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tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoTread carefully, you sound sus.
Are you serious? I’m just throwing an idea here. How can you be so sure all this data is legit, when the DOD had plenty of time to add or remove anything they wanted?
I am NOT a trump supporter, far from it, but I won’t believe something just because it would fit nicely in my worldview.
What I find sus is the fact that they released the files when nothing stopped them from keeping them secret.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
“I’m not sure parts of this are credible” is a pretty reasonable stance. I share it.
“Here’s what I think instead…” (followed by, frankly, a lot of dumb shit) is much less so.
And some of your “my idea instead” sounds so dumb, that it sounds intended to distract. Sus.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s just a hypothesis. I’m open to counterarguments. Calling someone dumb doesn’t count as one.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Okay, here’s the counterargument. Your “hypothesis” does a less good job of explaining our observations than the much simpler explanation (that things instead are exactly as they seem…) and it also conveniently points blame away from the exact people who are doing everything they fucking can to dodge ANY amount of blame for any of this.
So your “hypothesis” helps the worst fucking people alive, and hinders our ability to understand by introducing utter nonsense and saying “maybe it’s this instead”.
That’s more rebuttal than it deserves, and I already basically said those things above. Do you want me to keep going? I can make it even more clear how foolish and harmful it is to be out here “just asking questions, man”. We’ve seen this shit you’re doing before.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
I think we can assume that among the millions of available documents, some are entirely true, others are completely fabricated, and most fall somewhere in between these two extremes. It would be naive to consider everything as true. We would need to sort through them, but the DOJ has given us no information allowing us to do so. It looks too much like a disinformation tactic not to be suspicious (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood). On the other hand, they took several months before making everything available. One can assume that during that time, they didn’t just sit there with their arms crossed looking at the pile of documents: they likely spent a lot of time modifying documents to limit damage on their end and, in the process, cast doubt on their enemies.
It would indeed be highly implausible for 100% of the documents to be fabricated or AI-generated (and besides, I claimed no such thing), but it is difficult to rule out that some of the available documents are completely fake.
Highlighting this fact is absolutely not ‘helping criminals.’ You say that my hypothesis helps the worst people alive, but can you give me a list of their names? No. These documents serve only to enrage people in a vacuum without pointing a finger on anyone guilty. Very useful for the regime.
Also, it is certainly simpler to believe that ‘all these documents are true’ as you do, but that is not an explanation—and that is not how Occam’s Razor works.
Please note that I am not attacking you or your intentions. I think we’re on the same side.