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To: DFG
Google is where we go to answer our questions and you just really want to feel like you can trust those answers and the company behind them. And moments like these break that trust and make you feel like Google’s supposed core value—truth—has been co-opted by politics

This shows the breakdown of critical thinking and the inability to determine that something is slanted by political cant. I use Google and Wikipedia for lots of things. If I want to know the distance from Chicago to Tulsa I google it. But I don't just trust the results. If the answer came back 237 miles or 3,337 miles I would know immediately that it is wrong and if I got a few wrong answers like that I would stop using goole for that purpose.

I can look up a topic in mathematical topology on wikipedia and know I can get a pretty good explanation because it is pretty hard to lie about abstract math and get away with it. I know better than to look up Trump on google or wikipedia because I know the answer will be slanted because someone stuck his finger in and stirred the pie filling until it is an inedible mess - and propogandists are never subtle. They go all in and create a distortio so amazing it fits no reality whatsoever. For these reasons I don not read the Slimes or Compost. The probility of a non-slanted straight up accurate news report is so low that you cannot believe the publication date in the banner.

9 posted on 05/11/2024 1:39:37 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

It’s called false equivalence.

I don’t know how many jews existed on earth in 1938-

but falsely equivocating the decimation of the jews is why it is called false equivalence.


26 posted on 05/11/2024 2:23:42 PM PDT by Freest Republican (There is no tyranny that cannot be justified by imbeciles)
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