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It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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I first learned how bullshit these "A Current Affair" programs were when I was a teenager. A group of us kids played a game in the park in the city centre, near a shopping centre. It was basically just tips (or "tag" to Americans) and the rules were clear that we weren't allowed to go into the shops. Some people did anyway. Our local current affair program ran a news story on us, framing it as a group of "rowdy kids" deliberately going into the shops to knock people down and vandalise stores. They just straight up lied the entire segment. They interviewed a mate of mine for about 20 minutes, but they only used a single soundbite from him to make him say the exact opposite of what he was actually saying the entire time.