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Commented on a post with the most recent (non-Breitbart) headline and updates. Added this with 3 independent sources:

FYI, Breitbart is a far-right, low-quality source.

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Mod apparently didn’t like a more reputable source being added to their post because it was removed in minutes lol.

reason: Rule 6 Violation

Rule 6: Using the Poisoning The Well fallacy to attack sources shared in a post is presently not allowed (this rule may change in the future, and isolated instances will not subject you to a permanent ban)

Just admit you want an echo chamber to spread disinformation and promote biased articles! Using this rule to police sources is very thinly-veiled censorship…

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    6 days ago

    But if, say, an official says he thinks something about how Trump is running things, that’s interesting. If a new poll comes out about sentiment amongst voters about how Trump is running things, that’s interesting. And Rachel Maddow blogs, which I share in @opeds@thelemmy.club here and there are, if not interesting, at the very least a perspective shared by a non-insignificant portion of the population.

    You know good and well that none of any of that is what I am talking about, or the reason people are giving you static about your postings.

    Correct. I’m not going to run around sharing links to conspiracy theories, that is completely different.

    Yeah, in hindsight I wasn’t entirely correct

    …

    I’m not going to run around sharing links to conspiracy theories

    You told me that people of certain ethnicities weren’t getting prosecuted in some jurisdictions, because the DA had just decided that they were going to be above the law because they were POC. Then when I asked for details, you said maybe that wasn’t true. But then, you listed some cities where you “have seen this happen.” I can pretty much guarantee you that it’s not happening. You’re free to show me, if you think I am wrong, but I am extremely sure that that doesn’t happen. There are things that kind of sound similar to that after a long game of right-wing-media-telephone, but I would be surprised if there is any jurisdiction anywhere in the country where the rate of POC who get charged with crimes is anything other than significantly higher than the white people.

    I don’t know man. I’m not trying to jump down your throat about it. I’m just saying that it matters. People hopped-up on this kind of stuff have gone out and killed other people. This country is developing itself towards a civil war, and a lot of why it is happening isn’t because people are reading Rachel Maddow on one side and Jordan Peterson on the other side. It’s happening, more than any other single reason, because people are seeing made-up crazy nonsense online and getting themselves amped up on it. There’s a huge difference between just something that isn’t my particular polarization, and something that is both polarized and inflammatory and not even the slightest bit true (and the person who’s saying it doesn’t really seem to care whether it’s true or any of those things).

    I don’t really care about the polarization part. I’m probably in a tiny minority on Lemmy in that regard. I do care about the truth part, and I would hope that a lot of the reason you’re getting flak about your postings isn’t just that they’re political in a certain way, but also that you’re unapologetically including content from known liars.