Trish aka Loresinger wrote:

You are absolutely correct Sia. I chose to leave it to expose David's purposeful manipulation of data for all to see. Pikes has gone further and shown an accurate chart based on incoming information. We can wipe out lies from the screen, certainly. But sometimes exposing them is far more powerful. 

I agree. Notable DFM hasn't been back to post, but is prolifically posting on CPD where his authoritidy is unquestioned and unchallenged. What happened to him since MOTU? He became an idiot. 

Siagiah wrote:

Something radical happened to him.  Who knows what ?  Maybe politics weigh so heavy in him that they overwhelm everything else. 

I think that's spot-on: DFM has become radicalized, politically. He's embraced far-right political ideology with...how shall I put this...considerable zealotry. Politics was always the one area I tended to avoid with him over the years, but for the most part, his political views seldom entered into the conversations we had (or into the large majority of his posts). Now it seems to be all he posts about, and the content is little different from that offered by the other ideologues on the White Board (in other words, either misleading or outright vacuous).

This has been a disturbing and disappointing transformation for me to witness. DFM was, for years, one of my absolute favorite posters on these boards, something of a kindred spirit in terms of preferring an objective, coldly rational approach to most questions. He's become such a different poster over the last year or two that I legitimately wondered if he had passed on and a family member (the sort one keeps inside, out of view, and doesn't really talk about to others...) had taken over the nick.
 

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Poppet wrote:

Siagiah wrote:

Something radical happened to him.  Who knows what ?  Maybe politics weigh so heavy in him that they overwhelm everything else. 

I think that's spot-on: DFM has become radicalized, politically. He's embraced far-right political ideology with...how shall I put this...considerable zealotry. Politics was always the one area I tended to avoid with him over the years, but for the most part, his political views seldom entered into the conversations we had (or into the large majority of his posts). Now it seems to be all he posts about, and the content is little different from that offered the other ideologues on the White Board (in other words, either misleading or outright vacuous).

This has been a disturbing and disappointing transformation for me to witness. DFM was, for years, one of my absolute favorite posters on these boards, something of a kindred spirit in terms of preferring an objective, coldly rational approach to most questions. He's become such a different poster over the last year or two that I legitimately wondered if he had passed on and a family member (the sort one keeps inside, out of view, and doesn't really talk about to others...) had taken over the nick.
 

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Because I really don't know him, I wasn't willing to suggest that, but it's EXACTLY what I wondered too.  Such an abrupt and ENORMOUS change in someone is not typical unless there's been a major brain event; a take-over by another; or something happened that was so dramatic that it overwhelmed who they used to be. 

I've seen huge, natural changes in people's attitudes and viewpoints over the years,  (those that didn't involve brain injury or Alzheimers) but never in their basic personality and engagement style.  Normally, in "natural changes", you'd see an increase in anger or something like fear or disillusionment, changed attitudes, but NOT so massive a change in how they approach the world and communication on EVERY LEVEL.

WOW, that's just nutty stuff.  Truly NUTTY stuff.

WOW... Well, whether true about DFM or not, I can see truth in what has happened to people whom I know for that very same reason.  People who were once reasonable people gone NUTZ after too much exposure to those things.  Especially Rush, Alex Jones, and the like.