• SaltSong@startrek.website
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    12 hours ago

    I’m not playing devil’s advocate. I’m trying to get people on my side of the political divide to stop supporting their ideas with falsehoods. That is one way the right wing is able to attract a certain kind of adherent. They just have to point to things like this, where we say, and support, a false idea that we demonstrably don’t even believe ourselves.

    If our ideas are good, we only need the truth to make them look good.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Falsehoods? Like equating municipally owned water towers and privately owned charging stations?

      You’re 100% playing devil’s advocate and drawing false equivalencies. Trying to sound like what you’re saying matters only works when what you’re saying… actually matters.