Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?

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Subject	Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?
Date	2024-12-15 00:02 +0100
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Oregonian Haruspex  <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> You seem very offended. This huffy faux emotional reaction is just what I???d
>> expect from somebody from your shit outfit. Ukraine lost. Democrats lost.
>> Nannies lost. You lost.
>
> I don't get this.  I am seeing an increasing number of people, and most of
> them are on the right but a shocking number of them are on the left, who seem
> to view everything in the world as a zero sum game.  "The other guy lost,
> therefore I have won."  "I won, therefore the other guy lost."  The thing
> is, life isn't like that.
>
> In most cases there isn't even any winning or losing to be done at all, and
> viewing everything as a competition is often not the right lens in the first
> place.
>
> I am especially saddened to see this happening on the right, which for years
> upheld Ronald Reagan whose great philosophy was that a rising tide raised
> all boats.  But Reagan's philosophy seems to have been thrown away.
> --scott

This is very sad. We should come together in love and compassion working 
towards a common goal. Instead we get identity politics trying to divide 
and conquer by constantly creating new false dichotomies and 
in-groups/out-groups in order to create destruction. =(

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Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-02 21:37 +0000
  Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-04 06:13 +0000
    Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-04 06:43 +0000
      Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-05 06:06 +0000
        Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-05 06:22 +0000
          Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-05 07:39 +0000
            Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-05 07:52 +0000
              Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-05 07:59 +0000
                Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-05 08:14 +0000
                Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-12-05 09:00 +0042
            Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-12-14 21:57 +0000
              Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-12-15 00:02 +0100
        Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2024-12-08 11:16 +0000
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            Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2024-12-08 21:53 +0000
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                Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Anonymous <anon@anon.net> - 2024-12-10 23:34 -0500
                Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2024-12-14 21:58 +0000
                Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online? Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2024-12-15 21:48 +0000
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