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timrtoday at 9:39 AM1 replyview on HN

> I like that you say that the opinion you quoted is uncharitable and then agree with it.

To people who disagree with you, your opinion is always trivially dismissed as "propaganda". This is neither insightful nor charitable, and applies universally to actors on any side of a political debate.


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surgical_firetoday at 9:58 AM

The word propaganda has a meaning. In this case I think it was used correctly.

Propaganda as opposed to information (what one would naively expect from a newspaper).

While a regular newspaper article would inform, propaganda would deceive with the intention of convincing people of some idea.

And frankly, Bezos does very little to deserve charity when people evaluate his actions.

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