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If someone tells outright lies for a living, it is a useful heuristic to reject everything they say out of hand. It marginalizes them and ostracizes them from
by rconti 7y ago
If someone tells outright lies for a living, it is a useful heuristic to reject everything they say out of hand.
It marginalizes them and ostracizes them from civil society in precisely the way they deserve, and increases your likelihood of finding the truth.
Note: this is different from assuming the truth is the OPPOSITE of what they say.
- Bendingo 7y ago> tells outright lies for a living I'm not going to defend Alex Jones here, but surely you realise that this metric includes many main stream, "respected" media organisations?
- danso 7y agoHow so?
- manicdee 7y agoIf you include any Murdoch property in that list, you need to revisit your list.
- rconti 7y agoI don't have time for your "they all do it" false equivalency. I try to consume sources that generally do their best to get it right.
- shard972 7y agoAnyone could argue Alex generally gets it right compared to many media outlets commonly cited. Just because you have different views on truth, doesn't make the two any different.