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Disinformation is the deliberate use of lies to manipulate people, whether to extract profit or to advance a political agenda. Its unwitting accomplice, misinformation, is spread by unknowing dupes who repeat lies they believe to be true. In America today, both forms of falsehood are distorting our perception of reality.
In a democracy, the people need a shared set of facts as a basis to debate and make decisions that advance and secure their collective interests. Differences of opinion, and even propaganda, have always existed in the United States, but now, enemies of democracy are using disinformation to attack our sovereign right to truthful information, intellectual integrity, and the exercise of the will of the people. Online disinformation is particularly insidious because of its immediacy, its capacity to deceive, and its ability to reach its target.
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.
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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.
your accusation of bad faith is, itself, bad faith
>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
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
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