We are in a truth emergency

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  1. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    Your reply doesn't rise above "I know you are, but what am I" and we know about what grade level that kind of reply resides on.

    Forget it.
     
  2. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    You are not making sense.
     
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    Fact remains: You cannot demonstrate your claim to be true.
     
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    (original)late Banned

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    Look up the meaning of satire..

    If you at the countries that reduced the corona virus dramatically, they all had strong national governments. If you look at the countries that do a good job educating their kids, the government is involved.

    That's cause that's the way the world works.

    Excuses be damned.
     
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    And it never will...
     
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    Fangbeer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the content prior to claiming the content doesn't exist. You wanted examples of media lies. I gave you three very famous examples. Your response that you haven't heard of them is telling.
     
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    The walls of his bias bubble are very thick.
     
  8. Patricio Da Silva

    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    Well, the charge is "I believe in lies", so allow me to elucidate on that particular point.


    In short, it depends on the pipeline, I"m neither for or against, in principle, but some pipelines, given terrain and where they are placed, may, or may not be, a good idea.

    Not all democrats are
     
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    Nonsense. Satire has nothing to do with properly using words and screwing up the definition. Italy was a disaster so was Britain Scandinavia a mixed bag Germany did okay. We don't in fact no crap about China whose government has been lying to everyone from the beginning, nor NK. In Iran it has been a disaster and Putin was, a short time ago asking for medical supplies, which doesn't bode well. Having the largest and most expensive bureaucracy in the history of the world, doesn't seem to have done much here.
     
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    Your post-hoc fallacy aside...
    - If you look at countries that commit mass murder upon their people...
    - If you look at countries that invade other countries and commit genocide upon their people....
    - If you look at countries that try to exterminate Jews, gypsies, and other racially undesirables...
    They all have strong central governments.

    That's cause that's the way the world works.
     
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    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    I said 'name one' in response to this post:

    So, name one? And "injecting people with bleach' is what Trump suggested, and no way in hell would I believe in that.
     
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    It's a 100% correlation. Saying it's a fallacy without backing it up is BS, your specialty.

    Changing the subject will also do you no favors.
     
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    :lol:
    You apparently don't know what "post hoc ergo propter hoc" means.
    I shall educate you:
    Correlation does not prove causation.
    Truth hurts, eh?
     
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    The countries that were successful made a strong, national response.
     
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    No but it changes whenever politics is involved.
     
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    No, it does not.

    But that's still the way it works. Which we proved with our failure..
     
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    Those countries don't have the constitutional limitations on their strong central government that ours does.
     
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    And thus, your citation of correlation means... nothing.
     
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    You keep making assertions you can't back up.

    I had no idea this forum had an award for the most boring troll.
     
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    Not true (on the point that the entire investigation was based on the dossier). Read the MR report for the hard truths.

    as for

    The only point of an investigation is to prove, or disprove, a suspicion, and note that either outcome reveals a successful investigation. There was plenty of suspicion (Trump fired Comey 'because of the Russia thing") , and note that the investigation was initiated by a Trump appointee, (Rosenstein) to be headed by a Republican (Mueller).

    And your comment does not refute the substance of the post to which you are replying.

    The ONLY damn reason Trump is president is not due to the will of the people, but due to a fluke in the electoral college system, which was NEVER intended for a minority to elect the president. Giving smaller states a larger voice does not equal 'minority decides' as many republicans believe. It has happened only five times in electoral history, and that makes it a fluke.
     
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    Patricio Da Silva Well-Known Member Donor

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    There's an art to creating metaphors. You should learn it.
     
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    I named three. Perhaps you're having difficulty parsing the statement you quoted?

    At no point did Trump suggest anyone should be injected with bleach. That means you've just indicated that you do believe one of the media lies that was offered as an example.
     
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    :lol:
    Says he who agrees correlation proves nothing, but believes his point about correlation means something.
    So, your winning said award must have been a surprise.
     
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    You should focus on your argument, rather than ad-hominem.
     
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