• flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Are you talking about people blaming russia for clinton’s loss and election interference? Phrasing this stuff as “the mis- dis- mal-information discourse” makes it sound like there are a bunch of people arguing about the definitions of those things on twitter.

    Your post comes across as needlessly hostile here. Instead of calling me ignorant and dropping a wikipedia link for a thing that existed for 4 months try explaining yourself.

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      9 months ago

      I’m sorry but I don’t know how to summarize this long, winding current in American socio-media-politics of the last six years in a Lemmy comment. It’s just too big a ball of wax, and I’m not up for it.

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        9 months ago

        And so you thought “the mis- dis- mal-information discourse” would be the way people would understand what you’re talking about and what it is Taibbi has exposed?

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          The people who are familiar with it will, and the people who aren’t obviously won’t. Same as in town. I don’t know what you’re trying to do, browbeat me into being your personal thing-explainer?