comrade pet on Nostr: 100%, the need to invent falsehoods to "prove" an argument only weakens the argument, ...

100%, the need to invent falsehoods to "prove" an argument only weakens the argument, and the falsehoods are usually pretty easy to figure out. Especially with videos and photos being so ubiquitous these days I often wonder what the impulse behind these inventions really is, and if it isn't actually some form of sabotage. It's not lost on me that these false reports are often coming from liberals and their allies, or even from open fascists pretending to be libs