• Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
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    3 years ago

    Intentionally misrepresenting facts is not how one should try and make a point though. It just makes people cynical and distrustful.

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        3 years ago

        It is astonishing to me that, in explaining why “baselessly ascribing malicious intent” is bad you have, in fact, baselessly ascribed the malicious intent of sowing distrust and killing of discussion to the person you are responding to. Incredibly quick hypocrisy turn around there.

        Arguably it doesn’t matter if its maliciousness or incompetence, the result is the same.

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            3 years ago

            You’ve just ascribed malicious intent to me, further demonstrating your own hypocrisy.

            If you believe you second paragraph, why do you keep contradicting yourself?

            The second paragraph also sounds like manipulative bullshit coming from someone who’s misrepresenting facts. The spirit of collaboration and communal discourse that you’re paying lip service to is smothered by lies and mistruths. You need to rethink how you do things, you’re a walking anachronism.