• @Dasus
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    53 hours ago

    There are no “alternative facts”.

    Either something is factual or it isn’t.

    Facts may sometimes seem to contradict each other, when we don’t have the full picture, but objective reality doesn’t contradict itself.

    • The Picard ManeuverOP
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      What about selective presentation of true facts?

      I see that type of bias in social media circles a lot, and it also feels like people building their own “reality”. Facts that are convenient to the group’s current beliefs are loudly shared and repeated, while ones that would cause friction are barely noted, if shared at all.

      • @Dasus
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        What about selective presentation of true facts?

        Well that’s just manipulating people to believe what you want. Ie “propaganda” more or less. Basically sophistry of a sort

        Having a distorted view of reality won’t change reality itself. It will only change your “reality” (insofar that a person’s reality is the things they think / experience / believe in), not the objective one.

  • @masquenox
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    23 hours ago

    Bullshit take.

    We have literally just witnessed the decades old Zionist propaganda project (one of the holiest of liberalism’s holy cows) come crashing down because, for the first time since 1948, the vast majority of people on the planet had access to information about it that wasn’t curated for them by the designers and sponsors of said propaganda project.

    So no… the attempts to distort and manipulate information does NOT invalidate the value of the truth being out there.

  • @DandomRude
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    106 hours ago

    If you look around the world, it seems to me that the information age was quite short and the disinformation age has long since begun.

    • @Dasus
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      Disinformation is technically a type of information. Same a misinformation.

      Those have both increased, so all types of information have pretty much increased.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 hours ago

        Semantically yes but practically no if the goal is to know truth. People know a lot of bullshit but technically they believe bullshit but language is imprecise.

        • @Dasus
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          13 hours ago

          I mean it isn’t correct information. I know that in everyday conversation “information” means “actually factual information” or “correct information” or whatever to that extent.

          But like technically false information is still a type of information. I’m just pedantic, don’t mind me. I’m not arguing anything and I hate the fuckers who believe in all that pseudosciencebullshit and think there are “alternate facts”. No. Objective reality doesn’t contradict itself lol. We may sometimes think it does, but it doesn’t.

  • @niktemadur
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    278 hours ago

    This comic makes it sound like there was a more ideal, noble savage past, and we got corrupted from it.
    What I’m saying this: this comic falls into the trap it itself is writing about.

    • @danc4498
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      76 hours ago

      Plus the lines are poorly drawn

  • Ech
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    98 hours ago

    “Facts” is a strong word for what most people choose.