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> If you really think the right-wing republican community is the only group spreading distortions/falsehoods First of all, you mis-read my comment. At no point
by doktrin 9y ago
> If you really think the right-wing republican community is the only group spreading distortions/falsehoods
First of all, you mis-read my comment. At no point did I claim the political right had a monopoly on disseminating misinformation.
Secondly, even though this (and just about everything else) can be spun as a case of "both sides do it / both sides are bad / all sides are bad / etc", there is an obvious difference of scale & magnitude - and scale matters. In modern political American discourse it's clear who more consistently disseminates misinformation, and - as this piece indicates - who is more effective at doing so.
- rtx 9y agoScale matters for results not morality.
- jpfed 9y agoCool- I suppose dropping a 1 kg object on someone's head is morally equivalent to dropping a 1000 kg object on someone's head. It's really only a matter of scale.
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- bjl 9y agoThat's obviously nonsense. Killing 1M people is worse than killing 1.
- rtx 9y agoWhy? Do you mean environmentally, economically, statistically or morally?
- tmaly 9y agoIf you tell a big enough lie often enough, people start to believe it.