Comment on Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week agoTrue that. And you reminded me a tidbit of human nature, that interferes in this situation:
If you mince words to make something look stronger, weaker, better, worse than it is, plenty people fall for it. Because they care too much about how something is said (the words) and too little about what is being said (the discourse).
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
What’s really crazy to me is that it’s not impossible to use a rhetorical device but still have it be rooted in reality. Like you can say “AOC doles out biting critique to GOP leadership” or something.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 1 week ago
Possible? Yes. Desirable? No; at least, not for most news sources - the extreme sells better than the simply informative, and often this lack of precision how they manipulate your views towards a certain subject.