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TrogL

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29. I think we're talking past each other.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #8)

Mon May 28, 2012, 03:29 PM

May 2012

>baggers who are into science fiction are also birthers

If you're trying to say "I know baggers who are into science fiction that are also birthers", that's one thing.

If you're trying to say "I know that all baggers who are into science fiction are birthers as well", I think that's fallacy of the undivided middle.

>I suspect their gullibility is due to years of science fiction

I read lots of science fiction. I'm hardly gullible.

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I've read lots of science fiction - nothing about birtherism in there TrogL May 2012 #6

Where did I claim that science fiction contained rightwingnuttery? freshwest May 2012 #8

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