Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities
by ceejayoz on Friday February 16, 2024 @08:21PM
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If I tell you I went to a McDonalds potato warehouse, and that I counted twenty potatoes, but "there's a lot left to count", it would not be a reasonable summary of my statement to say that "the warehouse contains twenty potatoes".
But you would have the warped view of reality necessary to operate as a UN official, so you'd have something going for you :)
Doesn't affect holoduke though, and he could still honestly quote you as having viewed 20 potatoes.
It isn't an accurate reading, but if you spend any time at all on the internet you will detect that honest people are often quite inaccurate. And wrong even while being able to back their opinions up with evidence. But it still isn't fair to imply that they are liar, lying or spreading lies. They are just wrong. Happens to literally all of us.
Even if hypothetically he was a habitual liar in every other comment he ever made on HN, this is not a showcase of lying.