Project Veritas Expose Could Be THE END For Bernie Sanders, Video Shows INSANE Far Left Rhetoric

Gracehoper · 2020-01-17T06:32:54+00:00

The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world

Gracehoper · 2020-01-17T06:31:04+00:00

No, of course we shouldn't always believe all women, what a ridiculous idea.

We should assess claims based on evidence and common sense.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-17T06:26:58+00:00

It's got a lot to do with the economic imperatives of online advertising. Clicks pay the bills. Accuracy does not. The quickest way to build traffic to a website isn't to inform people, or to make them think, but to tell them what they already want to hear, pander to their Belief System.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-17T06:24:56+00:00

chet looks like a satanist to me

This is not a strong argument.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T21:13:16+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmUnNOuww90

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T21:11:05+00:00

Different people find different things "interesting".

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T20:26:29+00:00

Think about it: if a mother beat her son to death, that would presumably happen in a private place. How would word of the source of the altercation get out to the press?

That common sense, along with the culture-war stink about the story, makes me suspicious

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T20:24:33+00:00

this story set off my bullshit alarm too

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T20:19:59+00:00

As far as I can tell, it was a private conversation with Warren, that Warren is just now remembering/reporting, that Sanders denies. So the only source is a political opponent of his who has good reason to paint him in a bad light.

Most of the rest of what you're saying has already been debunked.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T13:57:33+00:00

What are the facts here?

What did Bernie Sanders say, when, where? Was it in public, on air, at a speech, or in a private conversation? If in a private conversation, with whom, and who is reporting it now?

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T13:56:21+00:00

wooosh

Gracehoper · 2020-01-16T13:56:07+00:00

I agree

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T22:35:54+00:00

What do you mean by "intervene"? Economic/diplomatic/legal?

It seems the core of your moral agonising is whether the nature of the "intervention" takes away the "agency" of the other; it's not clear to me that diplomatic efforts do this.

I think we both agree that persecuted LGBT refugees have a right to asylum.

These articles might be of interest to you. They're about "Western" diplomatic efforts on behalf of gays: 1, 2

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T22:09:16+00:00

I found this article about what I think you're driving at: Western countries giving asylum to persecuted gay refugees.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T21:49:13+00:00

Diplomacy

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T21:11:54+00:00

Ah, "Western" ;)

Historically, these sorts of "pan" cultural movements are rarely successful: pan-Arabism, pan-Africanism, pan-Westernism.

I don't see "Western culture" suddenly uniting in response to slavery or homophobia (not sure which you're talking about now). France and Germany and the UK and the US and Canada are always bickering among themselves.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T21:04:13+00:00

Have you heard of diplomacy?

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T20:16:40+00:00

Countries don't lose sovereignty unless they commit genocide or territorial aggression.

How should we "fix" homophobia in black African nations? Interfere with our superior culture

Which culture are you referring to with "we/our"?

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T01:00:05+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpblgM-rxGE

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T00:41:10+00:00

But why "predict" responses in your head, instead of talking to another human?

Gracehoper · 2020-01-04T00:27:02+00:00

Oh, you want to....

Because a natural reaction that Leftists have....

the first response is....

they have the same reaction....

They get so angry.....

Flame wars have gotten next-level. You don't even argue with the other side. You just argue in your own head against what you imagine the other side would/might say.

Gracehoper · 2020-01-03T22:46:10+00:00

lol look at that title. Sets up and knocks down a strawman for itself.

If it "Sounds like something a filthy colonizer would do" then why did you suggest it in the first place?

Gracehoper · 2019-04-19T12:26:16+00:00

racist comments such as 'All lives matter'

Gracehoper · 2019-04-19T12:25:28+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve#Structure

The Federal Reserve System has a "unique structure that is both public and private"[49] and is described as "independent within the government" rather than "independent of government".

The U.S.'s Fed derives its authority from Congress and its Governors are appointed by the U.S. President. Calling it private is misleading.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-19T11:44:40+00:00

Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_central_banks

Care to provide an example of a private-sector central bank?

Gracehoper · 2019-04-19T11:42:20+00:00

wut?

No.

People were literally ratting out their neighbours to be sent to death camps. People were being lynched for handing out pamphlets. High security? Mutual trust? You have to admit? wut?

Gracehoper · 2019-04-19T11:23:37+00:00

I don't like BootEdgeEdge, but "this guy used a Right-Wing Term, therefore he's a bad guy" is pretty much The Worst Argument in the World

Gracehoper · 2019-04-19T11:21:27+00:00

Central banks are privately owned institutions.

No they're not. They're public-sector.

had to be payed back

Most countries never pay off their debt. The United States was debt-free on Jan 8, 1835 and on no other day in its history. Debt is a bogeyman, not something that needs to be realistically worried about in macroeconomic planning.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-12T22:01:36+00:00

I find it a reasonably persuasive idea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_money

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-35418946/quantitative-easing-for-the-people

http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2012/08/01/how-about-quantitative-easing-for-the-people/

I mean, governments/central banks have to issue money somehow, and that has to get into people's hands somehow. The normal way is to issue it via banks that then give loans, but why not cut out the middle man?

Gracehoper · 2019-04-10T22:05:07+00:00

Nice. Keep up the good work.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-09T23:59:57+00:00

Hopping is good.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-09T23:55:34+00:00

Yes, but some of you won't like it.

Lobby your elected officials.

I know some of you are opposed to State intervention for abstract reasons, but when corporations runs rampant, legislation is the only thing that stops them.

The GDPR has done more to diminish the power of surveillance capitalism than any written article.

Vote. Call your officials. Write letters to your officials. Use the legislative machinery. That's what it's there for.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-09T12:45:16+00:00

I don't care

Gracehoper · 2019-04-09T12:42:28+00:00

Leave me alone!

Gracehoper · 2019-04-08T23:54:22+00:00

Yeah, client-side voluntarist filtering is the future.

AdBlock is client-side filtering and we all like AdBlock.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-08T23:51:12+00:00

I like this.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-08T23:46:51+00:00

I don't believe this.

Netflix subscribers stream for 93 minutes a day, 10h51m a week

This government survey found men have 5h30m of leisure a day, women 5h.

Plus it just doesn't sound right intuitively.

Gracehoper · 2019-04-08T23:34:27+00:00

Gracehoper · 2019-04-08T23:29:30+00:00

This doesn't sound like something Descartes would've said. Which book is this from?

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