Everyday my decision to leave Lemmy.world seems to be a better and better one.
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My apologies, I thought I had edited that original post to add another link. This one.
The tl;dr of that would be that the political terms one government uses is not universal. A Canadian was talking about Canadian politics on a post about Canadian politicians made to /c/World@Lemmy.world, their World News community. The mod in question, Jordan, removed a comment that had said a particular person was not a Member of Government. This is a term that is equivalent to Member of Administration. Jordan, unaware of this, removed the dude claiming that "It is misinformation to call this person not a Member of Government". It was not misinformation, just a misunderstanding. What became active misinformation was Jordan doubling down for months, even doing so in the major call out post that I made a couple hours after an admin specifically said that he was wrong.
Misinformation could apply to either the constant insistence that the user was engaging in misinformation as Jordan is definitely trying to reframe that reality but also the insistence that the term does not exist. It's an American pushing an American narrative of a Canadian situation and that shit sent me over the fucking edge.
I, a Canadian, was part of a similar discussion. I, like JL, thought that stance was crazy. Unlike him, I did some research, saw that was a common definition in Canada, so clarified what I meant in my original comment and then stopped using that term for Canadian elected officials. I'm not sure why he chose his route.
Because he is incapable of admitting fault. He is a narcissistic American with his head shoved so far up his ass he could use his belly button as a porthole.