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Fox News hosts launch extended unhinged attack on Superman’s message of kindness towards immigrants
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Pointing out, debunking, and spreading awareness about state- and company-sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.
Propaganda and disinformation are a big problem on the internet, and the Fediverse is no exception.
What's the difference between misinformation and disinformation? The inadvertent spread of false information is misinformation. Disinformation is the intentional spread of falsehoods.
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The standard, for me, is to throw out the ignorant superstitious bullshit (like taking enemy civilians as slaves and killing homosexuals) and keep the timeless moral principles (like loving your neighbor as yourself).
Because I'm not a Christian. I respect the Bible as part of my cultural heritage, not as divine revelation. And I'm happy to throw out the bullshit and focus on the good stuff.
And I'm going to ask Christians "if you really believe in the Bible why do you ignore the parts about loving your neighbor" because hopefully it'll get them to think about what they believe and become better people as a result.
And I'm not going to ask them "if you really believe in the Bible why don't you take your neighbors as slaves" for the fucking obvious reason that convincing them to take their neighbors as slaves won't make them better people.
Makes sense?
Well no, because the line between "superstitious bullshit" and "timeless moral principles" seems to be one you chose, where the standard is your own values. So it doesn't make sense to me to criticize people for picking and choosing, when the real issue is that the line they chose between what parts are good or bad reflects values that are bad for reasons other than religion.
I agree with this a lot. The people who are the issue have no code of ethics that aligns with the Bible to yield a communal good outcome. They use it for a personal good outcome. Therefore, we would be arguing on completely different terms where we are each picking and choosing parts that we like to defend our opinion while ignoring the other side's same logic. This makes the source material valueless because it has no consistency throughout its teachings where the two parties differ the most.