30 Screenshots Of People Who Caught Others Shamelessly Spreading Lies On The Internet And Stepped In To Shut Them Up
There’s only so much nonsense one person can handle. And just because the internet is not guarded by BS-detecting police, that doesn’t mean one can share it without hesitation. Especially if it misinforms, spreads fakery, or takes advantage of a situation.
The corner of the subreddit “Quit Your Bull,” which is home to 1.6 million members, is dedicated to collecting such bittersweet examples. From Elon Musk busting his alleged “brain coach” to the American Kennel Club calling out a false ad that claims that a particular type of dog breed is recognized as dangerous by AKC, these are some of the screenshots that got karma restored.
And next time someone claims you can say whatever you want online, tell them to try and see what happens. Hint: nothing good will ever come of this.
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Someone Is Awfully Busy With So Many Careers!
Guy Leaves A Bad Review For A Shop He Was Never Even At
Don't Need 5g When U Have The Fastest 4g In The Universe
Nobody was born BS-proof. We've all lied, said nonsense, regretted it, or maybe not. Sometimes the nonsense we shared did no harm to us or people around, and sometimes it really paid off. Like, white lies. These incredible little lies hold half honesty, half false chaos that spins the world around us.
It's a whole different story when we encounter serious lies. Like anti-vaxxers spreading false beliefs against Covid vaccinations on social media. In such cases, a lie targets the most vulnerable people of society who, for the lack of better information, find themselves in genuine belief that what they’re reading is pure truth.
Bored Panda reached out to Scott Berkun, the author of eight popular books on creativity, design, leadership and public speaking who was happy to share his insights on dealing with someone else’s BS. According to him, the first thing to tackle it is to expect it. “Fire alarms are good at detecting fires because they are always expecting them. We say some people have good BS detectors for the same reason. They’ve seen it enough times to sense it before the rest of us do.”
Idk How Restaurants Deal With All The Anti-Masker Bs Right Now
Anti Vaxxers Never Change
Restaurant Owner Smacks Down Bs Review
Scott believes that it’s not hard, but “it just means you need the habit of asking good questions before you accept what you see or hear. And learning what sources to trust more than others.”
Due to the rise of social media fake news, bogus claims, and lies, both little and big, seem to be spreading faster than ever. “Someday we will learn that technology accelerates everything, the good and the bad. Today is not that day. 300 years ago Jonathan Swift wrote that “Falsehood flies and the Truth comes limping after it” but everyone at Facebook at Twitter seems to have only recently figured this out.”
According to Scott, “Everyone should be taught media literacy like this.” Meanwhile, many seem to struggle to find ways to politely tell a person to quit their nonsense. Scott suggests “asking “how do you know what you know?” as it often does the job.” “It sets you up to say ‘Thanks, but I don’t think you know what you’re talking about.’”
Local Jackass Gets Corrected
Faking A Dead Man's Autograph
I Found This Review From A Local Haunted House Attraction. There Were Quite A Few Negative Reviews Just Because They Had To Follow Covid Guidelines
Disgusting people with their disgusting lies. It's a good thing these people never quite bothered to improved their minds to be capable of better lies.
On the other hand, “Sometimes it works to your advantage to keep quiet and let them think you don’t realize they are full of BS. You may learn more about them and their real intentions than calling them out,” the book author concluded.
Vegan Lies About The Benefits Of Being Vegan. Another Vegan Calls Them Out
Not that this person wasn't dumb as a box of rocks, but the tree loss is about deforestation to create grazing land. There are many places in the world where rainforests are being torn down to create more land to raise cattle on. Though this original poster might very well believe they eat trees
Load More Replies...I eat a plant-based diet and I personally hate these jackwagons who lie just to push their agenda. So do a lot of my fellow vegans. And I hate hate hate PETA with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
There is no correlation between using paper and saving trees. The paper industry literally plants the most trees out of anyone yearly. And uses their own "crops". Never mind that pretty much all paper has a % of recycled content these days.
Leave this poster alone. They obviously have a very low protein level and it's affecting the brain.
i like the idea of beef cattle being in the same food circle as deforestation. thsuper thsilly
Most deforestation is to grow soy to be used at cattle food. Only a small percentage of soy is used for oil or human foods.
Load More Replies...Hmmm... that guy who answered calculated 1 beef per person which is huge and give a wrong answer... nevertheles, besides this mathematical error, I agree with him :)
Look at this dude, thinking cattle can’t down a tree and consume it whole, what a l o s e r! (I’m joking, of course)
Load More Replies...Not directly but most deforestation is for the growing of soy which is then turned into cattle feed. Only a very small percentage is used for other things. So indirectly, yes, cattle eat trees :) :)
Load More Replies...Not saying the meat industry is particularly eco friendly or anything, but the reality is that most pasture-land is unsuitable for crops. Just google 'mesquite + africa' and you'll see how trying to force trees to grow where they don't belong actually has a very negative impact on the environment. Trees need lots of water, and forests can only grow in wet environments. Trying to grow trees in an already arid environment sucks even more water out of the soil. Not to mention, if they don't grow in a place naturally, they're invasive. Invasive things tend to not have things that eat them in their new environment, and can quickly crowd out native species. Meat, on the other hand, is a way to utilize these more arid environments that wouldn't have been able to produce much human food, anyway. And if you really want to be a stinker about it, you could even argue that crops growing in wetter environments are probably located on the sites of old forests that had been cleared for cropland.
