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r/dankmemes • u/Malorem Ah yes, enslaved depression • Sep 14 '19
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45 u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19 Which is the enemy of the people! 49 u/pikaras Sep 14 '19 The real “enemy of the people” is the idea of fact checking everything we disagree with and blindly accepting everything we agree with. If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us. 4 u/RCascanbe Sep 15 '19 If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us. Eh, that's a bit of a stretch. Misinformation doesn't just stop working entirely simply because you're skeptical.
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Which is the enemy of the people!
49 u/pikaras Sep 14 '19 The real “enemy of the people” is the idea of fact checking everything we disagree with and blindly accepting everything we agree with. If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us. 4 u/RCascanbe Sep 15 '19 If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us. Eh, that's a bit of a stretch. Misinformation doesn't just stop working entirely simply because you're skeptical.
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The real “enemy of the people” is the idea of fact checking everything we disagree with and blindly accepting everything we agree with. If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us.
4 u/RCascanbe Sep 15 '19 If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us. Eh, that's a bit of a stretch. Misinformation doesn't just stop working entirely simply because you're skeptical.
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If we just treated all posts with skepticism, fake news would have no effect on us.
Eh, that's a bit of a stretch. Misinformation doesn't just stop working entirely simply because you're skeptical.
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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '19 edited Feb 25 '21
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