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bubbluppugus • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Rhetorical claims that refute isn't really evidence either, just an attempt to null out the prevailing narrative; SEO spam

Elon getting snooty and Starlink issues in Ukraine are just press releases too; how the fuck do we know what anyone actually did? Too many red herrings troubleshooting systems to assume Starlink isn't just glitched sometimes

While I am firmly in the "Ukraine is the good guy" camp generally both sides of a nation state conflict will lie to both deflect blame and project competence and strength. Will give Zelensky benefit of the doubt until he dead or war ends and if he doesn't step aside legally. But he will latch onto headlines to get his message heard even if Ukraine had nothing to do with it.


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rightbyte • today at 6:48 AM

I think "pretend believing" lies for the cause is bad for policy on a group scale.

Even if you know they are lies it is probably quite bad to pretend they are not since a group can't pretend to believe something in my opinion.

In aggregate it leads to a chain of decisions that are built upon the lies being true ...