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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)11/29/2017 9:55:30 am PST

re: #318 Alephnaught

Isn’t this like when you get these idiots on social media giving you a quote from a famous person in an attempt to do an Argument From Authority manouvre on you, but thanks to your Google-fu, you can determine that it’s a fake quote. You respond to them to this effect, with links as evidence, and they respond along the lines of: “It’s doesn’t matter if the quote is fake!!! THE POINT IT MAKES IS REAL!!!!!!!!1!!ELEVENTY!!!

Oh do you bloody think so? a) If it’s real, why use a fake quote? b) The only thing that’s clear from this exchange is that it’s a fake quote. So there’s no guarantee that the issue you are talking about is real. It’s not like you’re actually checking if the “evidence” you’re using bears any resemblance to the real world.

(Usually they block me after this point.)

I have a wingnut friend whose timeline could be debunked by Snopes. I choose not to deal with him since he’s stuck in his ways that unregulated capitalism is wonderful and that transgender people are awful freaks who should be treated like they’re disturbed. If he wasn’t my friend for over 25 years, I’d honestly would have removed him a long time ago.