• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Why have we accepted the standard of misleading headlines? “Oh well you didn’t read the article, I guess you and 90% of eyeballs get to be fundamentally misinformed” is an unhinged take.

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      11 months ago

      I never said a misleading headline was acceptable. I said the publication is not misleading and that it covers the criticisms dude up above was leveling.

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        11 months ago

        It is misleading, for someone to be misleading they must mislead, and the headline misleads.

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        11 months ago

        You didn’t say it, but when someone else did you became extremely pedantic, “corrected them” to maintain your perceived moral high ground, and straight up invented a strawman to not have to discuss it.

        So you basically did say it.

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          11 months ago

          Go ahead and quote that strawman for me

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            11 months ago

            Your entire comment is about correcting OP. None of it addresses the headline. That’s a strawman.

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              11 months ago

              but the publications are grossly misleading

              I think you’re only referencing the headline, the article itself clearly states what you said

              This one? Where I say the publication is not misleading, only the headline? You don’t understand what a strawman is.

              Your comment history indicates you’re pervasively angry about little things like this. What’s up with that?

              • No_@lemm.ee
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                11 months ago

                When you think looking at someone’s comment history is valid as an argument lmao. Just add ad hominem to the list. Or are you going to climb on a second high horse and say I don’t know what that is either? You’re a clown.