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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The intent of someone's speech, or even its outcome, does not make it incorrect. A culture of hiding from reality thinking in doing so it will give us certain outcomes is what this practice will create.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Saying something that is technically correct is still wrong if it is done so in a way that causes people to be hurt unnecessarily.

Edit: Strawmaning me while talking about how truth is important is the biggest irony.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

So we need to shut people up who's information we percieve will give us outcomes we don't like? I guess the nazis gave that ago and if it worked for them I guess we should do the same. But if we have decided to live in a post-truth world of our own creation, how are we going to make an honest assessment of what true information is actually harmful. We could just be lying to ourselves about that too.

Here is a good rule of thumb. Never lie to yourself. Never hide from information. Anything else is just developing anti-intellectual habits.

It kind of reminds me of a quote from And Justice For All from Metallica. "Seeking no truth. Winning is all. Fighting so grim so true so real."

When both sides frame what is true or false by what will help them win that that's how you end up with a post truth world. Of course that can be easily corrected by lying to ourselves again and claiming that only one side has blame. There is nothing a lie to ourselves can't fix.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Never lie to yourself. Never hide from information. Anything else is just developing anti-intellectual habits.

I agree. However, the entirety of your comment fails to address what I've said. Would you like to try again?

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

??? "Keeping people from voting is literally the only way Republicans can stay in office" is just such an objectively false statement I don't know where to start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The above statement is so obviously false that I don't know how to start debunking it.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you’re making a both sides bad post, be sure to suggest that people vote for a third party, got it!

Btw, have you heard about the party for socialism and liberation? They’re running Claudia de la Cruz for president on a platform of Palestinian liberation and stopping weapons shipments to Israel!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

List of reasons World should defederate from ML:

Edit: This is the party they're advocating for. What a fitting username they've chosen. Picture in case they decide to delete the tweet. Cowards every single one of them. Fake leftists, Tankies, and Traitors to their chosen name. How dare they use the word "Liberation" to describe themselves while advocating the condemnation of Ukraine to tyranny.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

That must be why they haven’t done so!

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