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Well you seem to have your own, very strongly held, beliefs about all of these topics. The pizza thing is obviously wrong, the vast majority of people know it's

by Dig1t 4y ago

Well you seem to have your own, very strongly held, beliefs about all of these topics. The pizza thing is obviously wrong, the vast majority of people know it's wrong. Censoring those kinds of crazy ideas in public discourse just emboldens its believers further because they see your censorship as an attempt to stop them from getting their "truth" out. I think it would be better to let them talk openly about their crazy pizza conspiracies, eventually they will encounter better arguments and lose. If you are saying that there is no nuance, no gray areas at all, to the topics of abortion, election integrity, gun ownership, etc then you are no better than the ideologues on Fox news, just in the opposite direction.

michaelmrose 4y ago
More dialogue actually doesn't help conspiracy theorists learn better it just helps them spread their crazy to a broader audience which is why one in five Americans believe in some aspect of Qanon. It's not censorship to not spread the crazy. Let them spread it on their own platforms. There really is little nuance regarding election integrity. Trump definitively lost. The only disputes with a shred of substance were themselves procedural quibbles like arguing that a given legislature overstepped its authority by offering mail in balloting and attempting to use this to argue that the proper resolution to overreach would be to throw out the legitimately cast ballots of those following government instruction in order to reach claimants preferred outcome. Lets do abortion next. Almost all the meaningful brain development that produces a human like being rather than a human looking being happens in the third trimester whereas almost all abortions happen in the first and overwhelmingly consist of mom to be swallowing pills terminate something as intelligent as mold. The nuance was covered 50 years ago and then again and again with redundant laws designed to protect the fetus from fictional partial birth abortions that were already illegal twice or three times over. Having already achieved the goal of keeping human like beings from being killed decades prior there is little nuance left to deal with. If you have an hour we could do gun control too. I noticed you didn't mention the other controversies presumably because you don't regard them as meaningful controversies. Kudos.

by Dig1t 4y ago

michaelmrose 4y ago

More dialogue actually doesn't help conspiracy theorists learn better it just helps them spread their crazy to a broader audience which is why one in five Americans believe in some aspect of Qanon. It's not censorship to not spread the crazy. Let them spread it on their own platforms. There really is little nuance regarding election integrity. Trump definitively lost. The only disputes with a shred of substance were themselves procedural quibbles like arguing that a given legislature overstepped its authority by offering mail in balloting and attempting to use this to argue that the proper resolution to overreach would be to throw out the legitimately cast ballots of those following government instruction in order to reach claimants preferred outcome. Lets do abortion next. Almost all the meaningful brain development that produces a human like being rather than a human looking being happens in the third trimester whereas almost all abortions happen in the first and overwhelmingly consist of mom to be swallowing pills terminate something as intelligent as mold. The nuance was covered 50 years ago and then again and again with redundant laws designed to protect the fetus from fictional partial birth abortions that were already illegal twice or three times over. Having already achieved the goal of keeping human like beings from being killed decades prior there is little nuance left to deal with. If you have an hour we could do gun control too. I noticed you didn't mention the other controversies presumably because you don't regard them as meaningful controversies. Kudos.