Some truth is absolute, but everyone must get there in there own way.
I was raised in a home that quite literally dictated what my beliefs had to be, and how I must behave. That travelled beyond that with my first husband who likewise dictated my beliefs and actions.
What I never wanted, was to do that to my own kids. So I told them what my beliefs were, and why I believed them, and let them figure out their own answers from there.
I was divorced with no kids at home any longer, before I ever had a chance to look introspectively and decide for myself what I believed, why I believed it or even who I was and wanted to be as a person because til that time everything was dictated to me, whether by others or by circumstance.
That was mainly in matters of faith of course... but I still see most everything from whether we should support a war in another country, to having national borders and legal immigration, to whether or not Q is a nut job much the same way because it's largely opinion based... you may operate on a similar fact base for some of it, like whether to go to war with x country, but still arrive at different conclusions with other people.
People don't need dictated to, even if what your saying is true people have a right to figure it out on their own. People who are adults aren't children to be led, nor imbeciles to be dictated to.
If Q is a nut job that truth will bear itself out (without the necessity of a fact checker telling you Q has been - or not been - certified as clinically insane)
The last thing any free society needs is someone dictating to you what you are or are not allowed to see, or dictating to you their opinion of the facts. That's not freedom at all... even if they let you vote...
Fusion in late 2014 determined 80% of all women coming into this country illegally via our southern border to have been raped along the way... whether by fellows that immigrated with them, or by coyotes, or by other nefarious individuals they met along the way.. but the facts were, according to them, that 80% of the women crossing the border were raped by the time they got into this country, or perhaps some shortly thereafter if by coyotes.
80% Of Central American Women, Girls Are Raped Crossing Into The U.S.
Now, you don't have to agree with this report, but it was plastered all over because this was a shocking figure, especially when it was 20% above an amnesty international figure of 60% not terribly long (a year or two) before fusions..
Here's the issue. Those are two disparate sets of facts, from two different sources, from two different data sets... so you would determine which to believe back then at the time of reporting, stick with amnesty report because they seem more reputable and a little less left than fusion, or go with trusting fusions report...
either way you go either is a pretty dim picture so it hardly matters which set of facts you have more faith in.. more than half is bad enough to warrant attention and attempt to change the situation for these unfortunate women.
However, what no one did was question either the accuracy of either sets of data, whether fusion or amnesty (we all mainly accepted both could have degrees of error, but none large enough to warrant not seeing this as a potential serious problem for women coming into this country illegally), until Trump quoted the fusion reports in an interview (or media statement I forget which)..
At the time I pulled up both the fusion report and the amnesty international report from their original sources, when people started calling him a racist. Why? As a women I remembered how big of a deal those statistics were less than a year previously. They were important to me, so I actually remembered discussions about them both they each came out.
So then the media started saying he's spouting conspiracy theories (which okay, fusion
was pretty far left, I myself opted to stick with amnesty's data for that reason when fusion came out with theirs) but even 60% was enough to warrant looking far more closely at how our actions as a nation actually encouraged illegal immigration, and ended up putting more women in harm's way than should... keeping people safe should be an important thing.
Now of course the 60% amnesty report is "page not found" on their website, and mainstream media now pretends it was all some big lie by Trump...
What they couldn't change, was people like me actually remembering this stuff... like both the fusion and the amnesty reports, and being able to source from amnesty's website before they decided it was more important to convince people Trump was crazy than to keep relevant data available for the public to see...
So... when it comes to facts... even they have varying levels of truth in them...
If I say "in America you had a 99.9% chance of living through the coronavirus pandemic in 2020", and your say "In America the coronavirus has a 3% mortality rate in 2020" guess what?
We are both relaying very real and established facts concerning this pandemic... and neither are lying, neither statement is untrue.
It's all a matter of what spin we put on it, and how we frame the exact same statistics. That's why getting to the truth yourself is extremely important, and "truth" can vary, depending on who your talking to.
When it's you coming to the truth, then you can examine various statistics etc in light of various considerations, and consider them accordingly, and come up with your own opinions.
It's much better than having truth dictated to you... and is a bedrock of a free society.