It’s so artful in its imitation of the form of a lot of genuine climate and economic doomerism that gets published on the net, that it’s easy to miss that it tends to always come back around in the end to the same handful of highly dubious conclusions:
- The UK trying to move away from fossil fuels is a horrifying blunder which is sure to lead to economic disaster
- Specifically, it needs to start buying Russian oil and gas again
- Oh by the way, the war in Ukraine is a bad idea
Draw whatever conclusions you like.
I’ve banned that domain from piefed.social. One of the things I’m really trying to do with my instance is politically-aware moderation so I will really appreciate any future posts like this.
I have a whole list of opinions about dubious sources and accounts. I also spent some time coding up some improvements to MBFC bot, letting it use Wikipedia’s list of reliable sources, which is one that’s had enough effort put into it that it’s a pretty worthwhile source of bias data, unlike MBFC. As far as I know, Rooki’s done nothing with my work so far, but it’s still there.
If you want to talk about good ways it might be possible to get the political awfulness out of piefed.social communities, I would love that conversation and the opportunity to help. I was serious about what I said about not completely agreeing that moderation should be the “judge” of what can belong in the community, point of view wise, but I’m sure with some care there’s a robust way to combat the misinformation without doing that.