Victoria Antoinette

the difference is that CNN gets paid.

wait…

they may have been referring to the Senate intelligence committee investigation

by what metric was he “most” pro-union?

if you think the mods have a pro-propaganda bot agenda, why would you want to use their community? there are hundreds of Lemmy instances and thousands of other fediverse servers.

you cant know either way. just report

I think 7 days is too long for the problems in this particular thread. a day would have sent a sufficient message

I like the thrust of your comments but I understand why they can’t be allowed to stand as you have written them.

I disagree that we should be calling each other “troll” or any other pejorative.

I went back and reread it. you called them a troll.

I agree with your characterization, but I expect both your comment and this to be removed because we are making a personal accusation. I know that beating around the bush would not put such a fine point on it and call out the actual users who are exhibiting the problematic behavior, but for the good of the community discourse, personal call outs need to be removed.

so while I agree with your characterization, you need to try to communicate it without publicly making personal attacks.

no. an ad hominem is attacking the person instead of the argument. regardless of the truth. poisoning the well is a great one, as it is an ad hominem that usually features true accusations which are irrelevant to the discussion. which could also be called a “red herring” (but most fallacies are doubly red herrings)

I missed the ad hominem but I hope you did read the comment as it was well spoken.

your poise and tact are legendary

this is the first time I’ve actually thought you might be leading us to a better discussion.

if you see a bot, report it. accusing other users in the thread is just toxic.

saying

"they’re aware that in an inflationary economy an “interest-free loan” isn’t merely a opportunity-cost for the lender, it’s a concrete cost.

Is merely repeating a popular myth. The existence of an inflationary economy is a purely rhetorical invention. As is the idea of a concrete cost. Opportunity costs have the same story. They’re just ways of understanding the world but they are not objectively true.

So while that user may believe the myth that you articulated, that myth is not itself true.

economics theory is just story telling. it’s not science.

also, being a leftist means opposing rent seeking.

I expect to have more options on my ballot than that

interest bearing loans are not leftist. please don’t associate your bad ethics with my politics.

nah. fuck interest bearing loans.