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    3 days ago

    How is it hypocritical? Either the sources are biased or not. The poster not providing proof for a counterargument is irrelevant. Or do you mean they should provide proof for the original sources being biased?

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        14 hours ago

        But there is a spectrum. Or are you telling me that every source is as biased as any other?

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          14 hours ago

          Mate, the person literally said “Either the sources are biased or not”

          are you telling me that

          Fun fact: every single time someone writes this, whatever follows is guaranteed to be an outrageous strawman that in no way it’s what the other person was saying.

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            11 hours ago

            Sure buddy. It is still irrelevant. It is not hypocritical to ciritice a source. You don’t have to prove a different point to bring forward criticism. The only question should be “is the criticism valid?” And not “do you have a better point?”

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              10 hours ago

              And the answer to that question is “there’s no such thing as a source with no bias”

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                9 hours ago

                No it is not. That’s only an answer if one thinks that every sources bias is as bad as any other, which was rejected earlier as “outrages strawman”. Under the assumption that sources can be more or less biased, it is worth questioning the bias and the statement “there’s no such thing as a source with no bias” is a moot point.