Precisely my point. Source is the very first thing I look for when a quote is posted. If there's no source posted, I try going to the tweet in question etc. Why? Because I've actually shared things like this from here that everyone was upvoting, got pinned etc just to have my semi-progressive partner look it up and proving to me it is fake. That was embarrassing and didn't happen just once. Now I've learned my lesson. I'm certain that I'm not the only one on here who's experienced this. It is so so crucial to do our due diligence. How can we be digital warriors who fight for the truth if we don't care about the truth? Confirmation bias is NOT just a woke or normie issue, it concerns us all.
By blatantly lying, dude. If you want me to rephrase it as "our lead is diminishing" then fine, that'd be more accurate but damn...can't act like this is okay.
you are losing focus, this is about the trafficking of humans, mostly women and children, whether the above is true or not doesn't matter, it should be, but it's a small issue compared to trafficking.
focus on the winning. have you seen the US marshals making arrest the last few weeks? All the hunter stuff, europe. we are winning everywhere.
But the truth DOES matter. I wanna live in a world where the truth matters, both at the big and the small scale. I see that we are winning on many fronts and that's great but that doesn't mean we should accept pretty lies that go in our favor. How are we any better than the very people we are fighting with the attitude of "it doesn't matter if it's true or not as long as it supports our cause"?
Trust me I fully understand about child trafficking, I try to awaken as many as I can because everyone needs to know. Lying here will turn noobs away though.
Edit: Also I think maybe some who would be turned away might possibly stay if they see people calling out our own lies.
We're starting to lose ground on the honesty front. Old and/or fake shit presented as news constantly on here...
And we're supposed to be against fake news.
Precisely my point. Source is the very first thing I look for when a quote is posted. If there's no source posted, I try going to the tweet in question etc. Why? Because I've actually shared things like this from here that everyone was upvoting, got pinned etc just to have my semi-progressive partner look it up and proving to me it is fake. That was embarrassing and didn't happen just once. Now I've learned my lesson. I'm certain that I'm not the only one on here who's experienced this. It is so so crucial to do our due diligence. How can we be digital warriors who fight for the truth if we don't care about the truth? Confirmation bias is NOT just a woke or normie issue, it concerns us all.
Same has happened to me. It really sucks when you share it with someone you've spent real time on and who was starting to come around.
how are we losing ground on the "honesty" front? compared to what? MSNBC?
By blatantly lying, dude. If you want me to rephrase it as "our lead is diminishing" then fine, that'd be more accurate but damn...can't act like this is okay.
you are losing focus, this is about the trafficking of humans, mostly women and children, whether the above is true or not doesn't matter, it should be, but it's a small issue compared to trafficking. focus on the winning. have you seen the US marshals making arrest the last few weeks? All the hunter stuff, europe. we are winning everywhere.
But the truth DOES matter. I wanna live in a world where the truth matters, both at the big and the small scale. I see that we are winning on many fronts and that's great but that doesn't mean we should accept pretty lies that go in our favor. How are we any better than the very people we are fighting with the attitude of "it doesn't matter if it's true or not as long as it supports our cause"?
Trust me I fully understand about child trafficking, I try to awaken as many as I can because everyone needs to know. Lying here will turn noobs away though.
Edit: Also I think maybe some who would be turned away might possibly stay if they see people calling out our own lies.