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  • Hey guys, I gotta lock this. There's too much devolving into personal attacks and a shit ton of troll baiting. Weekends and major events are ripe for that, we had both this weekend. Please don't fall for it.

  • I understand that the hill published this, but it was an opinion article. I get that some people value that, but they are almost never opinions of people that should have an opinion on the matter. Either way, I don't consider opinion articles to be something that you can nail an organization to the cross over. Just sharing a perspective is all.

    • There have to be consequences for platforming fascists. This whole “civility and decorum” crap has got to stop, we are in a fascist coup and cannot afford to tolerate any enemy activity.

    • You should. Arguably, you should nail the to the cross for opinion pieces more, because opinion pieces exist to launder articles that the paper can't reasonably justify publishing... but still really wants to publish.

      • They can be used for that but they are absolutely not solely for the purpose of misinfo laundering. That's a proposterous and indefensible claim. Fucking ridiculous.

        Look, you can dislike it all you want. I do. I dislike them. And I refuse to read opinion pieces, from anyone. That's what you do when you're intelligent. You check what you're reading before you read it. Do you not check your beverages to ensure they aren't floor cleaner? When your beverage tastes unpalatable do you not remember to check then? At what point does drinking a gallon of bleach become your own fault?

        I hate ads. I stopped watching TV entirely because of how much I despise ads. I wasn't good at manually filtering them out so the responsible things to do was to stop watching TV until I had a solution. So over the years, I found solutions. After a while I was able to use a smart phone completely free of ads. I filtered my data and was able to use a lot of sites again. Now I get all my media from Usenet. Every now and then I walk past a TV at work and it's playing ads and I find it hilarious. I literally forget about ads. And hearing the simple fucks cry about YouTube and chrome is yet another joke for me.

        I can't imagine being so opposed to something only to invest absolutely nothing into remediation and then blaming everyone else for my failure to act. Because that is what you remind me of when I read your response. You don't get to have your bleach and drink it too. At what point does reading an opinion article become your fault?

    • Should organizations platform anything and everything? Should there be no standards?

      • Hey now, they blacklisted Katie Halper for talking about Palestine.

        Never say The Hill doesn't have standards.

      • That's entirely up to them. I sure wish they wouldn't, but capitalism is what it is. And if the mass of metaphorical Beakers hangs their hat on each and every controversial word regardless of bias, then they're going to do that. If platforming chucklefucks keeps the lights on... So there it is.

        There should be standards. Agreed. I have literally no say in that and my opinion means literally nothing on this. However, that doesn't mean calling meaningless shit like this out doesn't hurt the rest of us. I'm as sympathetic as the next person. It sucks. But if we are going to cry wolf and alligator tears every single time an already trash organization does a thing you - without a shadow of a doubt - expect them to do, then you are doing their work for them. Stop hitting yourself.

        Take it on the chin, ignore them, and move on. I work in one of the most remote places on the planet with about 1000 conservatives, and these aren't the GOP "gays are cool now" conservatives, these are the "gays are pedophiles and we should exterminate them all" conservatives. These are InfoWarriors and flat earthers. Deep state theory is assumedly foundational and antiestablishmentarianism is the MO. I pointed out, a single time, that even Alex Jones said Trump was "mobbed up with the russians" and I have been known as "the liberal" since then. These proverbial tweakers are drawn to plausible deniability like a catalytic converter. Sure, they are the lowest common denominator when it comes to human prototypes, but they are also the low tide and they know it. If they can sanitize bigotry then the cool GOPers will be able to use them to justify it. So we (the opposition to authoritarianism) need to sterilize easily defensible shit like this.

        Look at the replies I've received... All I did was point out the plot hole in the assertion implied by OP exposed by the reality that one could say that "the hill" did not say it themselves and furthermore that the hill has a giant warning at the top of the article that literally states they DO NOT hang their hat on opinion pieces (and btw, fuck the hill but they do). All I'm pointing out is to not say the hill explicitly called Harris a liar, because based on the facts, they didn't. Several replies still allude to the culpability of the hill... Which is best case scenario semantic when totally generalized, but more likely consolatory and akin to someone splitting hairs over "travelling" in street basketball.

        "The right" could say that "the left" would polish brass on the titanic. And we could know that they'd said it too. But here we are, God forbid we pass a single piece of brass without giving it a mirror shine and then gasp Pikachu faces when the right says "see?".

        How did we lose the election? Shit like this. We need to be better than this. This is teaching a pig to sing.

        Sensationalism is their game. Leave to play it amongst themselves.

    • An agreeable position if those opinion pieces were written in good faith by a respectable journalist who knows what they're talking about. Honest opinions are never wrong.

      But in today's news it's just a way to publish straight-up misinformation and propaganda, they can just abuse their position to just say whatever and people internalise it because, well, it's the news.

      Journalists and news outlets used to depend upon a reputation of integrity and factuality built over the years. Now anyone can open up their "news" website, or be a politically motivated party with lots of resources, claim completely made-up stuff, and when those articles reveal themselves to be complete bullshit, nothing happens.

      Also, the world seems to really have lost the conception of what is a fact vs what is an opinion, a deduction, a belief, and so on. Guess the nature of Internet communication doesn't help with that.

    • I understand that the hill published this, but it was an opinion article.

      Authored by a far-right talk radio host who fully endorses mass deportation and execution of liberal dissidents, sure.

      • This is where I challenge you to find a single opinion article published by the hill from a reputable person about a worthy opinion. And when you say "that doesn't exist" I'm going to respond "no shit sherlock, that's what an opinion piece is, a disreputable person seeking your unearned attention." Good thing we gave it to them...

    • Also Marines are Navy, so.....technicality?

      • 🤣 Trump really is playing 5D chess. You can't nail him down. He's like a bar of soap, that is also a pedophile.

    • It's worth nothing that "The Hill" has always been liberal garbage.

  • I said he would eventually place armed soldiers on every street corner

    I will stand by that prediction

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