“Libs only vote and think that’s enough! You’re required to murder people to join the club!”

  • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    1 day ago

    I’m not the one making the claim. The news article is. If anything, they need to be the ones providing evidence.

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      1 day ago

      I see. You believed it was fake because you wanted to believe it.

      Hey! Just like I said!

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        1 day ago

        Just because some random news article claims something doesn’t make it true. It’s not evidence on its own.

        And you know what, yeah I believed it was fake because it fit my lived experiences that most news articles are lying. I wanted it to be fake because it didn’t fit my world view, that journalists are liars.

        As an aside, I got a chance to look around over my lunch break, and I can’t find any other pictures of that poster. You’d think if it was real, there’d be plenty of pictures. And I can’t find anywhere where the AfD said what the article claimed they said.

        So I’m going to go with Hitchens’s razor. “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

              • goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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                23 hours ago

                How about we just settle this.

                @[email protected], is the AfD a party of extremists with ties to neo-nazis in their supporters and leadership? And are you also a supporter of this party? If so, why?

                • Kaboom@reddthat.com
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                  23 hours ago

                  is the AfD a party of extremists with ties to neo-nazis in their supporters and leadership

                  I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it enough, I haven’t found evidence either way. They are suspicious, but I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous name calling in my day.

                  are you also a supporter of this party

                  No. Flat no. I think we should deport illegal immigrants, so I’m agreeing on that front, but I don’t know enough about them to be a supporter.

                  My real problem, which I have repeated a lot lately, is that you can’t trust the news, and the German government has marked them as extremist. That I have found direct evidence for. (okay, I google translated it, but that’s as direct as I can get, and that’s the same standard I’ll hold any other evidence I find).

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                    23 hours ago

                    I don’t know, I haven’t looked into it enough, I haven’t found evidence either way. They are suspicious, but I’ve seen a lot of ridiculous name calling in my day.

                    Okay, here. 1 2 3 4

                    but I don’t know enough about them to be a supporter.

                    Yet you defend them? Why defend a party that you don’t know anything about?

                    Media is difficult in the misinformation era we’re in. But there are tools you can use to help. I personally use Mediabiascheck, which uses many different resources to determine how trustworthy a certain media is.