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[+] [S] 0 points 10 months ago* (6 children)
  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

    You're moving the goalposts. My claim has been, and continues to be, that it is your framing of these stories, their near-plausibility, and your clearly disingenuous trolling and strawmanning when challenged, that have made me take this seriously. If there were ANY indication that these were satire to a user coming from a feed, who cannot see your sidebar, then I would take no issue. If you weren't so glib when called out, I would reserve judgement. But here we are.

    Re: your edit: I've stopped blocking people and communities, because I would prefer to be able to challenge those with whom I disagree. In fact, it was someone with whom I vehemently disagreed who convinced me that the only person who benefits from their dissenters blocking them is the person being blocked.

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  • [+] [S] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    Allow me to level with you:

    I am as close as I believe is possible to being a priest of knowledge. I genuinely believe that communication in bad faith is a detriment to the world. I came to this platform to avoid the propaganda and censorship of knowledge on Reddit. And I have found this community on Lemmy (which you so disparage as to call it nonexistent) where, for the most part (aside from the tankies), people interact honestly, if melodramatically. The thing with which I take issue here is, ultimately, that these posts — this community — contribute to a dissolution of trust in what is true, wearing the trappings of journalism, but without anything real. That the person posting these lies appears so flippant toward the concerns and criticism of others makes me more concerned. I do not take lightly a troll in my midst.

    But, ultimately, my problem with your posts can be reduced to this:

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