Brive1987 wrote: ↑
You all look the same to me.
Nicely informed and unintentionally hilarious. :lol:
You could have reasoned that this was intentional by the fact that I used the word "looked" instead of something relating to your message. That was a joke, so I'm glad you found it funny. It was supposed to be ironic.
"Predictions are difficult to make, especially about the future" - Yogi Berra
I think you meant "accurate predictions" but I got your drift. Lets all confine ourselves to what is objectively known. That will be fun.
"Accurate" was not part of the original quote. I can't fault you too hard though because this is an American celebrity from the 1950s, and I also misremembered the quote.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future"
There is some contention about whether he was the first to say it.
My point here is that you are making a speculative assertion in a way that is significantly more confident than I think you have any right to be. Maybe you'll be right, but I think that would be a lucky guess. Last election I was very confident that Trump would be defeated. I thought I had good reason to be - most of the statistical models showed a safe win for Clinton, and 538 had correctly predicted every state but one (Indiana in 2008) in the last two elections. The problem was that the polls showed a large portion of undecideds and a lot of them broke for Trump. Additionally the Democrats weren't that into Clinton and didn't turn out. So a bunch of analysts with the best available statistical data and sophisticated computational models ended up being wrong. The Democrats are expected to take over the house this year based on polls and historical patterns, but I'm not counting any chickens yet. Speculating about 2020 is just silly.
The fun thing about news is that you don't know you are getting facts when you hear them. I would have thought you as a history student would understand this, but I guess that's a testiment to the low quality of humanities education these days. So in order to avoid being duped you don't get your news from certain places. You don't go to places that are likely to make shit up, or report inaccuracies without clearing them up.
People like you, who don't evaluate your sources are one of the biggest problems with my country. This is why we have people charging into pizza restaurants with AR15s looking for made up pedo rings that some sociopathic talk radio host imagined.
So fuck you, you are the problem with your glaring inability to detect bullshit.
The notion that the MSM has become less objective during the current culture wars is uncontroversial. Though your point was far from clear.
I also fail to see which sources in the video (you refused to watch) I should evaluate. Its a safe bet you don't know either. Though opinion passed on stock news footage is not exactly Alex Jones. But thank you for equating me with Pizza-gate mad men. It clearly places you in your box.
You regularly post screwballs like Lauren Southern or Faith Goldy without any hint of irony. I didn't always have the low opinion I do of you now, but you went off the deep end on this crazy ethno-nationalist kick complete with cheap whore propagandists. The fact that these people are intellectually shallow agents provocateur is also uncontroversial. Moreover, it's uncontroversial that you can find made up shit on youtube, and that a lot of stuff on that platform is garbage. I just read your post about how you read mainstream news and opinion as well so you get a balance. Good for you, then, but I tend to judge people at the slymepit by what they post on the slymepit, and I'm not impressed by the shit you post.
You get points for spinning my disrespect for you as though it were my deficiency. That takes chutzpah.
You seem very angry. Unhinged even. :naughty:
And you seem smug, overly convinced of your own intellectual superiority, and self-important. What's your point? I'm an angry person, I hate the direction my country is going in right now, and I tend to hate people pretty indiscriminantly. Don't feel too special if I bark at you from time to time.
