• flan [they/them]
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        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.

        • davel [he/him]
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          91 year 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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            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?

            • davel [he/him]
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              51 year ago

              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?

              • flan [they/them]
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                51 year ago

                I mean you’re on a public message board and you clearly have A Thing you care about, so maybe in the interest of promoting that Thing you should explain it?