• @[email protected]
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    08 days ago

    it’s on the OPINION section. it’s okay to not agree with it, they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject

    if you read it and think “that’s stupid bullshit!”

    you might come to the conclusion the editor wants.

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      08 days ago

      they want to have opinions expressed, usually not the norm, so you can have a better formed option about the subject

      You can’t a better formed opinion on a subject by reading trash.

      GIGO

    • @[email protected]M
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      08 days ago

      I don’t necessarily disagree that that may be the intention, but “We’re going to platform apologia for a fascist’s policies so you can see how stupid it is” is, I feel, at the very least a severe strategic miscalculation.

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      08 days ago

      Yes but someone whose opinion is that ants are tiny robots doesn’t belong in the opinion section. I think this is on about that level.

      • @[email protected]M
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        08 days ago

        Yes but someone whose opinion is that ants are tiny robots doesn’t belong in the opinion section.

        What’s wrong with that tho

        • @[email protected]OP
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          08 days ago

          Maybe there would be a big improvement to be had to the quality of the paper and the engagement, if it came with the right framing.

          In a box on page 1: “One story in this paper is fake! Can you spot it? Write to (blah) with your guess and your reasons” and then see what people come up with and publish some of the letters with responses. Get people in a more healthy frame of mind for how to interact with the material.

          (Bonus points if there is no fake story in most issues)

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              lol okay fair point let me rephrase

              someone whose opinion is that ants are tiny robots sent by the Koreans to spy on us and we all need to step on them all the time

              That is more bizarre than what’s in this article but they are based in roughly the same level of factual rigor and connection to reality.