• prole
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    1 month ago

    Because a lie will circle the earth a dozen times before the truth gets a foot (or whatever tf the saying is).

    It is so much easier, and takes so much less time and energy to make up disinformation, than to fight it. And people on the left tend to actually care about the truth, and we also want others to understand the truth (and to gain the means for them to independently arrive at the truth), and spouting disinformation goes directly against that.

    It’s amazing what people are willing to do to win when you not only make it acceptable, but encourage complete disregard for ethics.