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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Source or GTFO. Spreading rumours about people is a shitty thing to do.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'll be nice, but nobody owes it to you to source everything they say or look things up for you. Googling isn't hard.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Nobody owes it to you to believe what you say either, but they offered you the chance to back up your words.

Granted they weren’t nice about it, but shit for shit leaves everyone covered in shit.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On a more serious note: If anyone can just claim anything in a conversation, that would be detrimental to any discussion. Either everybody makes up their own “facts” because no-one bothers proving everyone else’s version of a story (which is just everybody lying in everybody’s face); or everybody is constantly fact-checking everyone else, which makes the conversation take much longer than necessary.

You already have the source, or at least an idea in which context you got the information and how to find it again. It’s just common courtesy to share it the others rather than making them do the work, too.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is a time and topic for demanding rigorous discussion, and shit posting about Dolph Lundgren ain't it. Insinuating dishonesty and demanding a source about something so unserious is like inserting yourself into a casual conversation to start an argument.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There was a clickbait NY Post article that I'd never link to, this article (archive) is more even handed.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

This is confirmed by a search that's faster than your comment so where's your anger coming from?