Fair amount of biblical references in it; I’d guess the poster is drawing a parallel between that and the rather unhinged nature of Christian fundamentalism. I haven’t seen anything yet to indicate motives, so we’ll all see I guess.

Do you care about internet points on Lemmy of all places?

Not particularly. I agree with you on that; I assume not many people care about them, but when someone gives me a button to push for things that don’t add to conversations, like, say, repeated instances of aggressive ignorance and lies about what an article consists of, it’s really not a lot of effort to push it, so I’m going to keep doing that 'til either you stop with the bullshit or I get bored.

A contradiction. I repeat: I either verify stuff myself or outsource that verification to a source I can trust. I’m surprised you don’t do that too, or put it in the bad light for whatever reason. Maybe that’s why you have a long conversation defending questionable sources. I decided not to trust them. It’s more of an effort than blindly consuming whatever someone posts.

A lie. There is no evidence that the source is questionable. There is abundant evidence that they are a real journalistic source (remember when I linked you some? Those were good times).

You decided not to trust the source based on nothing. This is a stupid thing to do. You decided to comment on it anyway, with no knowledge or interest in discovering the truth. That is a harmful thing to do.

I’m going to keep having this conversation because you’ve decided to…what are we at now, quintuple-down on this? We’re far past the realm of where most Lemmy apps will even display comment chains this long. It’s just you, me, and anyone bored enough to dig into a slap fight about how difficult it is for you to read.

I mean first let me thank you for speaking on behalf of all of Lemmy. Super kind of you.

The rest of this is a lovely set of excuses, but this…

In a polarising context of the Israeli-Palestinian war we already had a lot of fake or complicated stories and as I’m not myself able to verify each piece myself, I prefer big news media I can somehow trust because they do verification for me.

I really can’t resist the bait there.

No one is asking you to verify every piece of information you read. In this polarizing context of the world we live in, you should at least try to make an effort to know what you’re talking about before you comment, though, or you’re adding to that misinformation you seem so keen to avoid.

I’m sorry, you can’t even read what you wrote?

At the very least, basic level, I don’t see any mention of them being in that region and IDK how they report without that.

Source is linked in the article within the first few sentences from people who are yes, actually in that region. You also indicated you trust “big” sources, who…also aggregate content from sources like this one that are actually in the region.

You skipped doing a simple internet search on any of that, which would have told you this, so I don’t have to.

They refer to even less known sources, them quoting anonymous individuals

It requires a very determined level of aggressive ignorance to both blow right past why anonymity might be quite necessary here, and to at the same time completely ignore that not all of the sources are anonymous.

I understand that this will not make you happy, and it probably won’t convince you, either. Neither of those factors makes these types of things less stupid to say.

You said stupid shit and then doubled-down on it when the answers were easily available. I don’t know why being called out on it is so surprising to you ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Sure, I can do that for you too. Is clicking the link easy enough?

Of course the interviewees are mostly anonymous. Does the context of the situation just entirely blow past you? You think it’d be super easy to do this and face no repercussions?

Also, did you just not read the quotes from the one non-anonymous source, or was that too far down in the article and your scrolling finger got tired? I’d rather assume you’re lazy than that you’re pushing an agenda, but hey it seems like we can all just make assumptions and do no digging to see if they’re true, so fuck it, you’re a war criminal that kicks puppies.

How dare you bring your puppy-kicking into this conversation. I demand a peer-reviewed paper proving you’re not a puppy-kicker and the authors must be owned by one of three major corporations or I won’t believe it. What’s that? You don’t even have a referenced Wikipedia page with sources that demonstrate you don’t kick puppies? Well fuck man, even that paper can’t help you now.

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Waste as much of your time as you like. Or just wait 'til dipshit announces that she’s dropping out for the third time and post that. Maybe she’ll stick with it.

She has nothing, because she is irrelevant. If she actually cared about those things, she’d run for a position commensurate with her experience, which again, is nothing.

Your take is pointlessly nihilistic and divorced entirely from reality, so I guess you’re consistent there at least.

Oh so you’re shifting away from the entirety of this article and anything dipshit the woo-woo self-help author says to…what, exactly? Restating your delusion that if you just complain loudly enough and stupidly enough on a website barely anyone reads, that somehow that’ll make entrenched power step aside for…well, I’m sure you’ll all think of a name later?

Did you suddenly realize that sinking effort into defending this irrelevant dipshit might make others realize how dumb and likely dishonest your opinion is? Yeah bit late there.

Grow the fuck up. Replacing Biden happens if Biden is dead. Either he wins now or it’s over. Maybe consider focusing on the fight that actually exists instead of the one that was never a real possibility except in delusional peoples’ heads.

Or keep trying to divide the democratic base like you’re doing here. I assume that’s your real goal, and also why you can’t manage to make any arguments that hold water.

In the sense of determining election results, her voice does not statistically matter. No one with half a brain takes her seriously enough to listen to anything she says.

She’s wrong in thinking (and I use the term generously) that Jeffries, Schumer, or “whomever” can have an intervention with the POTUS like he’s an addict on a bender. She’d probably know how ridiculous that sounds if she’d ever, you know, done anything useful politically.

If you’d read the article, you’d see where they source the information from. This org often republishes and aggregates content from other sources that further its progressive aims.

All of this is readily available information at the end of a five second search. Just because you don’t read media that isn’t part of a for-profit corporation doesn’t mean they’re less reputable.

Dude, self help book lady from the 90s who has never held any office, never done anything remotely useful politically, and has literally dropped out of this race twice already has nothing useful to contribute.

Oh wait. That’s why she speaks to you, isn’t it. That sense of “making your voice heard” even though neither of you has anything useful to say.

I didn’t, and won’t, because she’s just as irrelevant now as she was in the last election.

Really starting to miss when you were banned from more things. Like this is a super long reach into irrelevance even for you.

The NMS comparison is confusing. NMS didn’t have an early access release. It just released and received substantial updates.

So because you’re unfamiliar with this organization (that has existed for almost 30 years), you called them “questionable” instead and merely implied that the report was fraudulent and that we should all do better than to post articles from sources you haven’t heard of and can’t be arsed to look into.

Then, when someone gave you evidence, you dismissed it because it didn’t agree with how you see the world. Don’t get me wrong, I think the bias fact check site is bullshit about half the time, but you still made an accusation, if obliquely, and provided no evidence.

What’s that thing we can do when people make assertions without evidence again? Oh right, dismiss those assertions without evidence.

The long-haired ones definitely look substantially more like you’d expect a dog to look.

So the fact that the poster talked about the current candidate and the current election just flew right past you, just like the rest of the point, then? I’m not surprised.

As multiple people have already explained to you, in this instance, the Democratic candidate is the only realistic way forward. You are, stupidly, expanding that to all choices forever because, again, you can’t seem to pick up on context.

You know when a walk sign on a traffic light says “walk,” and then it changes to “don’t walk”? You don’t wander into traffic because it said walk ten seconds ago, right? The poster is trying to tell you not to walk into traffic. The next election cycle, they might say something else, because the situation may have changed. Stop reading things that aren’t there.