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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

As an addendum, if you only hear two sides to a story, the truth is usually somewhere in the middle and usually nothing like what people actually had to experience.

Honestly, what I see is much worse. Hamas stated they were going to use human shields and Israel hasn't given a fuck. War doesn't get any more sobering than that, to be honest.

I listen to a metric fuck ton of propaganda and it takes a ton of work to sort through it all. (I am using the term "propaganda" in the context of strong bias, not necessarily misinformation.) One thing I can say, is that the second you get emotional about news from sources like this, you are becoming vulnerable to actual misinformation. Information warfare is real and just as dangerous as bullets, in some ways.

Like I implied before, the actual truth to a story about war is probably much worse than people may think.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

if you only hear two sides to a story, the truth is usually somewhere in the middle

That's a fallacy, sometimes one or the other side is straight up wrong or lying and the other isn't. Probably not this time, but regardless it's important to keep in mind.