If we all turn vegan there will be no need for cows or other animals we have for food.They would become extinct. All the creatures that live off their droppings, and I watched a very fascinating show about what lives on cow poop, would become extinct. The creatures that live on those creatures..well you get the picture. Also there would be no nutrition going back into the soil, we couldn't produce enough veg for every human on earth. We would have to use chemicals to fertilise the soil.
I watched an amazing video the other day calling out "the tiktok vegan" woman (if you are on tiktok you know who I'm talking about). She did it with facts & logic and finesse. Honesty gets you further in life.
Also it saves more than "8.5" trees. And, who does not use paper for a year
The planet has sustained massive herds of millions of animals that eat grass, which has sustained the plains, the steppes, the prairies. Without these animals these grasslands would become dust bowls. All farming benefits from having livestock to improve the fertility of the soil. Artificial fertilisers are not sustainable and we will need natural methods to maintain productivity.
Yes, for pastures for cows for beef sometimes forests are cut down, but not that much...
I can vaguely see how cattle production affects trees if you need to clear land for it. But to use the United States as an example, our cattle production is done in areas that never had forests.
How would eating beef cost trees anyway? That just makes no sense, but still, we shouldn't eat as much meat as we do.
Breeding animals just for the sake of making them exist is not the point of veganism.
Load More Replies...Akc Calls Out Clickbait Twitter Ad
Boyfriends Steals £hundreds From Store, Goes Next Day, Gets Nicked So Girlfriend Sends 1-Star Review. As You Do
Faking A Wedding Pic For Karma
Elon Is Not Having It
They Did The Math
*sigh*
It's Just Full Of Misinformation
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation
Guy Doesn't Even Know What Band He Saw
could have been the british band Attack! Attack! not the american band Attack Attack.
Third Times A Charm. Repost For Anonymity Editing
Someone Doesn’t Have Their Facts Straight
(Now Ex) BF Says He Is Getting Threats From Reddit Users Because I Anonymously Posted On R/Amitheas***le
Bill Gates Made The Coronavirus
Karma Farming Accounts
Lying About Donating Bone Marrow
It's A Big Conspiracy!
Fortunate Son Meets Travelin’ Band
Must've been on some of those good concert drugs at the age of 12 to have hallucinated that.
Clickbating About The Vaccine
Caught A Live One Today
right-click any pics and select "search the web for image" for easy factcheck
First One In The Wild
How do people think that they can snatch a random pick from the internet, pretend it's them and not get caught out on their nonsense? Honestly, time and time again people confront those idiots with their obvious lies and yet there's a new moron every day trying it again.
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The current culture of seeking approval and praise from strangers really need to stop. It has been so toxic to the point I think these people are addicted to it.
The culture isn't new... it has always been around. The difference is people like that have a larger potential audience now.
Load More Replies...This is why cats (and dogs, if you're a dog person. I'm a cat person) are way better than humans
Like the time my brother said something about "the mean streets where I was raised" and I reminded him that he was born into a middle class family and literally never had to go without anything and the closest he ever got to "the streets" was when he would go running out to wave at the trash truck.
I wonder how many of these posts were actually posted by real people, rather than by trolls and bots designed to spread misinformation
The neurotic and pathetic people in our society bothers me . I certainly have had my share of embarrassing ups and downs but this is truly just sad. It makes me feel like the nuclear family is not only gone but deaf dumb stupid and slow and in top of that apathetic to whatever goes on in these people's minds that is making them so sad and insecure with being themselves. I laughed but really this is sad.
I sure wish whether you are for or against masks that people would leave businesses out of it... they're struggling to get by like everyone else. The businesses are also subject to whatever law the state passes, so... you're screwing the wrong people.
People will do anything for likes. It’s kind of pathetic. Maybe I’m missing something. Do likes pay your rent? Do they get you a boyfriend? Do they suddenly make you cooler irl?
I find it interesting for the majority of these posts, you never see a response from the OP....
The current culture of seeking approval and praise from strangers really need to stop. It has been so toxic to the point I think these people are addicted to it.
The culture isn't new... it has always been around. The difference is people like that have a larger potential audience now.
Load More Replies...This is why cats (and dogs, if you're a dog person. I'm a cat person) are way better than humans
Like the time my brother said something about "the mean streets where I was raised" and I reminded him that he was born into a middle class family and literally never had to go without anything and the closest he ever got to "the streets" was when he would go running out to wave at the trash truck.
I wonder how many of these posts were actually posted by real people, rather than by trolls and bots designed to spread misinformation
The neurotic and pathetic people in our society bothers me . I certainly have had my share of embarrassing ups and downs but this is truly just sad. It makes me feel like the nuclear family is not only gone but deaf dumb stupid and slow and in top of that apathetic to whatever goes on in these people's minds that is making them so sad and insecure with being themselves. I laughed but really this is sad.
I sure wish whether you are for or against masks that people would leave businesses out of it... they're struggling to get by like everyone else. The businesses are also subject to whatever law the state passes, so... you're screwing the wrong people.
People will do anything for likes. It’s kind of pathetic. Maybe I’m missing something. Do likes pay your rent? Do they get you a boyfriend? Do they suddenly make you cooler irl?
I find it interesting for the majority of these posts, you never see a response from the OP....