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>Any other suggestion for fixing the problem of „fake truths“ in politics? There's no problem of "fake truths" in politics. It's a recently made-up "problem",
by coldtea 2y ago
>Any other suggestion for fixing the problem of „fake truths“ in politics?
There's no problem of "fake truths" in politics. It's a recently made-up "problem", used to justify controlling.
Politics is the very process of working out disagreements on what is the truth and what needs to be done. You can't agree on truth in advance.
- viraptor 2y agoThat works for people interested in working out disagreements. There's a large number interested in just shouting their lies again every time they're debated. The concept of posting something slightly incorrect to get people to disagree with you, just so you can grow the number of your followers (who don't care) has really only became a thing since Twitter and it's definitely used for political reasons.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- coldtea 2y agoOr the mountain of lies rightists and centrists around the world used to justify imperialism, capitalism, seggregation - all the way to colonialism and slavery.
- rayiner 2y agoSingapore, QED.
- viraptor 2y agoIt's really not clear what timescale you're talking about here. Specifically - do you mean today's tankies (in which case it's new), or people at the time of the Soviet union (in which case, where were they posting these incorrect opinion in order to generate outrage that gets them more popular with the algorithm)?
- g-b-r 2y agoThere's every problem in fake truths, and the recent phenomenon is people so entrenched in troll farm lies to come to believe that truth is impossible. Politics is the process of lying so well that you can get things your way.