Always gotta love the faux-confidence the libs have of knowing they are always right, because they can dismiss anyone who doesn’t agree with them as biased/a shill/propagandist.
Heaven forbid somebody engage in an intellectually honest debate with somebody with a differing opinion. Even if somebody IS spouting propaganda, you don’t become tainted by having a discussion with them; you might even convince a third party who is viewing.
Listen pal, Ukraine is Dumbledore’s Rebellion Army and Russia is goddamn Dark Vader and the Nazis (bad) all rolled into one. Now are you gonna wise up and support the Nazis (good) against the bigoted slavic hordes, or am I gonna have to write more vague masturbatory screeds in the cadence of a West Wing monologue I half-watched once?
That’s what I thought.
Uuuuuuugh, “I don’t like this source” is easily one of my least favorite responses; the respondent may as well not even post since they’re ignoring the content anyway. Yes, the Wall Street Journal is puke, but nobody lies 100% of the time. That’s why you need to learn how to read critically.
There has to be some sort of course that people can take to teach them how to properly scrutinize sources and distinguish between good reporting and rumourmongering, rather than trying to take shortcuts like that.
And what’s up with all of the repetitive definitions and attempts to accuse you of being logically fallacious? It doesn’t make the replier look clever; it’s just extremely embarrassing.
Yes, the Wall Street Journal is puke, but nobody lies 100% of the time. That’s why you need to learn how to read critically.
The point we post explicitly liberal sources is to make liberals think even for just a second. Turns out, it’s still not enough.
And what’s up with all of the repetitive definitions and attempts to accuse you of being logically fallacious?
It’s an old trolling technique, but this guy apparently didn’t even understand how it’s done.
I had a philosophy professor years ago who said that people who make catalogues of logical fallacies don’t really understand logic. The true logician simply examines the argument, notes that it doesn’t follow, and tells you why without using any jargon.
Being on the internet has convinced me this guy was completely correct.
It’s not only an internet, reading philosphy in general i noticed it’s awfully filled with jargon. And it tend to use it in worst possible manner.
Gotta agree. While I enjoy just vibing with the comrades here, having those clashes adds hilarity, memes and develops a culture that made eg GZD so unique.
It’s amazing to see how liberals have no idea what to do when they end up outside their circle jerk. They aren’t able to articulate any actual points, and they’re used to just piling on anyone who says things they disagree with and not have to actually make an argument of their own. My favorite is the guy who keeps linking to wikipedia descriptions of logical fallacies without actually understanding them. 😂
Ukraine community:
In the upper 50-70 posts there’s like 3 your posts critical of the narration and every single other post is straight up either UA propaganda, western repost of UA propaganda or westoid rablings going even further than UA propaganda.
I mean these people have been subjected to some of the most intense propaganda ever deployed for like two years now. Arguably this can even be traced back to the Russiagate conspiracy theory. That primed libs to hate Russia, and then all the Ukraine propaganda just hitches on to that.
Brooklynman is a misgendering reactionary who calls people snowflakes.
The other one is probably his experimental debatebro bot. Only something like 10 lines that have 0 context relevance.
Edit: Now he is using both accounts to doubledownvote everything (in sync)
This is only one person
Holy shit go look at the thread right now, that guy have SERIOUS problems.
They haven’t made a single comment with any substance. I specifically and repeatedly tried to tease one out of them.
Yeah, but I don’t think they’re trying. This is a tactic frequently used on forums like 4chan where they just flood you with copy pasted nonsense to waste your time and discourage discussion. They know what they’re doing and are acting like that intentionally, which is why I’m worried about this becoming normalized on lemmy.ml. Hopefully it dies out just like the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
