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> I can see that factually incorrect, scientifically illiterate, conspiratorial, harmful crank ideas gain legs in the online world we've created. The fact that
by wyager 5y ago
> I can see that factually incorrect, scientifically illiterate, conspiratorial, harmful crank ideas gain legs in the online world we've created.
The fact that you phrase your characterization of incorrect ideas like this suggests with pretty high certainty that you don’t exactly have a great birds’-eye view of the epistemic landscape yourself. People who characterize the “opposition” this way mostly get their ideas from NPR-tier Pravda publications, and aren’t exactly better suited for picking out “better models of truth and reality”.
- archagon 5y agoThe fact that you equivocate NPR and Pravda means you’ve huffed plenty of those fumes yourself.
- wyager 5y ago> Voting Republican is to enact fascism and tear down the tenants of democracy in the US You seem like a skilled political analyst, so I defer to your expertise. One correction - it’s spelled “tenets”.
- Nursie 5y agoI don’t characterise “the opposition” this way. I characterise some of the more prominent ‘fringe’ stuff as this. I don’t really have an ‘us’ for there to be a singular ‘them’ I’m talking about, I’m not American and I don’t identify with any particular political party.