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whoops no this is UC Davis in 2011. the cop pepper spraying these nonviolent student protestors filed for worker's compensation claiming "psychiatric damage" due to having his name released and won more than $38k USD in compensation.

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[-] [email protected] 73 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, I see you all planned some astroturfing in advance. Very credible.

[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago

Nah, it just comes up a lot. No worries

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

Fucking daily. It's infuriating. It's so frustrating. Why are they obsessed with a completely absurd fantasy about this one specific incident? Catholics aren't this obsessive with the crucifixion.

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago

having sources is astroturfing, not having sources is evidence of being correct. of course.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago

Can you explain what is the difference between astroturfing and providing sources and evidence?

[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago

Jesus christ. I wish you were a bot. Bots actually have an excuse for being unable to exceed their programming.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

Aw fuck oh shit oh fuck

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

calling ad hominem when someone isn't even making an argument is chefs-kiss

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ah, you're right, they're just throwing insults to no real point or purpose beyond some delusional sense of superiority.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Not only is fallacy reffing stupid, it's not even an example of ad hominem, it's just an insult.

Ad hominem: "You're wrong because you're a doo doo head."

Not ad hominem: "You're a doo doo head and you're wrong."

Also not ad hominem: "You're a doo doo head because you're wrong."

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It seems you're right, this behavior is of lower quality than even abusive ad hominem, and probably just fits in the "name calling" base of the hierarchy. Lowest of the low. There's a lot of examples of such behavior in this thread.

Complaining about "fallacy reffing" is very self serving when the fallacy is on your side. It pretty much demonstrates that no one here is capable of having a debate in good faith.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

You fuckers literally cannot fucking help yourself holy shit.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ad hominem? More like yourmominem.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Not everyone takes Western medias depiction of things as fact, I mean if you werent a complete dipshit the least you could do is try to composite a narrative from Chinese and Western sources instead of taking the #1 Geopolitical enemies word for it and countless other things it has lied about.

You've seen first hand how shitty American government and it's goons are to it's own people why do you think they wouldn't lie about their main adversary?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Tinyman Squirrel noooooo

Babybrain

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

No, but we do have reading groups, encourage each other to expand our knowledge, and post useful and interesting links to each other if they're interested. You know, like most people do, like a community does.

Also: imagine being proud deliberate ignorance.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

Even if a corporation paid for that, a list of links would still not qualify as astroturfing

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