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Just like somehow you’re not wrong about Obama signing the “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” into law.

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Again, you proved nothing of the sort. You pulled manure out of your butt and presented it as “facts and logic,” but you cited no evidence, and presented no logical arguments to back up what you were saying.
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Fact: You said people segregated boys and girls for fear of feminizing boys.

Fact: I said you imagine that.

Fact: You said you didn’t.

Fact: You did imagine it, right there on that thread. You claimed I wanted to segregate boys and girls because I feared feminizing boys.

Fact: I had said no such thing.

Fact: You had imagined it (it wasn’t there, yet you saw it).

Ergo: You were wrong. You do imagine people wanting to segregate boys and girls for fear of feminizing boys. You did it right there on that thread.

Those are all facts, but the part of your brain that recognizes when you’re wrong is malfunctioning, so somehow you don’t see that.

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ZK, the only thing you proved on that thread was that you disagreed with me, and that was based solely on your opinion, not on facts or logic.

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It wasn’t my opinion. It was your own words that proved you unambiguously wrong.

There’s something wrong with you:

When you’re looking at proof that you’re wrong, you’re like the automatons on Westworld looking at pictures of the world outside the park: “That doesn’t look like anything to me.”

This is why I refuse to spend time debating you any more.

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CA Renter, this is normally where I break out the facts and logic and evidence and reason. But that takes a lot of time, and you’ve shown that you’re immune to it anyway.

Remember this?:

https://piggington.com/middle_school_logic?page=9

I spent many an hour countering your ridiculousness, and I proved, using your own words, that you were unambiguously wrong (my assertion was that you imagine people being motivated to segregate girls and boys by fear of feminizing boys. You said you did no such thing. And, right there on that thread, you did exactly that – you imagined me doing it. You accused me of doing it when I hadn’t). Yet you continued to insist that you were right.

So, if you can’t see, even when it’s unambiguously proven to you, that you’re wrong, why would I spend my time trying to convince you?

I will throw this out there, though, because I think it’s kind of funny:

Saying that OWS and the Tea Party protests were started for the same reason is like saying the “Free Mumia” movement and the “Execute Mumia” movement were started for the same reason: They were both angry that Mumia was in jail.

Sure, they both don’t like the state of government/corporate interaction. But if one wants less corporate influence on the government, and the other wants less government influence on corporations, then they don’t want the same thing.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-09-17/real-meaning-1-year-anniversary-occupy-wall-street

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That article is your defense of ZH?

Wow. You’re kind of making my point for me.

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This is one of the things his constant lying and erratic tweeting gets us:

“We’re just operating in this world where you cannot believe the things he says,” said Eliot Cohen, a foreign policy expert and former George W. Bush administration official at the State Department. “It will have large consequences for our allies and our adversaries, and it’s going to greatly magnify the danger of miscalculation by all kinds of people.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-chaos-theory-of-donald-trump-sowing-confusion-through-tweets/2016/12/23/11e1315c-c928-11e6-85b5-76616a33048d_story.html?utm_term=.c27510f9a61d

Absolutely pathetic. What a loser. Could you trump voters really not see this coming?

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Even as a would-be authoritarian strongman he’s lame:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/trump-isolates-himself-with-c-i-a-attack

He attacked the CIA when they said something he didn’t like. What a surprise. That won’t help anybody, let alone him. What a pathetic loser.

He’s not even president yet, and he’s already fucking up in major ways. Could you trump voters really not see this coming?

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I agree, this is genius:

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Buy twitter, shut down Trump’s account ,and threaten to ban him for life….

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cue flu chuckling maniacally, then crescendoing to manical laughter

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[quote=CA renter]I’ve yet to see them promote a story that had no basis in reality[/quote]

Is that your bar? A “basis in reality?”

Good god, it’s no wonder you can’t recognize propaganda.

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I’ve seen far more…propaganda on CNN [than on zero hedge].

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And this is what is wrong with our country. People don’t know propaganda when they see it.

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Those are all solid. I’ve been trying to wean myself off news. You’re right, it serves no purpose. But it’s hard. I don’t want to feel (or be) uninformed.

Hey, I wonder if the whole country swore off news what would happen. I think the country would be better informed, because they would get no news instead of the fake news they gobble up on facebook, instagram, fox, breitbart, infowars, etc.

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http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/the-political-bargain-behind-trumps-cabinet-of-lamentables

Interesting theory. Trump fucks over the whole country to make himself richer. Sounds about right.

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I hear ya, man.

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[quote=flu][quote=zk]I predict trump will continue to create his own alternate reality (denying, for instance, anything the CIA or any other agency says that he doesn’t like), and that his idiot followers will believe that his “reality” is actual reality.[/quote]

It’s time to come to terms with the reality. Might as well try to profit off of it. At the end of 4 years populists probably won’t be better off. But you certainly can be.

Time to start thinking for yourself and your family.

Don’t fall down..

Just think of this in terms of third person narrative. This is of comic proportions.

We will settle somewhere in the .middle one of these days….

Just look at how BrExit is going. Talk about buyers remorse. They are already trying to redefine what NO means…like it doesn’t necessarily mean “leaving the single market”[/quote]

I’m definitely down with trying to profit. The effect that trump’s erraticness, poor diplomacy, weak cabinet, incompetence, etc. will have on any particular investment seems hard to predict, though.

I’m open to suggestions.

If there was a “bet against the job prospects/real wages of working- and lower-middle-class Americans” investment, I’d put some money in that.

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I predict trump will continue to create his own alternate reality (denying, for instance, anything the CIA or any other agency says that he doesn’t like), and that his idiot followers will believe that his “reality” is actual reality.

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