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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

If you're always giving people who don't play fair, the benefits of the doubt, you're going to end up with fascism.

Never help vipers survive, they'll only end up stinging you.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

If I don't give people the benefit of a doubt, then I am the one playing unfairly.

Alex Jones may be a liar, but I'm not.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes you are, you're pretending the title doesn't contain the words "assassinate Biden", when it clearly does. Now you're pretending this was ever about truth and lies, when it never was.

It's about perception, conveying the quite accurate perception that Alex Jones aids a politically unhinged and destabilizing political atmosphere.

He should be painted as such, instead you're out here pretending like he's a good honest man, that is being lied about.

You're lending your honesty and labour, to a side of politics unworthy of the honour.

You have fallen into the trap of telling the Nazis there are Jews in the basement, thinking it will prove that you're a good person, when it in fact just makes you culpable for the success of fascists.

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