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The problem happens when you start picking and choosing your preferred set of facts, as you are doing here. “What we label disinformation is always X, what we l
by guscost 6y ago
The problem happens when you start picking and choosing your preferred set of facts, as you are doing here. “What we label disinformation is always X, what we label dissent is always Y.”
Many of what you would probably call “facts” I would call “beliefs held by a critical mass of connected people.”
However upset you are about it, there is an enormous counterculture that disagrees with you about the facts, and no amount of rhetoric will ever bully these people into submission.
I find myself necessarily allied with that counterculture, and you can go ahead and call me names like “flat-earther” all you want, it will not make a difference.
- tehwebguy 6y agoBeing intentionally wrong about the shape of the planet isn’t “counter culture”, it’s just “cult”.
- guscost 6y agoYou’re not getting the point. Until you literally force all of its members into a gulag (good luck), the greater counterculture will continue to thrive. You can continue flailing around trying to bully me into giving up my support, or you can accept that fact.