Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
But this is the "marketplace of ideas" fallacy. And maybe it wouldn't even be a fallacy if everyone participating in the conversation was just there to express what they sincerely believed and listen and learn.
But we aren't in a marketplace. Or a Quaker meeting hall.
If one side throws millions at "the earth is flat!" the natural weakness of this argument won't keep it from spreading.
We are bringing good faith and listening to a propaganda fight.