They're just fine. Our views don't always align but I've found suspending disbelief is very different from believing.
Maeve
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This is just following the capitalist model: steal stuff without any credit/payment to the originators, feel smug for "your innovative ideas."
Honesty is an option. Go in with good faith, not like you have the truth. For example, "this publication says....how can I believe the publication's refute? I don't know what to believe because propaganda everywhere. How can I know this isn't propaganda? Additional information please," or something. Then take the time you spend in self-congratulatory mockery to follow up. I mean I honestly dk, I've said some really uninformed stuff over there and am somehow not banned.
Sometimes we just can't always know what to believe and that's okay. I usually just wait for more information, and sometimes that takes a really long time, or never comes.
There's a lot of nuance not mentioned. Coercion, duress, extortion. Nevertheless, as I read your reply, I'm reminded of Kiterunner, in which the anti hero's dad explains that sin boils down to stealing: murder steals a life, adultery a spouse, etc.
And if we err, let it be toward kindness.
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Your reply reminded me of something I heard/read once, maybe on Lemmy: those who agree there is corruption but get angry when the corruption is exposed are probably benefitting from the corruption. That's probably not the exact quote, but the gist of it.
They sidelined Wiles from the jump.
Interestingly enough, I was looking for a direct quote by Goebbels, last night. Google kept misattributing the quote until I used another search engine.
When asked about the presence of Nashville police near an ICE office, Dietz said on Wednesday that the city “routinely receives requests for extra patrols for a variety of reasons and responds to the extent resources are available.” He added that he didn’t know who had been detained and that, when he asked the Highway Patrol for more details, he was told to submit a public records request...According to the Migration Policy Institute’s analysis of census data, about 9% of the population in the Nashville metropolitan area, which is about 2 million people, are immigrants. Many of them come from Mexico and Honduras, and the city also has a large Kurdish population, along with refugees from Sudan, Myanmar, and other countries. “It’s a strategy to strike fear into our vibrant, diverse, beautiful neighborhoods,” Sherman Luna said.
I'm glad he was released, this shouldn't have happened. Meanwhile, a random Iraqi who was legally, iirc, here was sent to Rwanda. We know nothing else about that afaik.