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   Rudy Canoza to David Hartung   
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   06 Mar 21 09:02:44   
   
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   From: j_carlson@gmx.com   
      
   On 3/6/2021 4:56 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   > On 3/6/21 1:02 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >> On 3/5/2021 11:21 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   >>> On 3/5/21 12:56 PM, Demented Old Joe wrote:   
   >>>>  [JThomQ incoherent bullshit snipped]   
   >>>   
   >>> These days the Democrats believe that they control the message.   
   >>   
   >> You can't even say what that's supposed to mean.  It's just right-wingnut   
   >> whinging and blubbering.   
   >>   
   >> There is a saying that I find grating and irritating, and I don't believe   
   it:   
   >> "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."  Stephen Colbert, a snide snarky   
   >> asshole, said that at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in   
   >> 2006 (what the fuck was he even doing there?)   
   >>   
   >> The expression is an overstatement.  It is not accurate to say that reality   
   >> has a liberal ("progressive") bias.  Rather, reality has an   
   >> *anti*-right-wingnut bias.   
   >>   
   >> Conservatives — that is, contemporary knuckle-dragging far-right-wingnut   
   >> reactionaries — are known to believe things that are easily shown to be   
   false.   
   >> For example:   
   >>   
   >>    * Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States   
   >>    * Hillary Clinton was involved in a pedophilia ring in the basement of   
   a pizza   
   >>      parlor that doesn’t have a basement   
   >>    * Climate change is a Chinese hoax   
   >>    * Unemployment rose under Obama   
   >>    * Evolution isn’t real but creationism is   
   >>    * Robert E. Lee was a patriotic American   
   >>    * A good guy with a gun is necessary to stop a bad guy with a gun   
   >>    * Mass murderers who are people of color are terrorists, while white   
   mass   
   >>      murderers are simply uniquely stressed individuals.   
   >>   
   >> You don't have to be a liberal or "progressive" to be able to see that these   
   >> standard right-wingnut beliefs are false.  Reality doesn't need to have,   
   and   
   >> *DOES NOT* have, a "liberal" bias.  Rather, reality has an anti-bullshit   
   bias,   
   >> and right-wingnuts have an astonishing tendency to believe bullshit, so   
   >> reality works against them.   
   >   
   > The fact that you believe the above to be "standard right wing beliefs"   
      
   They are.  This is proved.   
      
   Oh, and here's another:  "Trump won the election."  He didn't.  Right-wingnuts   
   are irrational.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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