• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Frankly, they might be idiots, they might be anti-vaxxers, they might be flat-earthers from anything, they might be fascists.

    But if what they are starting with is removing mechanisms and not putting new ones, and removing those that sucked anyway, - then maybe a tree is known by its fruit.

    Admittedly I’m typing this from Moscow.

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      2 days ago

      Trump specifically said fact checking was wrong and an infringement on free speech.

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        2 days ago

        Yeah, while it’s not, referring to some authority telling you what’s right and what’s wrong is, in fact, not fact checking.

        You can’t trust humans to get such fundamental things right. The more important it is, the more they want to do something stupid.