• @bamfic
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      161 year ago

      The first civil war never ended. It entered a cold phasw for 150 years or so. That’s heating up now.

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        There were even people waving the battle flag of the Confederate army/navy when the neoconfederates invaded Congress on January 6, 2021.

        I still can’t believe that these people are getting such light sentences for taking up arms and invading the Capitol.

        • prole
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          61 year ago

          If they were communists, they’d have been executed by now.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      71 year ago

      A viewpoint like that is very subject to confirmation bias. Literally any crime is held up as evidence that it is correct. Look at the terms you are using “cold” “about a decade”. It isn’t a who, what, where, why, and how. It is vague.

      Reverse it for a moment. Treat it like a claim in science. What evidence would you use to try to prove your hypothesis wrong?

        • @afraid_of_zombies
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          141 year ago

          These are rhetoric tricks. Refusing to defend your viewpoint and trying to use carrot+stick.

          Why not answer my question? It will be easier than bring out stuff that would have been caught that easily.

            • @afraid_of_zombies
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              71 year ago

              ’s like asserting that because I can’t give the scientific explanation for why the grass is green, it must not be, while I am pointing at the grass on the ground and showing you its color.

              Your analogy is false. We have as much data as we want that grass is green. We have no data about the future since it hasn’t happened yet. To predict the future to any degree we have to look at trends of the past and apply the scientific method to it.

              Again, it’s up to you to be willing to accept the reality in front of you

              Forgot the name for this one. It is when you assume the conclusion to get the conclusion. I know it’s a basic logical fallacy.

              I can only lead you to water.

              Ok your Cassandra/Jeremiah routine is wearing thin.

              Choose wisely. Your family depends on it.

              Bifurcation, and FUD.

              • @Intralexical
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                11 year ago

                Forgot the name for this one. It is when you assume the conclusion to get the conclusion. I know it’s a basic logical fallacy.

                Tautology. Circular reasoning, if you will.

            • @Intralexical
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              -11 year ago

              …Right. So, based entirely on faith, with nothing to substantiate it, and with a healthy dose of some weird Messianic complex.

              Also, as another commenter pointed out, we actually have surprisingly robust data affirming that yes, indeed, the spectral albedo of grass does show peaks in the 530-550nm range correlating to M-type cone photoreceptor cells­— I.E., Is green. Civil war isn’t the sort of thing you’re going to be able to pass off as self-evident.