Dr. Shades wrote:Dear DoubtingThomas:
Why did you type the words "Hillary Clinton is arrested" into your thread title when the article itself says no such thing?
Click bait.
Dr. Shades wrote:Dear DoubtingThomas:
Why did you type the words "Hillary Clinton is arrested" into your thread title when the article itself says no such thing?
Some Schmo wrote:Res Ipsa wrote:I don’t think so, Schmo. If lying is equated to being wrong, then why would lying be a bad thing?
I wouldn't equate them. There's certainly not the same underlying intent.
It's just the social climate we're in often makes it hard to distinguish between when someone is lying and is flat out wrong. The lines are being blurred.
Someone can be misinformed and, absent other relevant facts, believe it. There's nothing specifically wrong with that (except on the people doing the misinforming). It's how people react when confronted with compelling counter-evidence showing the facts that matters. That's where the lie either will or will not take place.
Res Ipsa wrote:Of course, maybe this is just the story my brain is telling itself because it makes sense.
At any rate, that story implies that I should be wary of accusing people of lying when they reject evidence that appears overwhelming to me. It also implied that many of the problems facing us today are a consequence of normal brain function resulting from evolutionary forces. It’s profoundly depressing view, but my brain seems to find it a reasonable one.
huckelberry wrote:It appears doubting Thomas has doctored the quote from the Fox article. There is nothing about Clinton being arrested. I do not know if the doctored quote is deranged wishful thinking or a cheap attack on Fox. I do not like Fox but it is not what the title of this thread would indicate.
DoubtingThomas wrote:It is just an obvious joke! Goddammit! I am making fun of conservatives.
Lemmie wrote: playing with us all with his apparent cluelessness]
Lemmie wrote: As did you! Sometimes I wonder if DT is some brilliant child, playing with us all with his apparent cluelessness. Or maybe he's so old 2016 is indistinguishable from NOW. In any case, it reminds me of a Deputy Dewey quote:
Some Schmo wrote:Gotta work on your punchlines. Nobody said comedy is easy.
Res Ipsa wrote:DT, all of us post stuff that falls flat. Just take your lumps and move on. Rewriting your opening post after it is criticized simply makes the thread incomprehensible.
DoubtingThomas wrote:I guess, but I was obviously making fun of Republicans. I wonder if some people really believed for a second that Hillary Clinton was arrested.