First off, I'm going to be blunt, I'm a biased motherforgeter. I actually deliver newspapers. I've done it my entire life. I'm not trying to be funny when I say "my mother was delivering papers while I was in the womb", because that happened. I have a high respect for the news. That said,
This is cancer. This is actual loving spam, being thrown on Off Topic without a second thought. It pisses me off I can't turn my head two degrees without seeing some two-bit richardhole posting some irrelevant picture and calling it 'news' while passing it off as a story. It's gotten to the point where it's expected. "What can ya do" and stuff. It shouldn't be. Spam shouldn't be expected. This is only covering idiots like Piecrust that think they're funny. They're stupid, but they aren't actively harmful.
Then there's people like Tony. I don't know him. I have no idea why he's disliked by the community at large. But refusing to put a loving source with your information and posting blatantly fake news that anyone with half a brain and see is bending the truth, over exaggerated, or flat-out made up, refusing to offer any kind of apology without even the decency to lock his own godsdammed threads, honestly makes me question if he's doing this stuff on purpose or if he's actually so braindead he thinks a couple people making radical statements is millions of people demanding a country's figurehead embrace a bastardized version of a controversial religion. And this is assuming his sources- repeatedly claimed to be unreliable by several people- aren't lying through their teeth to start stuff.
This needs to loving stop. Anyone in agreement?