[alganet]

Ground News makes all news be about left versus right. It teaches its users to approach everything as a political battle.

We have enough "left-leaning skeptics" and "right-leaning skeptics", even some "neutral skeptics", but barely any skeptics.

The word "skeptic" is poisoned by I will continue to use it. That's intentional.

[wnc3141]

this NYT opinion piece from a few years back was impactful to my understanding about the destructive nature of such a false dichotomy - as it pertains to Lebanon

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/opinion/trump-beirut-poli...

Essentially that in a state of sectarian politics, everything is political.

> ..."During the course of the dinner, someone mentioned the unusual hailstorms that had pelted Beirut the previous two nights. Everyone offered an explanation for this extreme weather event, before Malcolm, tongue in cheek, asked his guests, “Do you think the Syrians did it?”...

[gsf_emergency_2]

Skepticism is definitely quite Lindy..

That said, having it as the main tool in the toolbox* is...

Something to be skeptical about?

*Bundled up with another in-your-face one like "personal experience", this also screams "political".. and thus hard to take seriously (particularly when those personal experiences are actually relevant)

Freshness- whatever. You probably already know fresh is somewhat popular, but are you really sure you want to be right but not loved? Be respected by your (fr)enemies maybe? Not even that?

(I'm certainly skeptical about "loved for being right" :)

[alganet]

What are you talking about?

Get your arguments together, c'mon. I expect more.

[gsf_emergency_2]

That was no argument. Those were observations ;)

[alganet]

That's exausting. "It's not X, it's Y". Dictionary definition claims.

Can't you grasp meaning? Even LLMs can.