Context: I am used to the right wing propaganda/ misinformation that is on Twitter.

What is surprising to me is the amount of Mastodon left wing influencers who mislead or say very illogical stuff that please their followers.

I had even seen people with high degrees who engage in this misinformation or encourage it, I replied to some of them to tell them the fallacies in their posts and to their credit some of them issued a clarification or deleted their posts, but most of them don’t even reply or address the issues in their posts.

All of that lead me to the following probable conclusions:

  • They are just saying what will get them more followers/ publicity.
  • They are undetected targeted bots.
  • They truly believe in what they are saying and don’t want to discuss it, which is weird considering the context.

Does anyone have any insight into this?

    • 101OPEnglish
      -9•4 days ago

      This is a toot from the current popular toots on Mastodon.

      • CralderEnglish
        17•4 days ago

        What is misleading about this? This is clearly just a personal opinion. Just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean it is misleading.

      • Rhynoplaz
        17•4 days ago

        So, what’s wrong about it? It sounds like a personal position to me. Even if the percentages aren’t exactly correct, I don’t think that completely corrupts their concept.

        Is it a 100% tax rate as good as they think it would be? Maybe, maybe not, but predicting one way or the other isn’t misinformation.

      • @aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
        19•4 days ago

        Implicit in “profit so much that money becomes trivial” is that they think this tax rate should apply to very high profit businesses/individuals.

        In fact the US’ top tax rate was 90% for almost a decade and over 70% for 40 years - during a time many would consider “golden years”.

        They could have worded their statement better though.

      • @Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
        14•4 days ago

        That’s a radical position. I support social democratic economy, but it’s too radical for me. However, I don’t see what’s misleading about it…

      • femtech
        2•4 days ago

        There is misinformation and that’s a position I technically agree on, just depends on what is included and at what limit.