Re: And so Conquests Second Law is proved true yet again..
"There are now at least 3 sides to every story: yours; mine and the cold hard truth."
Are those the sides? What I see are four sides.
(1) A few experts in possession of the relevant facts.
(2) A larger group willing to weigh up reasonable arguments.
(3) An equally large group trying to weigh up reasonable arguments but actually unable to tell the difference between night and day.
(4) A few disinformation experts whose every message is an attempt to manipulate group 3, confuse group 2, and throw shade at group 1.
Group 4 lives by the smokescreen. When addressing group 3 they are pretending to be in group 1. When addressing group 2 they are pretending to be in group 3. And when addressing group 1 they use violence and intimidation, deflection by questioning of motives, or any other handy attack they can think of.
So it's group 4 that says things like "truth is relative", "everybody has an angle", etc. Arguments from principle, free speech for example, that are so wide of the mark are actually *intentionally* wide of the mark. The idea is to *appear* confused, and more importantly to *appear to care* about principles, in the process of spreading disinformation as widely as possible.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
