Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@RickiTarr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RickiTarr</span></a></span> The problem with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> is that that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Counterspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Counterspeech</span></a> or <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Corrections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corrections</span></a> are pointless.</p><ul><li>People choose to believe in these not in spite but because they are flagged as <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/disinfo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disinfo</span></a> and because they are <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/lies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lies</span></a>. </li></ul><p>Arguing against these things makes them <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/debateable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>debateable</span></a>"</em> and that is the big mistake...</p><ul><li>You can't undo the tactic of <em>"<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FloodTheZoneWithShit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FloodTheZoneWithShit</span></a>"</em> by just trying to siphon away the poop: You need to stop allowing poop trucks to empty their tanks and that only works by consequently <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/banning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>banning</span></a>, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/boycotting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>boycotting</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/excluding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>excluding</span></a> those that do so.</li></ul><p>The <em>fallacy</em> that <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/christofacists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christofacists</span></a> and other <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/reactionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reactionary</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/bigots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigots</span></a> could be <em>"converted"</em> or <em>"convinced"</em> of being wrong assumes they don't know better and that they are <em>indeed interested in the truth</em> - neither of which is the case.</p><ul><li></li></ul><p>Same with <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TERFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TERFs</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Neonazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neonazis</span></a>: </p><ul><li>One doesn't <em>debate</em> the rights of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/marginalized" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>marginalized</span></a> people, but forces those bigots to flee into hiding by all means necessary!!!</li></ul><p><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MakeFacistsAfraidAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakeFacistsAfraidAgain</span></a> includes making <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a>|ts and the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/OrangeTyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OrangeTyrant</span></a> flee to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> or face Jailtime for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/HighTreason" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighTreason</span></a> and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Insurrection</span></a>!</p>