Should I point out a BS post on Facebook?

[Just Saying]

My cousin posted this on his timeline. Now, he has posted anti-Obama crap before but this is an outright LIE. Do I bother pointing it out or as I normally do ignore my Facebook for a few months?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=595939013772691&set=a.249088301791099.66544.129879573711973&type=1&ref=nf

[EOTE]

1. Yes, you should.

And the poster should be called out on it and made to feel like an ass.

Post this and ask why your cousin is such a big fan of bullshit.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/memorialday.asp

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I tend to ignore fools, but here's something else you could post.

?itok=zUTA003v

President Barack Obama participates in a Memorial Day wreath laying at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 27, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)




http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/27/president-obama-delivers-memorial-day-remarks-arlington-national-cemetery

[Adsos Letter]

9. Excellent response, and speaks directly to the larger point.

I have a couple friends on FB that consistently post the kind of patently false garbage regarding President Obama, Democrats, liberals, etc., that the OP is bemoaning.

I think the thing that troubles me most about it is their unwillingness to acknowledge their error when pointed out (publicly, at least). Anything I post to counter/disprove their assertions is almost always met in one of two ways:

1. Total silence
2. Some strawman argument that usually ends with a multitude I've never met chiming in from all over the FB world in order to support said strawman, and introduce several more.

It isn't just their hatred for anyone and anything related to Democrats or Progressives (my friends have never responded hatefully toward me, but the crowd that follows often does). It's the fact that they seem unwilling/unable to ground their beliefs in anything reality-based, and get so offended when a it's pointed out to them.

I'm saving the photo and link you provided for use when this (inevitably) appears on my news feed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Point out that lies do not become a retired Army Officer

And that is what he posted, a bold faced lie. Then link to any of the coverage of the president speech, better if video

[JaneyVee]

4. He went to Arlington 3 out of 4 years. He went to Chicago one Memorial Day to another Vet cemetery.

[Shrike47]

5. Yes, point out it's a lie and he should retract it.

The Snopes article is quite informative.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. You certainly should.

[EC]

7. Yeah, ask for proof.

I'm always asking for proof or just telling my rightwing nut acquantances that the post is just stupid. Surprisingly, they will admit it's stupid or can't find proof. I doubt most wing nuts are like this, but they are kinda all over the board politically, so I just figure they're kinda dumb.

[Quantess]

8. How about,

1. don't repeat stupid shit like this because it's trollish.

2. Use the socialfixer facebook app

You can mark posts as read, hide posts, etc. But it doesn't work with internet explorer... only works with google chrome, firefox, etc.

[Just Saying]

11. I didn't put the pic up for that reason

I go there like twice a month and probably should just shut down the account anyway. All it ever does is irritate me! Lol

[Boudica the Lyoness]

10. I'm trying to find that picture

of G W Bush striding over graves....smirking. That was sickening.

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. ever since I reconnected to people from my little Pennsylvania town I left 40 years ago - all kinds

of crazy right-wing crap shows up on my Facebook newsfeed page. Personally what I do is that I try to post two left-wing or anti-Republican post - for every one right-wing nutter post I see. Rather than respond to their nonsense - I try to bait them to respond to my stuff.

Here are three great Facebook resources - there are actually a lot more. If you click "like on these pages - their stuff will start showing up on your newsfeed - you can post it on your wall and have it showing up on your Facebook friends' newsfeeds - simply by clicking share.


https://www.facebook.com/beingliberal.org?hc_location=stream


https://www.facebook.com/pages/Go-Left/259536274080316


https://www.facebook.com/Republicansareidiots1?hc_location=stream

[Just Saying]

13. Thanks! N/t

[Mz Pip]

14. A whole lot of stupid on that page

Reading the pig ignorant comments to that BS post just reinforces my already low opinion of right wingers.

A couple of people jumped in with snopes debunking and I "liked" those comments. Not that it matters much. The haters don't care about truth or reality.

[dembotoz]

15. my response would be more like--but you supported the war criminal g bush when he disrespected the

vets by his very presence?
maybe a bit about 4000 American soldiers dead as a direct results of bush's lies and you have the gall to post this republican drivel.

I am a bit more confrontational