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Wait, unless I believe that, I might want to get my bullshit detector checked out? I'm just reading what is posted on this website man and it seems fine to me.

Wait, unless I believe that, I might want to get my bullshit detector checked out? I'm just reading what is posted on this website man and it seems fine to me. I don't filter information through social validation mechanisms to determine if something is true or not. I don't know why you brought all these unrelated topics up, but that kind of seems like what you're doing.

antonvs 16d ago
If you believe in Great Replacement theory, then your entire belief system would be the problem. But otherwise, you're reading right-wing propaganda, sucking it up, and saying "seems fine to me". > I don't filter information through social validation mechanisms to determine if something is true or not. There are plenty of indications of bias in the article I linked on that site. If you're not picking up on those, then yes, you need to work on your bullshit detection. > I don't know why you brought all these unrelated topics up, but that kind of seems like what you're doing. They're not "unrelated topics". I pointed out a clearly biased article on a site you thought wasn't biased, and I demonstrated where the author is coming from with an interview with him. If you can't connect those dots... Whew.
- adamrezich 16d ago
  > There's a related story on the effort.news site, "The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups." It has a strong implicit slant, focusing heavily on the how the organizations in question oppose Trump's policies - although the article frames this as opposition to Trump himself. Please highlight the offending sentence(s) in that article for me, because I can't find them. It is obviously true that the Biden administration was more friendly to the groups in question than the Trump administration has been—this should be entirely uncontroversial. Hopefully you're not referring to e.g. > Politically, they are fervent and frequently cited critics of Trump’s immigration policies. such that you think the article would be demonstrably improved by replacing “Trump's” with “the Trump administration's”, as a means of somehow making the article become “more unbiased”? The article you're referring to quite plainly lays out facts with citations for its claims—just because the author may lean one way or the other, and you can prove as much from places he's appeared elsewhere, doesn't mean that the article itself is unbiased. Unless by “unbiased” you mean “free from potential ideological contamination caused by having beliefs that run contrary to my own”…?

antonvs 16d ago

If you believe in Great Replacement theory, then your entire belief system would be the problem. But otherwise, you're reading right-wing propaganda, sucking it up, and saying "seems fine to me". > I don't filter information through social validation mechanisms to determine if something is true or not. There are plenty of indications of bias in the article I linked on that site. If you're not picking up on those, then yes, you need to work on your bullshit detection. > I don't know why you brought all these unrelated topics up, but that kind of seems like what you're doing. They're not "unrelated topics". I pointed out a clearly biased article on a site you thought wasn't biased, and I demonstrated where the author is coming from with an interview with him. If you can't connect those dots... Whew.

adamrezich 16d ago
> There's a related story on the effort.news site, "The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups." It has a strong implicit slant, focusing heavily on the how the organizations in question oppose Trump's policies - although the article frames this as opposition to Trump himself. Please highlight the offending sentence(s) in that article for me, because I can't find them. It is obviously true that the Biden administration was more friendly to the groups in question than the Trump administration has been—this should be entirely uncontroversial. Hopefully you're not referring to e.g. > Politically, they are fervent and frequently cited critics of Trump’s immigration policies. such that you think the article would be demonstrably improved by replacing “Trump's” with “the Trump administration's”, as a means of somehow making the article become “more unbiased”? The article you're referring to quite plainly lays out facts with citations for its claims—just because the author may lean one way or the other, and you can prove as much from places he's appeared elsewhere, doesn't mean that the article itself is unbiased. Unless by “unbiased” you mean “free from potential ideological contamination caused by having beliefs that run contrary to my own”…?