Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers

• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not that they’re being critical, it’s that someone is being shady with some sort of motive. I don’t want the fediverse to get ruined with narrative attack bs, I want to talk to real humans who aren’t trying to manipulate me. If I was cool with that I’d just go back to Reddit.

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I agree with you, but this is a link to a New York Times article, not some shady blog just made to push an agenda.

    If people didn’t find this article interesting, they could just not upvote it.

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    • architect@thelemmy.club ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      NYT isn’t exactly much better than a shady blog. Like most media now.

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Okay but it’s still regarded as a serious publication, even if every publication has some kind of agenda

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  • DrDickHandler@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s cute but Lemmy has the same agenda pushing bots that Reddit has.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The poster’s account is about a day old. For more context. (Voyager shows you an icon and age when accounts are new. Just like Apollo did)

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  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Boost does as well, little chick popping out of an egg

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nice. I think it should be a standard feature. And the need is ever increasing, it seems.

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s the astroturfing that’s objectionable.

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• Bakkoda@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Always be critical of the source. That’s not to say you shouldn’t ever be critical of the content obviously.

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• A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Critical of bots? Yes. Among other things.

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• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Throughout history? Whose?

  The USA’s international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.

  It’s not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.

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  • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve always found the other half of American exceptiolism to be equally stupid;the opinion that America is the worst country ever, ir, exceptionally evil or bad among history.

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    • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, every country that is a world power now is looking down from a mountain of ravaged bodies.

      America is only the latest, and doing so in an era where the victims can livestream back the atrocities committed in the name of the country’s “empire”.

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  • atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A lot of people in my country used to believe until very recently (and a lot others still believe) that the USA is the best country in the world (or second best because of nationalism) and that everyone wishes they could go there

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