Ok I gotta rant... Nothing can be trusted anymore

[Ronin13]

Seriously, I hope I'm not the only one to notice as of late, but everyone and their fucking mother is a goddamn expert on EVERYTHING! People share "news" stories and these unconfirmed and unvetted sources get thrown around like a Frisbee in a college quad. This is good, this is bad, this is new, this is recently discovered... Who is coming up with the bullshit and passing it off as truth? Everything labeled "Documentary" on YouTube (a shoestring budget, no damn research of any real substance, and just a full-motion video version of a power point presentation and viola! you have a "documentary") = 90% horseshit. There are now literally thousands of sites, not one of them sourced to a peer-reviewed study or journal, from authors that have no merit whatsoever... Like who the fuck is this guy? What makes him an expert or even slightly knowledgeable on anything? I witnessed a "documentary" someone posted on FB a few weeks ago how fracking is bad, and solar and wind are good... With mostly rumor, conjecture, and opinion with almost ZERO facts. WTF? Then I have one Army buddy who constantly posts things citing bad behavior by our Law Enforcement around the country and upon reading these stories they're only getting one side of the story and going out of their way to make the cop look bad. Granted, a few instances the cop is doing bad, but I'd like to get both sides of the story before making a judgement. And of course, I can't go one week without someone posting something that is so goddamn biased I can't even get through the first paragraph... The incredulous left-leaning view of the author and the fucking article isn't even about anything closely related to politics. It could be a story about going camping and it will usually state something like "and those damn republicans are screwing up our national forests." In our modern world where everyone is an expert, and every "news" story (from some ambiguous and unheard of site), "documentary" and blog is taken as gospel truth, I fear we're fast approaching idiocracy. [Rant1]
/rant
Whew, now I feel better.

[Bailey Guns]

Why should I believe anything in your post, Ronin? Who the f**k are you? What makes you an expert on the fact nothing can be trusted? Have you vetted everything in your post? Where did you come up with the 90% horseshit statistic? Do you know for a fact republicans AREN'T screwing up our forests?

[Coffee]

[Great-Kazoo]

you need to start posting longer than 2-3 sentences like you would a police report. your op is more cluttered than an adult bookstore checkout counter.

[Ronin13]

Why should I believe anything in your post, Ronin? Who the f**k are you? What makes you an expert on the fact nothing can be trusted? Have you vetted everything in your post? Where did you come up with the 90% horseshit statistic? Do you know for a fact republicans AREN'T screwing up our forests?

[Coffee]
[ROFL1]
Touche!

[HoneyBadger]

Why should I believe anything in your post, Ronin? Who the f**k are you? What makes you an expert on the fact nothing can be trusted? Have you vetted everything in your post? Where did you come up with the 90% horseshit statistic? Do you know for a fact republicans AREN'T screwing up our forests?

[Coffee]
[ROFL1]

[kidicarus13]

I like how everyone and their brother has started using the word VETTED in the past year.

[Dave_L]

Social media...has screwed us all.

[TEAMRICO]

I've got the Internet........I'm an expert on ALL fucking subjects.
GOOGLE it..............



Did you ride your bike to work today?

[StagLefty]

I'm a Googlologist don't be needing no smarts or Corvettes damnit !!! [facepalm]

[Great-Kazoo]

I like how everyone and their brother has started using the word VETTED in the past year.

You may be to young to remember the year of, Gravitas

[crays]

You mean it's not true.....?

Sent via Mobile Work Avoidance Device

[TheBelly]

http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/

"What has died is any acknowledgement of expertise as anything that should alter our thoughts or change the way we live."

[T-Giv]

I'll give you 7/10 for the rant.

[Ronin13]

I'll give you 7/10 for the rant.
YAY! A 5+ rating on my rant! I hoped I included enough swear words (Mods please forgive me).

[sellersm]

Since I read this on the internet, I can't accept it as anything other than rhetoric, therefore I can not rate the quality of the supposed rant, since it may very well be just some piece of disinformation, or an agenda-driven piece of drivel, or utter nonsense, or perhaps, an actually truthful statement of how you feel about the subject! [Coffee] [LOL]

[68Charger]

46383
I'll also give you a 7... and I blame unfettered access to the internet- back in the day when it was too technical for the average jackass to figure out, it was a place where smart people could congregate to get away from stoopid.

Now where are we to go? [gohome]

[Hitman 6]

Nice work Ronin. I wish I could copy paste that into about 5 or 6 facebook feeds I've seen today.

[hghclsswhitetrsh]

And here I was thinking your blackpeoplemeet.com account got hacked. What a disappointment.

[SuperiorDG]

You know you are a racist when you don't honor others' opinions. The sad thing is, once all opinions are valid one knows nothing.

[Ronin13]

You know you are a racist when you don't honor others' opinions. The sad thing is, once all opinions are valid one knows nothing.
That's the thing that irks me, it's not so much people's opinions, it's people sharing their opinions (and worse, they have a massive readership they can get to with the ease of creating your own website now) and passing it off as fact.

[merl]

Did you ride your bike to work today?

Aha! That is why there were all those slower than average cyclists today.

[Holger Danske]

1 of 10. Too long. Not enough swearing. Just a jumbled mess to read. Signed Rant Expert

[TFOGGER]

The low score by the Danish Judge will be discarded due to lack of documentation. Carry on.

