Comment by boxed
9 days ago
> Is there really any point in being careful with the facts?
If you don't believe in facts and truth, you are just as big of a problem as Trump is.
9 days ago
> Is there really any point in being careful with the facts?
If you don't believe in facts and truth, you are just as big of a problem as Trump is.
To charitably-interpret the parent-poster, they didn't say that.
More like... Truth is important to convey, lies are not permitted, but meticulous and detailed truth simply doesn't work against lies with better marketing.
You shouldn't surround your truth with a bodyguard of lies, but just throwing on more Truth as a raw ingredient doesn't advance the cause of people actually adopting Truth.
Yeah this is a much better way to say what I was trying to get at.
Yea ok. I do agree with that.
I like to say that the US used to have "the marketplace of ideas" as a goal, but has now become "the cesspool of ideas", which isn't a good thing.
I don't know what the solution to that is, but I don't think lying is going to get us out of it.
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>believe in facts and truth
What’s that mean? In how cool and fun they are? In their capacity to win elections?