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Disinformation should be met with good information. If you don't want to do that, that's 100% fine, but blocking a community because you think they might spread disinformation isn't the way.
Now, if they're routinely posting disinformation and it seems intentional instead of ignorance, then yeah, maybe we should defederate. But to do that, we need multiple examples of it and reports to their mods/admins that go nowhere. So far, I've seen exactly none of that, so I don't think we should defederate, regardless of how much I disagree with their content.
Alright meet this with good information and I'll argue as a maga person. Vaccines cause autism. Also Tylenol. Also climate change is a hoax and all studies that point to it being real are liberal propaganda. Trans people are also mentally ill and not real. Leftists are extremely violent. Immigrants are violent and taking all our jobs. Immigrants mooch off the system. Guns keep people safe. Sandy hook was a false flag operation. Protestors are paid off by George soros.
I will now repeat this 50 times + 50 other conspiracy theories in the time it takes you to get a source for one of these claims, and once you get a source I will say "that source is liberal" and move on to another 20 conspiracies. This is literal poison for your brain. Whether you consciously realize it or not, hearing something objectively false enough times you start to believe it more.
This doesn't even mention the hate spread on that sub. Some examples: https://maga.place/c/LiberalLunatics
Dogwhistle that leftists are violent https://maga.place/post/18102
More divisiveness... https://maga.place/post/19232 +500 mentions of "woke liberal gets destroyed!!"
Here is about 20% of the posts from the last 30 days. 1/5 posts are propaganda.
https://maga.place/post/14921 Misinfo, she said "it's a common lie," did not dodge the question but did not answer it how they wanted.
https://maga.place/post/13936 Misleading at best, some people donated from abroad but they frame it as he is funded by some Arab investor and thats the only reason he's winning
https://maga.place/post/13207 misinfo again, all he talks about is fighting against authoritarianism
https://maga.place/post/12023 Hey this one is a perfect example, I wouldn't know this is fake except I personally got a ballet and know this person just hole punched through the envelope!
https://maga.place/post/10435 More fake news, they interviewed SOME people and implied this represents all of California.
I'm curious if I were spreading constant lies about how it was actually your friends and family that were raping and killing people and ruining America and do not deserve a trial, would you still champion my right not only to say that, but be seen by a wide audience? All you need to do is prove the first 5 lies false, while I make 20 more up.
Btw can you believe the democrats shut down the government?
And what percent of people actually believe that nonsense? Very few! Why? Because we do a reasonably good job educating the public.
There will always be people who believe some crazy conspiracy, but they're usually very much in the minority.
Posts you linked
There are three posts. Three. And none of them have any votes.
I could find so many examples of the opposite (hurt durr conservatives) on this instance and others and instances federated with it.
No comments and it's just a picture.
Is this the right post? This is just an article about shoplifting.
This is all pretty typical political mudslinging. If I had a nickel for every piece of misinfo I saw about Trump or Johnson, I'd have a few dollars. The same is true when Democrats are in power.
Yeah, that's pretty bad, but I would give the benefit of the doubt because it's easy to assume someone is right online, esp when you don't live in the area. My state has a similar hole (one, not two), so I always double check nothing is visible. If this was the case, it's pretty easy to just flip the ballot around...
This is a pretty typical strategy of finding a few people and claiming a trend. It happens on all political sides, and isn't really indicative of anything other than a crappy source, which Fox News is.
The first, yes, the second, no. You have a right to say whatever you want, I have a right to not listen or platform you. The only time your right to say what you want should be curtailed is if your speech amounts to an actual threat of violence, or a call for violence.
But this has nothing to do with whether we should federate or not. What you showed me is a bunch of conservative talking points and slanted news. There's plenty of liberal talking points and slanted news posted here and on federated instances, yet I don't see a call to defederate from those instances.
Yes. Both parties are responsible here. It's their constitutional duty to pass a budget. Republicans control the House, so it's more in their court than the Dems, but both have a shared responsibility to pass a budget.
Republicans will likely get the worst of it in the midterms.
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