but since someone forwarded it you feel compelled to repeat their mistake? Did you read it or even check the link?
No.
You didn't.
You are too stupid to read or to write so you merely forward. Forward anything you receive - not even a cursory thought given to what it is you forward- why do you do this?
You don't even know what "it" is, so how the hell can it be "plausible?"
So you receive (below) and you FWD (above ) even though you don't know if it's true or even what it is.
As far as Bush goes, you are screaming at the choir in my case , but the statement " It sounds very plausible, considering how Bush and crew have basically betrayed America" is not going to do much to sway an impartial reader- unless your intent is to sound inarticulate, uninformed and mildly hysterical- which it may well be- that being standard disinformation P&P and all...
Fwd:
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Forward this email to everyone you know. Post it on your blog.
I'm forwarding it exactly once. Yeah, I'll post it. How else can I publicly ridicule you?
Radio Station (UNAM AM) in Mexico City just released some very interesting information.
Former attaché to Andres Manuel Lopez released information on government documents leaked last week, showing that G.W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and John McCain have taken bribes from Vicente Fox, President of Mexico.
Vicente Fox, who for a long time has exported Mexico's problems to the U.S., has been lobbying the US hard to continue to accept Mexico's unwanted citizens. Now, according to Mexican officials, he has also bribed U.S. politicians.
This allegation is surely true in the indirect sense- through support of third-parties with a shared agenda or introduction of self-enriching , mutually profitable policies, for example - but in the context of this mail who can know that? There's no detail given- it reads as if Fox were personally handing out cash-stuffed envelopes- but I'm certain there's more to it than that... it's also not hard to tell that the writer of this article is less than objective, which seriously undermines any truth there may be in these charges- again, this is by-the-book disinformation P&P.
The fact that Bush, Rice, and McCain have been taking bribes from Vicente Fox helps put the immigration debate in context.
As much as I loathe all of those named villians, I have to take exception to the
usage of the word "fact" when the proper word would be "allegation".
How exactly does it help put the debate in context? This, like the bribery charge itself , is not explained.
You can't make a point by merely stating "I have made a point" and then clarify it by saying "I have now cleared that up".
If you know Spanish, listen to the broadcast at: http://www.multilingualbooks.com/online-radio-spanish.html
I don't know Spanish, but I do know that if they had shocking proof that Fox was secretly forking the Benjamins over to BushCo , then there would be some easily recognizable banner ads and an English translation. Or maybe Mexican journalists are not so willing to do the jobs that the American press won't do?
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