Microblog Memes @lemmy.world The Picard Maneuver @lemmy.world 2d ago

Missing a slam-dunk headline

(FYI - the article that the guy is replying to is misinformation. Two commenters have provided snopes links for anyone curious.)

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Oops, this is some misinformation, friend. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rfk-wellness-farms/

Exaggerated claims designed to provoke a reaction, even in humorous contexts like this, make it harder for us to perceive and react to actual dangerous threats that might come our way. And we're definitely going to need to have an accurate and truthful view of the world in the coming days.

It's a good joke, it's a great joke even, but even so, we shouldn't spread misinformation.
- I was posting more for the funny reply, rather than to share the original article, but I can put a note in the post body that the pictured quoted article is misinformation.
- What an absolute asshole of a journalist you have to be to twist someone's words like that.
- Tfw you say something and everyone hates it and then someone else comes by and says the same thing in a slightly different way and everyone likes it 😑
  
  Its a difference in rhetoric. Yours is antagonistic and the others is measured and fair.
  
  If it's fake news (and it is) then I have every right to say, "Get this fucking bullshit off my feed" (my actual response was quite a bit more measured than that). I shouldn't have to be like, "Haha! Oh that's so funny, you're really smart and clever! Oh, but, fyi, that's kinda misinformation, just so you know!"
  
  Would you rather listen to the blunt truth or to a friendly lie? If it's the latter, then that ought to be called out as well as the original point - falling for a fake news story is entirely excusable, but being unwilling to listen to criticism unless it's phrased nicely and defanged is not.
  
  Shit like this is part of why I use term "Blue MAGA," because you'll find the exact same mentality over there. The facts don't matter, if you don't demonstrate you're one of us, we'll write you off anything you say. Critical thought means listening to criticism, even if it's, "antagonistic."
  
  Well I was trying to be simplistic but since you typed so much, the reason your message isnt received well is because you assume Ill intent by the OP, while the one getting up votes makes no assumptions about intent.
  
  Technically theirs is more accurate because they are acknowledging they can't know the original intent, while you are arguing that its obvious what their intent is.
  
  I said literally nothing about their intent in my comment whatsoever.
  
  That's on you, the .ml in your name means that everything you say is wrong even when you say the truth.
  
  Learn how to lemmy /s
- Idk, I'm sure that many politicians aren't advocating for LGBTQ youth to be "sent" to conversation camps.
- This comment won't age well.

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