LegalAdvice. It’s literally run by cops who regularly advise people to incriminate themselves.
Downvotes without any response: This is unpopular with this community, but probably correct.
Downvotes with responses: This was either contentious or wrong.
1 upvote, 0 downvotes, 10+ responses: You posted something really dumb, and Hexbear found out.
What similarities are there, other than the users being exceptionally ornery?
My OXO kettle’s handle fell off during regular use, it’s just held on by a tiny clip.
Their conical coffee grinder is as expensive as a bur grinder.
Why not try it, then remove the feature if it turns out toxic?
I’ve no strong feelings on the matter, but I can understand how some would feel 10 people telling you exactly how you’re wrong can feel worse than 10 downvotes.
I avoid this by simply being correct all the time.
There’s a number of instances that don’t have downvotes. Notably, it forces each person who takes issue with something you’ve said to respond to you if nobody else has said it. Whether that’s better is up to you.
The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis. It’s quite easy to manufacture outrage without lying if you can pick which facts the consumer sees and how they’re contextualized.
Here’s a PDF of Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent.
Personally I find it worthless because it lends credibility to sources that promoted the Iraq war, afghanistan, libya, syria, etc.
Any source that covered a story where thousands to millions will be/are/were murdered for the profit of the military-industrial complex as anything but an unimaginable crime is instantly non-credible. Yes, that includes 99% of American media.
Same with every media outlet wringing their hands about Hamas instead of the locking of millions of people in a concentration camp for decades that precipitated the attack.
Apparently they demodded 2 of the cops, and 2 of them are still there.
BadLegalAdvice ironically has good legal advice.