• Fleur_@lemm.ee
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    30 days ago

    The evil version of this is when people cite a click bait article, you go to the article and read the attached study and the study is not backing up their claims in any meaningful way. Like come on bro you clearly haven’t read this study don’t cite it and claim I need to educate myself.

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    28 days ago

    I’ve definitely noticed people who challenge anything you say by asking for a source, but make tons of unsourced claims themselves.

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      28 days ago

      Sealion infestations are problematic. Be sure to call your local exterminator promptly whenever you encounter one.

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    You get people who believe jet contrails only started appearing in the 90s even though that they didn’t is literally within living memory.

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    I literally had to cite the page number from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 Public Law 117-328 that covered how the $800M that Trump keeps telling everyone FEMA spent on migrants was a completely different fund than the disaster relief fund that FEMA uses for hurricanes. Which the DRF was established originally as it’s own fund in the Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act of 1988 Public Law 100-707

    It’s page 4,730 where that item is located for anyone wondering.

    I fucking hate what online interactions have become. I think I’ve easily read over 200,000 pages of government legislation, federal regulation, and legal proceedings since June because of the lies one orange shit stain keeps telling. I really do hope that the Republicans can move past that fucker, it was a lot easier to talk politics.

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      Republicans have a hard time understanding nonliterals, it’s honestly weird and one of the most common denominators between them I’ve noticed

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        Weird to think that human civilization will collapse out of a misplaced sense of fairness where we think it’s better for uninformed people to have a choice even if that choice dooms us all. Liberalism is going to collapse in the silliest way

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          Weird to think that human civilization will collapse out of a misplaced sense of fairness where we think it’s better for uninformed people to have a choice

          Every one who wants something other then what i want is uninformed.

          To the uninformed, no representation for you. Get over it. Go to therapy to cope with your new forever.

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            Yeah when it comes to fascism, climate change denial, failing to meet the basic needs of citizens, and other conservative platforms, I don’t give a shit about their representation

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          The goal should be to have less uninformed people overall by educating the population. But unfortunately the people in charge keep voting against funding education (and basically anything beneficial to society).

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    People who make memes mocking the expectation of a source are the ones responsible for the downfall of society

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      Not everything needs a source. There is such thing as “common knowledge” . Things get very out of hand and very messy if you try to source EVERY claim. Obviously there are limits to this and I put common knowledge in quotes for a reason but seriously I mean it when I say not everything needs a source.