you would have to trust that the person listening to the lies would know the difference, and that's the rub...
replythat's the neat part, the source is also going to be bullshit slop!
replyTherefore, you can dismiss whatwever claim is being made. That's the reason to ask for the source: so you can judge whether it's reliable.
replyGreat, I dismissed it.
replyUnfortunately, the several million other people who live in the same voting unit as me didn't and ended up electing an asshat anyway.
> That's the reason to ask for the source: so you can judge whether it's reliable.
replySo the solution to checking whether an article is reliable is to check whether its sources are reliable? How far back do you go? Or do you disregard immediately any article that does not cite only sources you already trust?