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by Mountain_Skies 2119 days ago
Maybe those who identify as a truth seeker instead of as a progressive or a conservative find it easier to see what is happening in the world. Where do your first person video accounts come from? Are the edited? Are the missing content at the start or at the end that other first person video accounts include? Would your sources ever admit this or would you have to go to "the other side" to find the video in its entirety? Would you even know that the other side has a video with a more complete view of what happened? There are many ways to lie with video, lies of omission being quite common these days.
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How does “truth seeker” help, say, with Teacher Unions supporting guillotines for Jeff Bezos?[0]

I think our epistemic agreements are gone, yes, but it feels like we’d be polarized today even with epistemic agreement.

It is true that Amazon has caused some bad things in the world, which has some factual basis, and we all might agree. But our ethics of eradication of obstacles to personal happiness has turned toxic.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/ctulocal1/status/1299101069163859...

This is exactly the problem - no one has time to do this, nor do they want to.