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Disinformation Is Tearing America Apart
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LOL there's always a both sideser in here. I have this conversation with my brother weekly. He seems to think that the next time will convince me.
I mean the right is obviously much worse, straight up lies vs careful omission. Not trying to defend that since it kinda goes without saying around here.
For this tho when one of the fastest/widest margin bills to pass congress this past year is blocking foreign tech media because it might influence elections, while our domestic tech companies have already been proven to do that over and over for the past few elections it just shows neither side actually cares about misinformation, just controlling it for themselves
It’s specifically that they don’t want the Chinese government to have access to the data. They don’t care a bit about privacy though.
One side is backed by fiction and one side is backed by US intelligence? And where is this 'proof' domestic tech companies illegally influence American elections? Let's see it bub.
God it's impossible to keep up with people who are obsessed with defending the problems within the Democratic party. Is this not what happened in the 2016 general election now? I can't keep up with the shifting narratives used to excuse the failures of establishment Democrats.
The other day some one was bitching about the Steele dossier. I guess if the only evidence of impropriety from the democrats is opposition research from 2016 then that's actually not bad.
Sure, be scared of the tech bogeymen forever then. If I recall all three branches of your government were repub for half a turn and you're still getting ass fucked.
Here's a video explaining why your brother is right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVy_a9u8CeQ
And there's the "here's a YouTube video that explains EVERYTHING" guy, right on schedule
No problem. Since the youtube video does indeed explain everything.
I could link you the Manufacturing Consent book too but that seems rather long for your simple question.
No it doesn't.
Nobody asked a question, dipshit
Is that the sound of a liberal that can't explain why his government refuses to call the Genocide israel commits a Genocide?
No, it's the sound of me pointing out that you can try to spread this garbage everywhere but none of us are falling for it
Oops can't explain that question of course. Gotta keep dodging it.
No, I literally answered your stupid question, keep up.
Basic reading comprehension is fucking hard for you, init?
I couldn't read you explaining why the Democrats are supporting a Genocide.
That's because I didn't.
Because I'm not going to.
Because you're a bad faith dipshit who won't listen to basic fact and everyone here knows it
Oh cool so you can't explain why both sides aren't the same but still deny it.
Putting words in my mouth doesn't make you correct.
Stay mad though it's funny as fuck
And that is the sound of someone going ad hominem when they feel insecure.
if you could explain it, why didn't you?
Because Linker and you both have a history of willful stupidity
Which you of course know because you've been told this many times
your characterization of other users doesn't absolve you for having to defend your position.
your accusation of bad faith is, itself bad faith.
>Yeah, actually, it does
no, it doesn't. a claim made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. when someone is asked to support their position, and they instead attack the person asking, no one should believe their claim.
Good thing I didn't make a claim, then. You said I had to defend my position when I do not, that's all that I said.
I agree. Unless said person has a history of participating in bad faith, like yourself.
You can add user notes to people on Lemmy, I have one for you and am quite familiar with your complete lack of basic conversational skills thanks to it.
>You can add user notes to people on Lemmy,
you can do that on mastodon, but it's not a core feature of lemmy. are you using the paid, proprietary client for a free software, federated protocol platform?
gross.
First: there's more than one paid app
Second: No, I didn't pay for the app I'm using
Third: Entirely irrelevant to the discussion, as usual
your accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith
i can't downvote on mastodon. you're tilting at windmills.
You really cant read, can you?
your syntax was ambiguous. it's not my fault you didn't construct it clearly. there is certainly a problem with literacy in this thread, though.
Keep stretching for the fault to be on me and not your bsrelt-functioning brain, surely someone will believe it eventually.
Yeah, you and that other guy both seem completely incapable of basic English in about the same ways. Interesting, that is
it's not a stretch.
bsrelt
i think the lady doth protest too much.
And redirecting too! Wow, you're managed to hit several of the bad faith talking points that conservatives use.
>bad faith talking points that conservatives use.
this is pigeonholing
i just got here. tone it down.
Can't respond to that one because you know I'm right. Quick pivot.
My last message and I am disengaging from you since neither you nor any of this are worth my effort. You can't point at someone and say "see, you don't have the answers to everything therefore I win, checkmate, home run, idiot". If you had a real point to make, you'd have done so long ago. Instead, you're just slinging a bunch of turds around and then pat yourself on the back for a job well done. I'm here to tell you that you have failed to convinced a single person of anything you said. Further, you may not actually believe anything you say and only say it in an attempt to feel better than others. Both of these things are very unhealthy and are something that you should resolve for your own health and safety.
/out
Long comment zero content. You have proven my point
Leftists aren't liberals and liberals aren't leftists. Everyone knows both parties are bad. One is worse though.
LOL like I'm going to watch some rando's favorite youtube video.
Lol lmao
See, the problem can’t be capitalism because to do away with that would change things. And change scares me. So, I want to conserve what we have now. But, don’t call me a conservative. /s