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[–] 53 points 3 years ago (18 children)

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.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago (17 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (10 children)

    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

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    "Oh you have a sound counter argument? What a way to put words in my mouth. Also here's some wikipedia links without me explaining how your arguments connect to them."

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago*

    That reminds me of the trot here once who wanted me to read the wikipedia page on Tibet in lieu of giving me actual arguments as to how Tibet was before the revolution.

    You: makes a one-off sentence

    Trot: heh, unfortunately, you haven't read the entire wikipedia page on this issue

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (14 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 43 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Liberals are basically a cult at this point, I honestly don't think it's possible to engage with them in a meaningful way. They've basically constructed a narrative regarding how the world works, and anything that doesn't fit into that narrative gets discarded. Amusingly, libs are able to recognize this behavior in other cults like qanon, but are not able to apply the same analysis to themselves.

    I suspect it's going to take a crisis that affect these people in a tangible material way for them to start questioning their beliefs and examining things in a critical fashion.

    And the types of replies in that thread are basically a learned behavior where libs just dismiss things they don't want to hear and expect the rest of the libs to pile on to downvote.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (17 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 45 points 3 years ago (16 children)

    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. 😂

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    It's already starting to happen in lemmy.ml, saw a post in world news where they called someone a neo Nazi for pointing out a pro Ukraine article was written by a Ukrainian govt official. Chaos ensued.

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    LMAO just checked c/ukraine on lemmy.ml and it's completely overrun by libs inventing reality. It's going to be absolutely incredible to watch the meltdowns when it becomes obvious that the west is losing the war.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Wait it is not obvious yet? how obvious are we talking here?

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  • [–] [S] 35 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Reality hasn't pierced the bubble yet, in mainstream lib circles Ukraine is still winning and Russian army is falling apart. Putin is about to be overthrown any day now.

    I expect that the turning point will be when US cuts and runs. The failed offensive likely moved up the timeline for that significantly. It's going to be interesting to see how NATO meeting goes in July.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    And we're the ones who want to exist in self-affirming spaces? Liberals can't see the hypocrisy of decrying the far-right yet acting exactly like them.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    They left reddit because of reddit bullshit and the first thing they want to do in this new space is create the exact same conditions that made reddit crap.

    This is colonialism all over again.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I swear to god, when this shit is finished I'm going to bottle liberals tears and drink it with vodka. I fucking can't wait enough for the West to fall, I hate so much having to interact with these people.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Damn, I can't respond to the one lib because they're banned from lemmygrad.

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Holy crap, this guy BrooklynMan:

    I’ll start by addressing your second question first: bias isn’t a binary; it exists on a spectrum. there’s a difference between a tiny bit of bias and extreme bias. So, though previous research and experience, I have come to trust some sources more than others and come to expect certain sources to have more or less bias in one direction or another. that, combined with comparative analysis of multiple sources, one can come closer to factual reporting through one’s own critical analysis of the reporting itself-- however, depending on what’s reported and the sources available, sometimes… one can only be so certain that one is getting the truth.

    it can be frustrating trying to find accurate reporting of a story, even from previously trusted sources. I encourage people to read their news from multiple sources whose backgrounds they’ve investigated and to critically analyze the facts presented, and that they apply their own critical analysis to try their best to arrive as close as they can to the facts. Also, to realize that, in the world of corporate media, that being certain that the news you’re consuming is 100% accurate my not be possible.

    Has anything libbier ever been spewed?

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I love how BrooklynMan fundamentally doesn't understand what bias actually is.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Well, yeah. He's a lib. (They found out material reality is biased against liberalism, and so they decided to cancel it).

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 3 years ago

    The conviction that reality has to conform to whatever the mainstream consensus is does seem to be the core of liberal ideology. It's like the whole ideology is premised on the argumentum ad populum.

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    [–] 26 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    "Cool argument, but this link debunks you. Checkmate."

    Edit: On a serious note, I think those two are breaking the main instance rule on spam.

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  • [–] [S] 39 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    They haven't made a single comment with any substance. I specifically and repeatedly tried to tease one out of them.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I am an incredibly sceptical person, i read dozens of news sources from countries all around the world, private business news, western state funded news, middle eastern, conservative, nationalist, socialist, im obsessed with learning the narratives around the world and how each society interacts with geopolitics. Never in my life have I found the west so full of shit on a subject, maybe aside for wmds, this conflict has been constantly and consistently lied about in every western news source. Its honestly remarkable, i regularly compare and contrast pro ukraine and pro russian sources down to military movements reports of casualties, wins losses, everything and 90% of the time the Russian information is accurate or damn close to accurate and the ukrainians are just outright lying.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    i prefer not to waste my time on speculation from biased sources.

    fair question, but I’m sorry that I may disappoint you in saying that I doubt any news source is (or even could be) completely unbiased. major newswire sources do try by only reporting raw facts, but even they let bias slip in when editors choose which facts to report.

    So what you're saying, Brooklyn Man, and expect me to believe, is that you have no beliefs and dont listen to anyone. what a moron

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