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I’ve been watching America from the outside for several months now and I’m seeing something that concerns me. There is a concerted effort by the GOP to embrace ignorance that I’m calling “Everybody Knows”. I’m seeing it everywhere. Here are some recent...
by ontheleftcoast
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on Thu Apr 07, 2022 at 11:39 AM PDT
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Earlier this week, Dr. Judith Curry wrote a post on her Climate etc. blog asking for some help with something she’s writing about cognitive biases and logical fallacies. She apparently could “use some help fleshing out” the definitions of terms like Ad...
by ClimateDenierRoundup
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on Wed Oct 07, 2020 at 06:11 AM PDT
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So I used some insulting language the other day in a comment and got a Time Out. Although I got really angry about it in the moment, after a bit of reflection I realized that my language was over the top, though it was not crude, was not hate speech,...
by Le Gauchiste
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on Thu Dec 27, 2018 at 08:49 AM PST
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The debate over health care in America underscores, more than any other issue, the fact that the only thing Social Conservatives and Fiscal Conservatives have in common is the word "Conservative".
I've always been bothered by this.
On social...
by krb
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on Fri Mar 10, 2017 at 06:21 PM PST
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When arguing with somebody, there’s nothing more frustrating than pure dismissal of your strongest argument with a wave of the hand. Pence codified it with “There you go again with that Mexican thing.” It’s a combination of 3 fallacies (from...
by liberalismiscommonsense
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on Wed Oct 05, 2016 at 08:43 AM PDT
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Fischer’s Historians’ Fallacies was my father’s way to introduce me to formal critical thinking. Though Fischer focussed on dissecting errors of thinking in historical writing, his insights apply to most of life. One of his fallacies, the fallacy of...
by Wee Mama
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on Wed May 04, 2016 at 08:32 AM PDT
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Originally used in debate between the Communist Party and American Socialists of the early-to-mid 20th century, as a way to describe the “correct” positions on political matters, the word ‘political correctness’ (PC) was later adopted by...
by TheLovingThinkingFighter
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on Sun Jun 12, 2016 at 08:52 AM PDT
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Yesterday's reaction to the President's press conference as reported by media, on the Iran agreement reminded me of a previous add that I saw in an add early in a previous presidential campaign. ...
by LeZi
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on Thu Jul 16, 2015 at 07:25 AM PDT
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or is that psyco?
I listened to Lindsey this morning on CNN and MSNBC and even Joe, yes, Joe himself! had to call Lindsey on the fact that neither he nor Joe had read the deal. Even Joe said he is ...
by LeZi
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on Tue Jul 14, 2015 at 07:23 AM PDT
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I have been bogged down doing a dairy entry using Scalia's dissent on gay marriage with technical problems. (I am having problems with the block quote and my 'live writing' style and having things ...
by LeZi
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on Tue Jun 30, 2015 at 09:38 PM PDT
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This is Part 2 of the Blog-Series : "Fracking Up The Golden State"
If you haven't already, please read Part 1 : The Insinuating Implications
The Democratic Party & SB 4
Environmental Blindness & ...
by FractivistForce
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on Tue Sep 24, 2013 at 11:11 AM PDT
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Virtually every Tea Party argument is a fallacy. That's not a scientific poll or anything, just a very biased observation through Facebook meme's, which appears to be where the Tea Party gets the ...
by backell
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on Thu Jan 31, 2013 at 09:23 AM PST
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Defense of Marriage Act, D. O.M.A., is a carefully designed rhetorical gimmick falsely giving the impression that “marriage between a man and a woman” or “straight marriage” is under attack, ...
by zenox
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on Thu May 10, 2012 at 05:01 PM PDT
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Read My Lips: No New Taxes
by Grover G. Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Op-Ed Contributor, nytimes....
by jamess
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on Sat Aug 06, 2011 at 09:44 AM PDT
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Many of the Facebookers among you will recognize a new meme that is occupying status updates this week. Disappointed by the degree of credit that President Obama is receiving for the death of Osama ...
by Philosoraptor
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on Wed May 04, 2011 at 10:34 PM PDT
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I put “privatization” in quotes because it is really corporatization , and quite frankly is a much better term for the further theft of taxpayer dollars for the well connected corporate ...
by clammyc
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on Wed Mar 02, 2011 at 06:50 AM PST
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Welcome back everyone. Today we will be discussing an argument that is often ...
by XNeeOhCon
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on Mon Aug 23, 2010 at 09:29 AM PDT
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The Missing Link, Creationism and Climate Change
By Graham Wayne
The ...
by Mokurai
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on Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 09:19 AM PDT
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We've all heard it; too often in fact. The tired old conservative lie that "the rich are the ones who create jobs". This is often closely tied in with "cut capital gains taxes" and "concentrated ...
by PiRierran
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on Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 03:56 PM PDT
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The 2nd amendment gets way too much respect (really, we should all have access to nuclear weapons?) but there is one argument in favor of it which, above all others, displays the incoherence of the ...
by wguk
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on Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 06:27 AM PST
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