[GunsRBadMMMMKay]

I blame Facebook....................and Communists.

I do see a lot of BS being spread around on FB and Twitter......also a lot of BS on mainstream media being reported as "news" too. Just don't know who to trust anymore.

[Holger Danske]

Danes are always right. At least thats what my dad ised to say.

[Whistler]

I'll also give you a 7... and I blame unfettered access to the internet- back in the day when it was too technical for the average jackass to figure out, it was a place where smart people could congregate to get away from stoopid.

Now where are we to go? [gohome]

Umm WE do have a place [Muaha]

[Ah Pook]

I'll give you 7/10 for the rant.
Too generous. No biting involved.

[hatidua]

-plastic zip ties are bad for barrels, -I read it on the interwebs...

[Great-Kazoo]

46383
I'll also give you a 7... and I blame unfettered access to the internet- back in the day when it was too technical for the average jackass to figure out, it was a place where smart people could congregate to get away from stoopid.

Now where are we to go? [gohome]

Back to books, makes you think.

[Great-Kazoo]

Danes are always right. At least thats what my dad ised to say.

oh gosh darn not you flippin danes eh. My Norwegian FIL would disagree, harshly. As he was wont to do at the Danebod back in min knee soda

[Bailey Guns]

Wolf ammo breaks extractors and gums up chambers.

[clublights]

I'm totally an Expert ...


My LinkedIn profile says so ... which is convenient since I ran outta business cards...

[spqrzilla]

Hang on a sec, I got a Wikipedia link around here ....

[BushMasterBoy]

If you fill your car with Tannerite, you will make CNN headlines when the po po shoot at you...

[wax_job]

I'm an expert on tactical lights
46385

[Irving]

New meaning to "wax_job."

[sniper7]

-1000. Worst rant in the history of this website. You have made everyone on this forum a little dumber, I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.

[Irving]

-1000. Worst rant in the history of this website. You have made everyone on this forum a little dumber, I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.

Which rant rating scale are you using here? I'm partial to the Sarbanes-Oxley method myself.

[Aloha_Shooter]

46383
I'll also give you a 7... and I blame unfettered access to the internet- back in the day when it was too technical for the average jackass to figure out, it was a place where smart people could congregate to get away from stoopid.

Now where are we to go? [gohome]

You have to go pretty far back in Internet history for this to be true -- or don't you remember the bilge spilled across Use(less)net 30+ years ago? Sorry but the Internet has had stupid people on it since well before unfettered access and the invention of the WWW.

[GilpinGuy]

Sorry but the Internet has had stupid people on it since well before unfettered access and the invention of the WWW.

There's an Al Gore joke in there somewhere. [Coffee]

[68Charger]

You have to go pretty far back in Internet history for this to be true -- or don't you remember the bilge spilled across Use(less)net 30+ years ago? Sorry but the Internet has had stupid people on it since well before unfettered access and the invention of the WWW.
Back when WWW=BBS
AOL made it to easy for the intellectually challenged- that was the begging of the end.

But yeah, even then there was stupid... But not Kardashian stupid...

[kawiracer14]

2/10 I guess.

[osok-308]

Seriously, I hope I'm not the only one to notice as of late, but everyone and their fucking mother is a goddamn expert on EVERYTHING! People share "news" stories and these unconfirmed and unvetted sources get thrown around like a Frisbee in a college quad. This is good, this is bad, this is new, this is recently discovered... Who is coming up with the bullshit and passing it off as truth? Everything labeled "Documentary" on YouTube (a shoestring budget, no damn research of any real substance, and just a full-motion video version of a power point presentation and viola! you have a "documentary") = 90% horseshit. There are now literally thousands of sites, not one of them sourced to a peer-reviewed study or journal, from authors that have no merit whatsoever... Like who the fuck is this guy? What makes him an expert or even slightly knowledgeable on anything? I witnessed a "documentary" someone posted on FB a few weeks ago how fracking is bad, and solar and wind are good... With mostly rumor, conjecture, and opinion with almost ZERO facts. WTF? Then I have one Army buddy who constantly posts things citing bad behavior by our Law Enforcement around the country and upon reading these stories they're only getting one side of the story and going out of their way to make the cop look bad. Granted, a few instances the cop is doing bad, but I'd like to get both sides of the story before making a judgement. And of course, I can't go one week without someone posting something that is so goddamn biased I can't even get through the first paragraph... The incredulous left-leaning view of the author and the fucking article isn't even about anything closely related to politics. It could be a story about going camping and it will usually state something like "and those damn republicans are screwing up our national forests." In our modern world where everyone is an expert, and every "news" story (from some ambiguous and unheard of site), "documentary" and blog is taken as gospel truth, I fear we're fast approaching idiocracy. [Rant1]
/rant
Whew, now I feel better.


I have a buddy who does stuff like this all the time. He'll post things about things and claim that science backs him up on everything. Funny part is, he hasn't taken a science class or read any scientific writing since high school, and he got D's while in high school. He'll start arguing about how science is on his side for most arguments, and if someone proves him wrong, he says "that's not how i see it" or "agree to disagree" [Rant1]

[TheGrey]

Preach it, brother! 7/10. It would have been an 8 out of 10, but the giant wall of text didn't have enough swear words to break it up. :)

I've been getting back at them by posting the blow-by-blow articles with the IRS scandal. For some reason, the libbers are awfully quiet on that front.