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  • I mean first let me thank you for speaking on behalf of all of Lemmy. Super kind of you.

    The rest of this is a lovely set of excuses, but this...

    In a polarising context of the Israeli-Palestinian war we already had a lot of fake or complicated stories and as I'm not myself able to verify each piece myself, I prefer big news media I can somehow trust because they do verification for me.

    I really can't resist the bait there.

    No one is asking you to verify every piece of information you read. In this polarizing context of the world we live in, you should at least try to make an effort to know what you're talking about before you comment, though, or you're adding to that misinformation you seem so keen to avoid.

  • I'm sorry, you can't even read what you wrote?

    At the very least, basic level, I don't see any mention of them being in that region and IDK how they report without that.

    Source is linked in the article within the first few sentences from people who are yes, actually in that region. You also indicated you trust "big" sources, who...also aggregate content from sources like this one that are actually in the region.

    You skipped doing a simple internet search on any of that, which would have told you this, so I don't have to.

    They refer to even less known sources, them quoting anonymous individuals

    It requires a very determined level of aggressive ignorance to both blow right past why anonymity might be quite necessary here, and to at the same time completely ignore that not all of the sources are anonymous.

    I understand that this will not make you happy, and it probably won't convince you, either. Neither of those factors makes these types of things less stupid to say.

  • Sure, I can do that for you too. Is clicking the link easy enough?

    Of course the interviewees are mostly anonymous. Does the context of the situation just entirely blow past you? You think it'd be super easy to do this and face no repercussions?

    Also, did you just not read the quotes from the one non-anonymous source, or was that too far down in the article and your scrolling finger got tired? I'd rather assume you're lazy than that you're pushing an agenda, but hey it seems like we can all just make assumptions and do no digging to see if they're true, so fuck it, you're a war criminal that kicks puppies.

    How dare you bring your puppy-kicking into this conversation. I demand a peer-reviewed paper proving you're not a puppy-kicker and the authors must be owned by one of three major corporations or I won't believe it. What's that? You don't even have a referenced Wikipedia page with sources that demonstrate you don't kick puppies? Well fuck man, even that paper can't help you now.

  • She has nothing, because she is irrelevant. If she actually cared about those things, she'd run for a position commensurate with her experience, which again, is nothing.

    Your take is pointlessly nihilistic and divorced entirely from reality, so I guess you're consistent there at least.

  • Oh so you're shifting away from the entirety of this article and anything dipshit the woo-woo self-help author says to...what, exactly? Restating your delusion that if you just complain loudly enough and stupidly enough on a website barely anyone reads, that somehow that'll make entrenched power step aside for...well, I'm sure you'll all think of a name later?

    Did you suddenly realize that sinking effort into defending this irrelevant dipshit might make others realize how dumb and likely dishonest your opinion is? Yeah bit late there.

    Grow the fuck up. Replacing Biden happens if Biden is dead. Either he wins now or it's over. Maybe consider focusing on the fight that actually exists instead of the one that was never a real possibility except in delusional peoples' heads.

    Or keep trying to divide the democratic base like you're doing here. I assume that's your real goal, and also why you can't manage to make any arguments that hold water.

  • In the sense of determining election results, her voice does not statistically matter. No one with half a brain takes her seriously enough to listen to anything she says.

    She's wrong in thinking (and I use the term generously) that Jeffries, Schumer, or "whomever" can have an intervention with the POTUS like he's an addict on a bender. She'd probably know how ridiculous that sounds if she'd ever, you know, done anything useful politically.

  • If you'd read the article, you'd see where they source the information from. This org often republishes and aggregates content from other sources that further its progressive aims.

    All of this is readily available information at the end of a five second search. Just because you don't read media that isn't part of a for-profit corporation doesn't mean they're less reputable.

  • Dude, self help book lady from the 90s who has never held any office, never done anything remotely useful politically, and has literally dropped out of this race twice already has nothing useful to contribute.

    Oh wait. That's why she speaks to you, isn't it. That sense of "making your voice heard" even though neither of you has anything useful to say.

  • So because you're unfamiliar with this organization (that has existed for almost 30 years), you called them "questionable" instead and merely implied that the report was fraudulent and that we should all do better than to post articles from sources you haven't heard of and can't be arsed to look into.

    Then, when someone gave you evidence, you dismissed it because it didn't agree with how you see the world. Don't get me wrong, I think the bias fact check site is bullshit about half the time, but you still made an accusation, if obliquely, and provided no evidence.

    What's that thing we can do when people make assertions without evidence again? Oh right, dismiss those assertions without evidence.

  • As multiple people have already explained to you, in this instance, the Democratic candidate is the only realistic way forward. You are, stupidly, expanding that to all choices forever because, again, you can’t seem to pick up on context.

    You know when a walk sign on a traffic light says “walk,” and then it changes to “don’t walk”? You don’t wander into traffic because it said walk ten seconds ago, right? The poster is trying to tell you not to walk into traffic. The next election cycle, they might say something else, because the situation may have changed. Stop reading things that aren’t there.

  • No one is ignoring anything. Well, except you, since you seem to need every bit of context spelled out for you before you can derive intended meaning from four sentences. Like fuck man, I don't know how you get through the day with that level of incompetence.