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> when someone on a forum says "this is wrong and something should be done about it"

If that had been what was said, we wouldn’t even be here.

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Perhaps we can work on what is called "media literacy" where we understand text based on its context and authorship and other such clues.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025768

You have the roles and responsibilities exactly backwards.

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Well, my comments got more upvotes than yours did, and this is a democracy, so I guess I win?
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You can't see others' upvotes (at least, for net positive scores), so there's no way to know.
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