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stele3 · 7 hours

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Okay, this might be an unpopular opinion, but if you want to combat the spread of misinformation then you have to let go of any belief that people not talking about an issue means that they don’t care. The only way to reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation is to research claims before you spread them, and there is so much information constantly being thrown at people through social media and the 24 hour news cycle that it’s impossible to fact check every claim. The same can be said about AI generated images, if you look closely then you can notice certain tells that something is AI generated but no one really has the time to analyze every single image that crosses their path.

If we expect people to talk about and spread information on every social/political/economic issue that occurs then the result will be that people will spread misinformation/disinformation because they will not have the time or mental capacity to research every single thing that happens on Earth just to make sure that they aren’t being fed incorrect information.

Only researching claims that set off a red flag or seem incorrect doesn’t actually do much to prevent misinformation, because there are plenty of claims that will seem correct on the surface or that will align with your view of the world that you won’t think to research. You have to research every claim if you want to avoid misinformation, and you can’t research every claim made by someone online.

The only solution is to accept that some people aren’t going to talk about certain issues, not because they don’t care, but because they have chosen to focus on other issues for the time being and don’t want to talk about an issue that they don’t know much about. And we really need to stop treating that like a bad thing. If you spread yourself too thin then you’re not going to accomplish anything. It’s actually good to have people devoting themselves to learning about and fighting a specific issue, that’s how progress is made.

#misinformation

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stele3 · 8 hours

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Man, sometimes I remember — if the 20th of Maine hadn’t decided to fix bayonets and charge on Little Round Top, the U.S. might still have mass slavery instead of just* prison slavery.

*just

#history #slavery #prison slavery

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stele3 · 8 hours

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JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier. Try to sue me, you transphobe. I live in the U.S., and for all its shit, we can say what we want.

#jk rowling #censorship

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stele3 · 9 hours

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When Hamas came to power in Palestine, they went around murdering sex workers. That should have been the first reg flag for y'all.

dude, the pro-israel shit is wild. you care about babies? how many premature babies died in al-Nasr thanks to israel's assault on a literal hospital? your scale of harm here is completely skewed, israeli forces have straight up murdered more children than were ever kidnapped by hamas.

Again, the fact that you think a post discussing the atrocities of Hamas is somehow pro-Israel propaganda says a lot about you and your inability to reckon with the fact that Hamas is an antisemitic terrorist organization that has been killing Israelis and destroying the lives of Palestinians, using them as human shields and as suicide bombers against their will, for the past 37 years since its founding in 1987.

I also reblogged an article around the same time condemning Netanyahu specifically because his response to all of this has been profoundly unhelpful and definitely does not seem centered around getting the hostages back.

Two things can be true at once:

Hamas is an antisemitic terrorist organization founded solely to commit violence against Israel. Hamas stole power in Gaza and refuses to let Palestinians vote for new leaders. Hamas is not justified and was never justified and will never be justified. Hamas uses Palestinian freedom as an excuse to commit atrocities against Israelis.

The government of Israel has not done enough over the past few decades to cooperate with Palestinians, and the current right-wing administration has used Oct 7th as an excuse to execute ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The IDF and the government of Israel are not innocent in this conflict by any means.

But that child that Hamas kidnapped was innocent. Hamas was wrong for kidnapping him.

I blame Hamas for what is happening in Gaza right now, just as I blame Netanyahu.

#hamas #palestine #israel

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stele3 · 9 hours

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Thank you for the input, I appreciate it, friend.

Hi

Sorry to bring up Aaron Bushnell, but I just started thinking about something that happened, regarding him, a while back, and I wasn’t sure who else to go to

So there is this subreddit that I (generally) agree with politically. And a while back, they pinned a post saying that Bushnell was beyond criticism and banned anyone that was… horrified, essentially, saying they were “concern-trolling libs”. And later, one of the mods admitted that this was done intentionally as a way to weed out and boot liberals who claimed to be leftists in the sub because “every leftist sub gets infiltrated by vote blue shills during an election year”

This doesn’t lead to a larger point, I just need to bounce this off someone and know for sure if it’s fucked up or not, because I genuinely don’t know if I’m the one overreacting

No, you're not overreacting. That's some weird, fucked-up shit.

To be clear, I don't have criticisms of Aaron Bushnell. The guy was raised by a notoriously-abusive cult; he was a victim who the system failed to protect or help. I have a fucking MOUNTAIN of criticisms for anyone who valorized his suicide, but he was very clearly mentally unwell and I mostly feel angry on his behalf.

Now, this subreddit sounds incredibly toxic and designed -- either accidentally or intentionally -- to divide the Left rather than uniting it. Anytime you're in a group that tells you to believe XYZ or face ostracization, be very skeptical and consider leaving that group, because that's cult behavior; if that group is full of Leftists who refuse to vote, then be super skeptical. Chances are good that they're either a right-wing psyop trying to discourage leftists from voting or they're actual leftists who have been taken in by other right-wing psyops and now actually believe that they're Winning at politics...by refusing to participate.

People like this will tell you that the only way for progress to be made is through violence, but then will kick out any potential allies for wrongthink. Like, who's going to fight beside them in the glorious revolution? They've alienated everyone who's even close to them on the political spectrum!

I encourage you to find other subreddits to visit...or better yet, try to join a group IRL! Certainly there's no guarantee that they'll be any less crazy, but maybe look up the DSA or other progressive groups in your area. Or hell, maybe you can join one that meets online.

#aaron bushnell #suicide #us politics #mental health

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