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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Your main accusation is lack of fact-checking and easy to prove "lies"?
Thanks - I hate wasting irony!
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An old couple with a cat. That's the "side" you see of "Snopes".
I would be willing to bet that the majority of their statements are probably more true when you negate what they state on different matters.
Product of the state.
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That link you sent me, to that "Realist News" guy. Is anyone actually dumb enough to listen to what he says? Especially cast in the light of all of the items he "features" on the left edge of his page. Also, just listening to how he says what he says - generalities defining generalities (e.g., many people - what does that actually mean?). Well attack the messenger to avoid the message. Seen a lot of that lately, too.
Wait - it's 2016 - there is a vast wasteland of the willing.
Are you one of them?
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I do hope you read the bottom of the article:
"This political satire column originally appeared in the Peoples Cube. The author is the Kommissar of Viral Infections with additional reporting by Red Square."
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Additionally, the picture was obviously doctored.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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1. No, this is the Lounge, not the Soapbox.
2. snopes.com. I always get a good laugh when someone tries to disprove one internet source by using a different internet source. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: 2. snopes.com. I always get a good laugh when someone tries to disprove one internet source by using a different internet source.
As good a reason as any to only accept as fact the things you want to accept as fact.
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yes, and I read on the internet that Abraham Lincoln said "One shouldn't trust everything you read on the internet."
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I can't help myself - +
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What rants? I see nothing related to that in the Soapbox.
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I believe it's about a reply to a post that JSOP posted. Of course, his own biased rants are okay, it's only others he's got his knickers all twisty about.
This space for rent
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JSOP?
Forget it, I think I know who that is
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That name is whispered with reverence and even a little bit of fear in the darkest depths of the internet.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Of course, his own biased rants are okay,
Biased Rants has nothing to do with my post. The soapbox is for biased rants.
Reread: it's posting (often ludicrous) fallacies, easily checked, but not checking them. In particular, that such is done knowingly and willfully because their beliefs are more important than the truth.*
*That, by the way, is a recursive impasse.
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If you tell a lie long enough, it will become true.
I'd rather be phishing!
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You've obviously been enjoying the US political season.
Although the concept's old, it's still reliable.
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Quote: The Soapbox allows you to stand up and have a rant, tell a bad joke, complain about someone or post stuff that that may not be appropriate for reading at work and/or isn't strictly IT industry related.
I occasionally let loose, and even less occasionally, apologise for any offence. But it really is an open forum. if you find it not to your taste ...
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No - you misunderstood what I was getting to. It's not the type of things that are posted, per se, but that people will post things that are readily provable as false, that they know how to prove as false, but choose to present as though it were true.
The question is, and quite a philosophical one at that: If you suspect something is a lie and can check its veracity but "choose not to", so you don't for a fact "know" it to be a lie, does that make it OK? [even from the SoapBox]
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That's my rant - not what's posted in terms of tone, but the display be people about how little regard they have for any truth that doesn't agree with their world view.
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I don't think there is much you can do about that, people often believe what they choose to believe, and the 'truth' is not always absolute. The recent thread about Trump vs Clinton provided some nice examples.
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If only these people would read Machiavelli's "The Prince" - and see what's being done to them and how long it's been done to people.
The current election cycle has a theme: J'accuse ! - prove me wrong. An an ill-educated audience lapping up the manipulation.
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Most of them would not even know the book exists, and even if they did, would probably not understand it. To be honest it's not an easy read. However, I get your point, and tend to agree with you, but ... boys will be boys.
OT: I'm trying to figure out the origin of your name, it does not give any clues.
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He is a Freemason. W and the three dots representing a triangle.
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 something new I learned today.
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