• FaceDeer@lemmy.ml
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    And also based on it making total sense for Russia to have done it, and no sense at all for anyone else to have done it.

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      1 year ago

      It also “made sense” to most Americans that Iraq had WMDs. Colin Powell even said so, and he was greatly respected despite his participation in covering up the My Lai Massacre.

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        1 year ago

        A bunch of whataboutism that has no relevance to the subject at hand.

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          1 year ago

          Accusations of whataboutism are a thought-terminating cliché that, ironically, usually just help the accuser avoid engaging with a critical argument.

          The relevance here is that using “it sounds right to me” to decide whether a media narrative is true will lead a person to make big mistakes. And I am criticizing the general lack of media criticism in this thread.