It's just math.

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Like they know math figuring.

They can barely count money. dt is an Adderal addict.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Thanks kpete, this was funny.

[CatMor]

3. God is really f**ked up.

[Towlie]

30. Hitler was a vegetarian. Hitler was evil. Therefore, vegetarians are evil.

Or, in its more commonly seen form:

"Hitler was an atheist (he actually wasn't). Hitler was evil. Therefore, atheists are evil.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. This is an exercise in bad logic. This kind of syllogism* to arrive at the truth of a matter

is patently false and used the first week of Logic 101 to illustrate how NOT to come to factual conclusions.


* An instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ).

Deductive reasoning as distinct from induction.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Yup. Was about to post about the obviously bad logical fallacy in idiot Bill Mitchell's tweet. . .nt

[progressoid]

21. Woosh.

That's the sound of your fancy pants liberal edukashun going over the heads of Mitchell and his followers.

[D23MIURG23]

23. Its actually a deductive syllogism with a missing premise.

I can fix it by adding the bolded premise:

P1: God favors America
P2: God favors everyone who favors America
P3: Donald Trump favors America
C: God favors Trump

The above syllogism proves that if premises 1 - 3 are true then the conclusion has to be true. In fact you don't need premise 1. I included it because Mr. Bill included it, and I think he meant for premise 2 to follow from it (it doesn't).

Now that the syllogism is corrected the problem is merely that every premise is ridiculous gibberish with no basis in reality. Premise 2 is especially bad because even if you believed premise 1 as an article of faith, there is no reason for premise 2 to follow from it, or to be true in general. I might favor Michigan State University, but that doesn't mean I would favor everyone else who felt the same way. I wouldn't favor Larry Nassar or John Engler if it turned out that they also favored MSU.

This whole thing smacks of some cheap apologist trying to be William Lane Craig and doing a really bad job of it.

[no_hypocrisy]

24. I'm impressed with your analysis.

[Takket]

5. hahahahaha that's great!!!!!!!!!!

kicked!

[lapfog_1]

6. Bad Math

bad symbolic logic actually

He is trying to use "favors" as "equals" whereas the word is more of a "contains"

So his stmt is A is contained by B
C is contained by B

Therefore A and C are either equal or a proper subset of each other (A is contained by C)

But that is demonstrably false. One can easily draw a Venn diagram that shows B with both A and C as distinct subsets or overlapping subsets.

[7962]

10. Annnnnnnnnnd I'm out!!

Never was good at that stuff

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Worse than that.

Trump adores ice cream.
Hitler adores ice cream.
Trump adores Hitler.

It's neither containment (subsets) nor logical inference. It's not deductive nor inductive.

It's RubleCon emotionality.

Putin grabbed a pussy.
Trump grabbed a pussy.
Putin grabbed Trump's pussy.

[D23MIURG23]

19. Penguines wear black. Melania wears black. Therefore Melania is a penguin. n/t

[RockRaven]

7. The level of derp in some people is beyond parody. If someone had tweeted that 1st tweet as a joke,

it would have gone over like a lead balloon. I'm honestly surprised people who have this much trouble with logic and cause-and-effect survive to be middle-aged. Between gravity and electricity alone something should have gone horrible wrong for this guy before today if this is representative of his brain processes.

[blugbox]

29. I just had to comment to say I love your post!

Your words are exactly how I would have phrased my own response, and this being representative of your brain processes... I approve!

[bucolic_frolic]

8. It ain't even math. It's invalid logic.

It's instantiation, but without tangible facts for testing.

Simply, Baloney!

[7962]

9. I first read that as "its just meth". Whoops!

[progressoid]

22. Potato Potahto

[dalton99a]

12. You love guns, your enemy loves guns, therefore you love your enemy? FAIL

[bitterross]

14. God clearly does not favor America.

Not sure where dufus got that idea. Oh right, God is a white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Heterosexual, Male. Therefore, he must love America.

ON EDIT:

I'd like to remind him that Mexico and Canada are in America too.

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. Yeah...funny how you guys scooped that one up for yourselves.

There isn't one other South, Central, or North American country that refers to themselves as "America" only the USA. Granted The United States of America doesn't sound that catchy. But come on, you could've invented some other name, maybe taken from your native heritage, like we did in Canada. Even the old USSR reverted back to their old name Russia.

Reminds me a bit of how IBM and Microsoft appropriated the term "personal computer" or PC in the computer world.

Oh well, that's ok, you can have it. Its not that important in the grand scheme of things.

[cstanleytech]

15. So Bill, if God hates adultery God must hate Trump right?

[JHB]

17. It's not even math. It's fallacious logic, which means it's not even logic.

It is shit-for-brains dumbassery, so he does have that.

[defacto7]

18. Human devolution... the proof.

[0rganism]

20. lol something faulty in that syllogism

it's just towering idiocy

[Renew Deal]

25. Bill Mitchell knows that what he's typing is not true as he types it

Bill Mitchell knows that Trump doesn't favor America.

[Permanut]

26. Wait, I'm getting a different conclusion.,

- Trump IS God.

[lunasun]

27. But it's not math

[Gothmog]

28. I love the Hoarse Whisperer