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I started off reading your post and was agreeing with you, until you really got into listing issues that are gray areas. Yes, an election date is a fact. Claim
by zpeti 6y ago
I started off reading your post and was agreeing with you, until you really got into listing issues that are gray areas.
Yes, an election date is a fact. Claiming something else easily constitutes voter suppression. I don't know what laws the US has around this but I imagine a court could easily criminally punish entities for doing this.
However - especially when it comes to covid, you really are in gray areas. And even the authority makes mistakes, how do you then "fact check it"? When the WHO claims in january its not airborne, or Fauci says don't wear masks one month, and wear them a month later? When the WHO says lock down your countries, and just this week says actually you shouldn't? Hydroxychloroquine was used in many countries, by medical doctors. Just because trump said he is taking it doesn't make it a conspiracy theory. At the time there were legitimate doctors trying legitimate theories. Even if it turned out to be false, it's ridiculous to claim this issue is black and white.
- projct 6y agoNice straw man! Covid infection fatality rates (in other words, what bleepblorp actually used as an example) are well known and not at all grey. Other stuff about covid that you picked to knock down his argument, is, in fact grey. His point was that there is a lot that can be done about obvious falsehoods, not that we have to decide on every single grey area.