Re: Why Do People Spread Misinformation Online?

On Sat, 14 Dec 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Oregonian Haruspex  <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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. =(