Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Rich Lock,
zero.
O'K I'll confess to not reading at Veterans Today very often.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Neil,
greater transparency,
I heard that we had reached peak transparency. Was that fake news?
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to nzlemming,
a bridge.
I'm wondering whether I was positing the existence of alternative placements of the abutments.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to andin,
any number of us completely lose the plot
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Kumara Republic,
the futility of war.
It has been tempting to think that most of Europe had learned similarly. But there seem to be fractious elements there also. And secession in the area is already evident. Some might say annexation.
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Speaker: No, there isn’t a popular…, in reply to Dennis Frank,
As a longtime student of ethology, I too would be very interested. We could do it here: just a thought :-)
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to David Hood,
The blog post systematically underestimates clintons numbers by half.
Claiming that interim numbers are lies seems a weak argument
And rejecting the fact of moral relativism seems somewhat absolutist.The point I was trying to make , and which you illustrated, was that agreeing on the facts does not solve this problem, assuming that there is a problem.
We seem to agree that there are "lies, damned lies , and statistics ".
You assumed wrongly that I was taken in by the use of statistics, but that is of no consequence. It was just a variation on name-calling to allege ignorance on my part. That had already been done.Misinformation and disinformation seem to have equal currency ; this is politics after all.
The question in my mind was whether genuine dialogue is possible in this climate ; will the U.S. become united?
There are calls for secession, but that is not new. A civil war would not be without precedent.
And finally we might agree that electoral systems both can and should change , but before the elction is held. -
O.K. I’m getting it now.
Alt- right (WTF?) = misogynist, racist , neofascist.
That clears that up.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
I thought that his whole thesis was merely a rejoinder to those who were arguing that Clinton held the moral high ground on the " strength " of having won the irrelevant popular vote.
Why do you think that it was dishonest?
Anyway the point was that the facts remained the same: the numbers were not fudged.
That was the only point of relevance to the discussion we were having.