<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[A Swift Sunrise]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://steynian.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Binky]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://steynian.wordpress.com/author/binky/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Useful Truthy Lies]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="16521" data-permalink="https://steynian.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/useful-truthy-lies/liesbelieve/" data-orig-file="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg" data-orig-size="381,352" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Sean&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1460300173&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}" data-image-title="liesbelieve" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg?w=381" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-16521" src="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg?w=381&#038;h=352" alt="liesbelieve.JPG" width="381" height="352" srcset="https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg 381w, https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg?w=150&amp;h=139 150w, https://steynian.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/liesbelieve.jpg?w=300&amp;h=277 300w" sizes="(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/mikechase27/works/14670360-listen-and-believe?grid_pos=74&amp;p=t-shirt&amp;style=mens" target="_blank">T-Shirt Via</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;padding-left:30px;"><strong>~ ITEM:</strong> Jian Ghomeshi <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBlkwyYcRVk" target="_blank">Accusers Are Liars</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;padding-left:30px;"><strong>~ ITEM:</strong> <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/a-good-day-for-justice-watch-christie-blatchford-break-down-the-ghomeshi-verdict" target="_blank">Ghomeshi verdict was magnificent</a>, compared to trial by press or social media, by Christie Blatchford</p>
<h1 style="text-align:center;"><strong>+ + +</strong></h1>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>THE IDIOTIC</strong> idea that all must believe all reports of racist, sexist, homophobic, or other alleged attacks is a popular idiotic idea: all must &#8220;<em><strong>Listen And Believe!</strong></em>&#8220;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Why? Because like empty social media &#8216;celebrity&#8217;, potentially valuable victimhood can win you all the goodies, sympathy, attention, weepy protesters, and minions listening to you and believing you. Except, there&#8217;s a lot of attention-seeking liars out there, constantly crying wolf, and inventing hate-crimes for the media and permanently aggrieved to feeding-frenzy all over.</p>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>Some Basics&#8230;.</strong></em></h2>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">(1) <strong>Prove it.</strong> Evidence. Law. Witnesses. Investigation. The Feminist dirty-word &#8216;Facts&#8217;. Believe nothing legal until it is legally certain, however likely the guilt may be, or how unlikeable the alleged perp happens to be. Because digital lynch mobs can still ruin innocent lives, reputations, and put men in jail for years and years.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(2) <strong>Supposed perps?</strong> The law says: &#8220;Innocent until proven guilty&#8221;, not guilty until proven guilty, because someone belongs to some &#8220;guilty&#8221; group (men, males, heterosexuals, Christians, white men and women, non-poor people, conservatives, anyone who dares disagree with Victim Glorifying, and SJWism).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">(3) That <strong>SJWs can&#8217;t and won&#8217;t police their own folks</strong> from alleging all sorts of death-threats, bomb-threats, and over-inflating online criticism into unbearable &#8216;hatred and harassment&#8217; ( <em>COUGHZoe, AnitaCOUGH</em> )? Fact-lite, and useful fear-mongering heavy.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The cry of the Great Speckled Victim? &#8220;Help. Help. I&#8217;m being oppressed. Save me by dropping much moneys into my <em>Patreon</em> or <em>Kickstarter</em>, before <em>They Get Me</em>.&#8221; Cha-Chings.</p>
<h2 style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>Och Aye, The Noo</strong></em></h2>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">YouTuber <em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBVYmXSIzHq_gXMZpsfd9kg" target="_blank">6oodfella</a></em> has a great (if Scots &amp; salty) video up on the whole matter, plus a heap of intertube links to false reports over the past few years. He tells it like it is, IMHO.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">The irony? Crying wolf doesn&#8217;t mean there <span style="text-decoration:underline;">aren&#8217;t</span> wolves, and that some people <strong>aren&#8217;t</strong> attacked for various reasons&#8211; it <em>does</em> mean that innocent victims might not be believed, and wolves may well get away with attacks. That would be precisely because of all the phony, self-seeking, and &#8216;consciousness-raising&#8217; fakery, useful lies, and propagandistic noise from SJWs, feminists, militant homosexuals, disturbed individuals, and members of other privileged &#8216;victim&#8217; groups.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">#IBELIEVE? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmOnba86q4c" target="_blank">Well, that would be</a> because you dislike or don&#8217;t understand either the principles of justice, or the purpose of law-courts, then. Shame on you for wanting possibly unprincipled, unjust, and wrong-headed vigilantism enforced by the state. ~</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So saith,</p>
<h1 style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000080;"><em><strong>The Binks</strong></em></span></h1>
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