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[–] 129 points 2 years ago (5 children)

A lot of people who think they're saying "[actual fact]" are really just stating "[subjective opinion]" and call any criticism of their opinions "[incoherent rage]"

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  • [–] 74 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Actual fact: The democrats don’t control the weather and create hurricanes to destroy Florida.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Actual fact: abortion is a life saving medical procedure

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Subjective anecdote: hurricanes are a life saving medical procedure.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    How can you say them being suggestive if they haven't suggested anything. Bro cant even talk.

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  • You can control the weather to some degree and governments do, do it. Its just the word 'control' implies significant amount of control when in reality it is very minor.

    Often these conspiracies are rooted in actual facts, just that facts get distorted insanely. Even if one person in the chain made a mistake, everyone else after them will also make the same mistake.

    (Just an article on could seeding if anyone is interested )

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    [Coment attempting to have an intelligent and witty take on the conflict dispite two typos from either lazyness or stupidity]

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  • [+] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    On the other hand, when someone claims something is impossible/something has never happened before/something happens every single time, but you have just 1 anecdote from a credible source that contradicts that claim, then that 1 anecdote is enough to know that they are wrong.

    Example: some pundit states: our government has never executed an innocent man. You just need proof that they have executed a single innocent man to show that the pundit has no credibility on the subject and that it's thus not an impossibility that other executed men were also innocent.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    A fact is not enough - your audience will form an opinion based on it. That prevents objectivity.

    You need to select your facts (pro and contra a point of view). And in the process you express your opinion which is based on the mentioned facts. It's very hard to be objective and quite easy to do framing.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Personally I'm all about objective opinions.

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