Thanks for that. Most commenters (me too) got totally triggered by that stupid headline, but this is fucking disgusting. But I’m getting tired of going into details with this admin, because even if one or two things it does aren’t completely evil, that cannot change my final judgement. But having somebody extract the main points helps, thank you again.
Also for ending on a positive note. It’s not naive to believe this shitshow will end rather sooner than later, and doomerism doesn’t help.
Yeah, it really bothers me. Especially stuff like the DailyBeast and MidasTouch. They’re just so clickbaity and editorialized, hyperbolizing and spinning and just in general not being good journalism.
Like, there are so many factual and accurate ways to criticize the current administration. Let’s just stick to the facts and avoid reactionary sensationalism, because that just discredits all the legitimate critique. It’s a lot harder to argue with someone when they’re used to hearing that kind of bullshit and tuning out anything that sounds remotely similar.
And then whenever I call out bad journalism, disinformation, logical fallacies, or other bad-faith arguments, people attack me as if I’m attacking the position itself and not the presentation of it. I might support socialism, but if someone frames it in a way that does more harm than good I can critique their framing of it without disagreeing with the overall conclusion.
But a lot of people really seem to lack that nuance. It makes it really hard to have an intelligent discussion without being flooded with strawman arguments in response, arguing against points that I didn’t make.
Thanks for that. Most commenters (me too) got totally triggered by that stupid headline, but this is fucking disgusting. But I’m getting tired of going into details with this admin, because even if one or two things it does aren’t completely evil, that cannot change my final judgement. But having somebody extract the main points helps, thank you again.
Also for ending on a positive note. It’s not naive to believe this shitshow will end rather sooner than later, and doomerism doesn’t help.
Yeah, it really bothers me. Especially stuff like the DailyBeast and MidasTouch. They’re just so clickbaity and editorialized, hyperbolizing and spinning and just in general not being good journalism.
Like, there are so many factual and accurate ways to criticize the current administration. Let’s just stick to the facts and avoid reactionary sensationalism, because that just discredits all the legitimate critique. It’s a lot harder to argue with someone when they’re used to hearing that kind of bullshit and tuning out anything that sounds remotely similar.
And then whenever I call out bad journalism, disinformation, logical fallacies, or other bad-faith arguments, people attack me as if I’m attacking the position itself and not the presentation of it. I might support socialism, but if someone frames it in a way that does more harm than good I can critique their framing of it without disagreeing with the overall conclusion.
But a lot of people really seem to lack that nuance. It makes it really hard to have an intelligent discussion without being flooded with strawman arguments in response, arguing against points that I didn’t make.