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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMr. or Ms right wing screamer: please have a seat, take a deep breath, turn off your cell
phone and try to just listen for a change. I know you have been conditioned to not just automatically disagree with anything said by a person without a MAGA cap, but to interrupt them and shout them down. But, about 80% of Americans understand that, when people do that, it means that they are cowards who know, deep down, that their views are so ridiculous they cannot be defended. Will you concede or proceed?
All right then!
In this first session, we'll start with just the basics---the sort of things most functioning adults thoroughly understood by the time they moved beyond the milk and cookies stage of their early years education.
So,--- what is a "fact"? I won't ask for a show of hands of those who know the answer to that because I am here to educate you, not humiliate you.
A "fact" is a statement based on objective reality. And, ---hang on tight here---facts can be PROVEN! Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. If you have any doubts about that, you can prove it with a readily available thermometer. Those are FACTS!
Facts either are or they aren't. That is, they either exist or they do not. And, this next part may startle you: facts can be DISCOVERED, but facts cannot be created by simply ANNOUNCING them! You can call "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" and "Trump is a genius" "facts" untiI you're blue in the face and your tongue comes off its roller, but those remain, not just lies, but transparent lies!
Finally, as a bonus with today's lesson, before the Trump years, "alternative facts" were simply referred to by the more familiar term "bullshit".
Okay, I hope that is not too much for you to process without Himself or one of his brown shirts telling you what to think about it. There will be no more of these sessions until I see some evidence that you understand what you heard in this one. If you don't understand what facts are and respect them, my time would be better spent stalking unicorns than trying to make informed responsible citizens of you.
"Thus, endeth the lesson."
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)they would listen. Keep speaking truth!
NBachers
(17,108 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,702 posts)Unfortunately I was bested when challenged to prove, as fact, with or without scientific means and measures, that consciousness actually exists as objective reality.
It wasn't a political conversation and I passed the test.
erronis
(15,241 posts)graduate from #1.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)I'm SO thankful that they didn't cancel this class just because SO many seemed to be 'not interested' and refused to register.
I'm wondering if it is because they would feel funny sitting in a classroom while wearing those silly red hats?
cate94
(2,810 posts)I actually got angry with my MIL. She was spouting her opinions, gleaned from Fox no doubt, and I said opinions are not FACTS. Your opinion and my opinion need, first and foremost, to be based on FACTS. Im afraid I shocked everyone in the room.
malaise
(268,967 posts)"alternative facts" were simply referred to by the more familiar term "bullshit".
Moostache
(9,895 posts)When exactly did America become the supporting case of Talladega Nights: The Legend of Rickey Bobby?
We are over-run with morons who confidently spit out lies and disinformation with a complete disregard for the amount of bullshit they spew. In the meantime, those of us who KNOW they are full of shit are aghast at the mewling mob cheering for this shit!
Just like "Idiocracy", stupidity spoof movies have become reality TV...
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)and most assuredly the furthest concept from logic.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Nictuku
(3,607 posts)I admire your writing skills. That is a piece of art. If I credit you Atticus, may I borrow? (just for personal use, send it to my mom, perhaps use it on facebook at an appropriate moment)
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Nictuku
(3,607 posts)You are generous! Thank you. (I wouldn't ever take credit for something I didn't write).