I think a lot of this comes down to the semantics of “intention”.

I intended to write line 152 exactly as written. I intended to write code that compiles. But that pesky compiler imposes reality on me when it says “bug on line 152”. Did I intend to write the bug?

Similarly, a politician may make a public promise on the campaign trail. They may truly intend to fulfill that promise, but political reality stops them when they are elected. There are hundreds of possible reasons for failure: poor planning and naivety, lack of political capital, or even accepting a lobbyist’s bribe. Which of these cases should be considered lies?

Politicians work product is not information, it is legislation.

“Politician that never lies” is like “Developer that never writes bugs”. I want to live in that world too, but it is a fantasy world.

It is absolutely disgusting how you talk about an ongoing genocide.

Or a Mossad agent…

Memes like this always irk me because, yes Russia is underhandedly influencing online discourse, but they are just one of many.

The Russian budget for online influence is dwarfed by the efforts of first world defense and intelligence agencies.

Misinformation Bot says that WaPo is left-center lmao. Absolutely ridiculous.

Yea it is ironic that the decendants of Holocaust survivors would go on to commit a genocide of their own

He died for his own cause, I am only trying to amplify and honor his message.

I will take advantage of his death to spread understanding, empathy, and a hopeful end to the genocide.

He tried to die for a purpose, why are you so intent on stripping his death of that purpose? You are the one who dishonors the dead.

The war against nazism wasnt just fought on the battlefield, it was also fought on the cultural front.

edit: and even more importantly, the economic front as well.

I think Matt Nelson is a hero. His death was not one of fear and loneliness. It was the ultimate act of empathy, compassion, and humanity.

I’m going to celebrate his heroic deed, and I encourage everyone to do the same.

Israel is an ultranationalist power which has lost its democracy and is now waging an offensive war for the purposes of territorial gain and ethnic cleansing.

In a word, they are Nazis.

Ask yourself: how did we eradicate the Nazi scourge? Then do that.

It’s not about the production cost, its about the opportunity cost.

A quick google search tells me a national ad costs $200k-$1m for a 30s slot. That means 5 seconds of screen time costs $30k-$150k.

I dont have an alternate source. I think the bot should be banned.

Boston Globe is left-center? Yikes, more misinformation from the conservative bot.

I’m not sure if they are a russian shill, but unfortunately they are telling the truth. Democrats have often employed the pied piper strategy, and it has come back to bite them a few times.

It was probably most famously used when Hillary Clinton boosted Trump, because he seemed to be the weakest Republican primary candidate at the time. How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy

Democrats are still boosting and supporting extremist Republicans now. The risky strategy Democrats are using to win elections

Because the source of its output is rightwing garbage, and the bot spams every post here.

The bot has no opinion, but its owners have an agenda.

Your data does not logically lead to your conclusion, because the polls cited naturally bifurcated the responses into two (or three) camps.

It’s like if I did a poll asking: “what is your favorite color, purple or yellow?” and then said this proves that 50% of respondents’ favorite color is purple. We are discounting the opinions of orange and green lovers.

So it sounds like theres 3 steps here:

1. Campaign receives large donation from wealthy donor
2. Campaign spins up an advertising campaign, encouraging potential donors by saying they will get matched from funds in step 1
3. Campaign receives donation from small donor.

Yeah that kinda sounds like bs to me. There are 2 donations, and an advertising campaign. No extra money is generated by the “match”.

A different dataset would be an improvement, but you will have an uphill battle getting it changed.

This bot is created and operated by the admins here at lemmy.world and they appear to have a financial stake in MBFC.

Wow, the stupid bot thinks NBC news is left center too? Ridiculous.