[karlkloss]

There's nothing more dangerous to dictatorships than the truth, so it's only logical.

[account42]

And there is nothing more dangerous to the truth than someone who claims authority over it.

[rs186]

Do fact checkers ever "claim authority" over anything (especially in news organizations)?

Perhaps time to get that wild claim fact checked by yourself.

[metadope]

I will tell you the truth, and you will be safe, believe me, because I know what is true, from my personal experience.

This is the truth over which I can claim authority. My personal experience, that small portion of objective and infinite reality that became mine, once I'd perceived and diced my tiny slice, stored and explored and retrieved and believed. I know what's true, just ask, I'll tell.

[aprilthird2021]

Which the President is doing with these orders right now

[nephihaha]

So called fact checking often is not about truth, but subjectivity.

[croon]

I hear this a lot. I never see examples.

The fact checking I've looked at starts with something like a claim, then dives into context, then lists supporting evidence of either verifying that claim or disproving it, leaning on that supporting evidence.

For fact checking not to be valuable, either the supporting evidence is wrong, the reasoning leading from that to the conclusion is wrong, or something third is wrong.

If that is the case in fact checking, that should absolutely be criticized, and any fact checker with integrity would put up a correction.

For all the vague critique against "fact checking" I've heard, I've never actually seen anyone give examples.

If the critique instead is "they selectively only fact check this and not that", the conclusion should not be that fact checking is bad, but that more is needed.

[greggoB]

So what is your proposed mechanism for attempting to maintain a commonly-observable reality? People have shown throughout history that they have an incentive to bend truths to suit their narratives, often to the detriment of society. How would you address this?

[nutjob2]

Only the words that drip from Dear Leader's mouth are the golden truth.

Every day I check Truth Social to find out what I think.

[mlrtime]

Where exactly is the dictatorship here? Or is this just a vague line meant to imply something without actually saying it? If you have a point to make, just say it plainly.

[aprilthird2021]

The man who constantly says he will find a way to have a 3rd term, who commits war crimes and also suggests the death penalty for his political opponents a few weeks before carrying out war crimes because his opponents said militaries should not commit war crimes even if ordered to.

The leader who announces, illegally, that all his predecessors' orders are null and void.

I mean we could go on and on, no?