• Hobthrob@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Sorry, very late - I completely missed your message until now. Apologies for that.

    I’ll try to find the time to answer you in-between work to give some quick evidence to each claim.

    I don’t have it at hand, and most of my research is weeks, if not months, old at this point. I didn’t expect to spend time debating it with people online, so didn’t put together a whole dossier on it.

    That is also largely why I left the door open for others to reach their own conclusions via their own research.

    But I’ll try to compile something for you.

    Edit:

    Also, the reason I say “uses the language of” and “he says” is because I’m avoiding making a judgement call on it. It’s unfortunate if it comes across as biased. I don’t believe I hold any bias in those, but I do understand that perhaps those phrases have occasionally been co-opted by partisan outlets, but it’s neutral phrasing and just because some actors use it in bad faith doesn’t mean it is bad faith by default.