• SCB@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I wasn’t talking down to you at all. You mixed real things and fake things to support a claim you yourself acknowledge is probably nonsense.

    That is indeed a bad look, and people should be warned lest they fall into conspiratorial thinking, because it is neither healthy for the person nor an effective way of looking at the world.

    Gary Webb was an American killed by Americans in government.

    This is exceedingly unlikely.

    • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Yeah. Shot in the head. Twice. He just wasn’t successful with that first shot and had enough bearings to fix it with the second. So said the CIA and we should all believe them just like the totally-not-a-pedophile-priest.

    • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      You mixed real things and fake things to support a claim you yourself acknowledge is probably nonsense.

      My god, are you this pleasant to deal with in real life? I didn’t “acknowledge is probably nonsense.” I said, hey this is what I think, but I don’t really know. Your right answer to that is something along the lines of: Hey there’s a lot of evidence that this is how it happened, here it is. Instead you concocted some kind of scenario where I am “making my case” and you need to get sarcastic with me and assign me strawman views and argue against them all condescendingly.

      I just looked into Gary Webb, and hey, you’re right, he actually probably did kill himself also. So I learned two things today. But because you were such a jackass about it, that’s actually sort of difficult to admit, where if you’d just said “hey I think this is wrong, his ex-wife said he was acting weird and she believes it was suicide, here’s the source” then it could have been a more factual conversation. It happens that I’m patient enough to go and look at sources myself even if you’re being combative with me, but most people won’t do that. They’ll just be toxic back at you and both of you will waste a bunch of time “making your case.” That’s an inherent risk of talking with people on the internet but you don’t need to lean into it when the other person’s just being open minded and reasonable with you.