Little People’s Jacob Roloff slams Trump-supporter brother Jeremy’s views as ‘erratic’ as siblings feud over politics
LITTLE People Big World star Jacob Roloff has branded his brother's views of the media as "erratic" as the pair entered into a passionate debate.
Jeremy Roloff, a Trump supporter, branded the mainstream media the "enemy of the people", which sparked a series of replies from Jacob.
"As a self-styled free thinker it is bizarre to repeat populist slogans so assuredly," he wrote in reply.
"While no media outlet can or will ever be perfect, a full-throated demonizing of ‘the media’ is lazy and, again, only serves the populist politics you happen to support; not a 'truth', a slogan."
As others began to involve themselves, Jeremy replied to a user who claimed to be in the media and that everyone knew it was "corrupt."
"Chad, totally agree. We are in a war of information and truth is the casualty," wrote Jeremy.
"Anyone paying attention knows it, their acceptance seems to depend on what they’ve already consumed, and therefore think."
But Jacob was not impressed and hit back to claim he had attempted to "engage" with his brother multiple times.
"As mentioned above, trading a flawed mainstream news for opinion and conspiracy theory without basis is not a path to “truth”, it’s just a different sort of secondary source with less fidelity," he shared.
"Slogans are also insufficient. I’ve engaged you multiple times re: sources, info, etc."
In response, Jeremy continued: "Again, nobody paying attention actually thinks the MSM is a source of truth.
"It’s opinion based rhetoric, as most outlets are. I.e. the information war, truth being the casualty. MSM is not validated because of its size, if anything it’s all the more deceptive."
His words however riled Jacob who accused his brother of confusing the different media mediums.
"The problem here is that I think you confuse cable news, tv news, with print news. TV, as you know, is meant to house personality and opinion (of both the anchor & the network)," Jacob tweeted.
"The conflation of all news as fake is simply indefensible because there is no such monolith to dismiss
"What I also noted is your trade; rhetoric for a more erratic (& debased) rhetoric. Seems silly to chide ‘the news’ for that, when you spew your own and still listen to *someone* else’s (Rubin, Prager etc).
"Quite a coincidence between your preferred news & it’s treatment of Trump."
The pair's differing beliefs have put them at odds in recent years, and 23-year-old Jacob recently shared Jeremy by claiming supporting Donald Trump has "melted your brain."
Jacob shared a simple Instagram post on Sunday, a day after was elected the 46th President of the United States, and said: "If you're on the right, I genuinely feel sorry if you think this election will be overturned."
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