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Getting Minted's avatar

Please can we have an article from Gerald Warner on what J D Vance said. I think it would be a useful alternative view to Adam's.

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philby's avatar

That’s a great suggestion.

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Alex Starling's avatar

Hmm. What is the definition of gaslighting? Saying things that aren't true?

You say: "Musk and Vance’s explicit support for Alternativ [sic] für Deutschland appears to dropped them out of second place in opinion polls".

Actual opinion polls (Reuters) has the AfD widening the gap between its 2nd place and falling support for the SPD.

See https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GERMANY-ELECTION/POLLS/akveedlravr/

So are you spreading disinformation or misinformation. I forget. How am I supposed to trust the rest of your reporting? JD Vance's speech was a breath of fresh air, and somehow it doesn't surprise me that you are attempting to poke holes in it.

Aside: the fact that you can't spell the party's name properly tells its own story.

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Alex Starling's avatar

OK, don't want to be picky here, but you've gone to the effort to correct the mistake in the spelling of the full party name of AfD, but the edited sentence has a missing verb. And separately, what is 'thane' (see elsewhere in doc?). This may just be oversight (and an irrelevance), but it is almost as if Mr Boulton has dashed this off and you've just pressed print.

Ultimately you have left in the incorrect claim that AfD have dropped out of 2nd place in the polls. So you've gone to the effort of addressing a triviality, but not corrected this.

I ask again - is Mr Boulton spreading disinformation or misinformation? And why have you amplified it?

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