Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?

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

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."