Have you forgotten the N5A is watching?
Of course, they’d never think to include letter substitution in their filters…
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No, he’s not dumb, but he’s not having a debate with rational people like you and me when he says stuff like this either. You’re looking at this like a rational, logical argument, but the people Trump is speaking to are the people who voted for him, and they’re not looking at this rationally. If they were, they never would have voted for him. To them, his arguments make sense, and when he says stuff like “many people say…”, they take it for granted that that’s true. And how do you argue against that? Facts don’t work because he just says, “No, you’re wrong” and they believe that too. I’m afraid we’re going to just have to hold on for 4 years and hope as time goes on that more and more people realize, “hey, this guy is not making America great again. Things are getting worse.”
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Because the “privatised” British railway system is mostly run by partly State-owned European railway operators, since the capitalists couldn’t figure out how it works. Atlas Shrugged has to be kept away from naked flames because it contains so many straw people.
…the Right has always been anti or post truth, because truth doesn’t support their beliefs. It goes back long before Adolph; classical Athens had Alcibiades. And it had Plato, who tried to do a Rupert Murdoch job for the upper classes (“philosopher kings born to rule”) so that the University of Oxford is still teaching him to would-be politicians. Plato basically said that the upper classes should lie to the lower classes to retain control, and he has been parroted in various forms ever since.
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There is absolutely nothing noble about the Shithead-elect or any of its supporters. Every last one of them is either a pig or a pinhead and they have the motives and goals you would expect from pigs and pinheads.
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QFT (and for ripe pithiness)
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21st century physicist: “Define what you mean by ‘empty space’”.
Although for some experiments electrons and quarks act like point particles, generally speaking they behave as if there is “something” there, which is why atoms don’t just fall through one another.*
Topologist: the glass is always full. It’s full of glass. That liquid is not linked to it in any way.
*To be exact, the probability distributions that are solutions of the Schroedinger equations behave as if they were actually the shape of a real physical object. QFT and QED are pretty damn factual, but they are also seriously weird.
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Man I’m as anti-trump as anyone, but her point was pretty clearly ‘people call things facts but there’s a lot of spin that goes into a lot of things people call facts and some things are hard to call one way or the other as a fact but people still do’. Nowhere in her piece did she say ‘EMPIRICAL TRUTH IS A FICTION, POSTMODERNISM REIGNS, HAIL CHAOS, HAIL HYDRA.’
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No, her point was that the feelings of Trump supporters are just as valid as actual investigation of reality. The specific example she used was whether or not it is a fact that there was an inconceivably massive voter fraud effort resulting in millions of fraudulent ballots cast for Clinton. That’s not a comment about spin, that’s a comment about how believing things that are straight up fiction is a valid epistemological method.
The right wing in America is definitely in the “HAIL CHAOS” range for facts, and yes, they took it straight from the postmodernists.
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“There’s no such thing as facts.”
“Is that a fact?”
“Well… no!”
Hmm.
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