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> Is it "false and misleading" to say that (say) Joe Biden is corrupt? The post your replying to says "the most corrupt American history", and links to and art

• lapcat 3y ago
  > The post your replying to says "the most corrupt American history" That post was edited after my reply, possibly in response to my reply. My quote was accurate at the time.
  • lisper 3y ago
    Actually, I edited it before I saw your replay, because it occurred to me after I posted that the way I had originally phrased it was open to exactly that criticism. But it's neither here nor there. The only thing that matters is that there are examples of things being advanced as truth by large numbers of people that pretty clearly are not actually true (even though they sound plausible), and I think it's pretty clear that that is true even if a specific example that I picked out of a hat wasn't a particularly good one.
    • lapcat 3y ago
      I agree that I was following a bit of a tangent. However, I do wonder how it's even possible to be committed to the idea of truth if one can so easily overlook the obvious flaws of one's own "side", always immediately changing the subject to the badness of the other side.
      • lisper 3y ago
        Do you think I was doing that? What do you think my "side" is?