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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I find your arguments sound and well-sourced, and I appreciate you sharing your experience.

Utterly unsure of where the controversy is, but those downdoots are lookin mighty. I think it's important for communists to do self-reflection like this. We have the truth on our side, and should be willing to criticize ourselves for accidentally spreading dis/misinformation. I've had to do it. I apologized and rectified my mistake to the people I misinformed, even though I agreed with the ideals what I shared presented. (In this case, the thing I shared was a completely believable mass shooter's alleged Facebook post about hating Asian women, right before he murdered them. The post was faked. It presented the shooter as a vile racist, which he most certainly was -- he killed 8 people, 6 of them being Asian women -- so why fucking fake it?

I'd wager to create traps for us to fall into, so we can be discredited and ignored. But I'm pretty paranoid.

The point is still the same when the true numbers are shown, and it still hits hard enough. There is absolutely no need to lie or exaggerate. Why did the creator of this graph?