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st3ph3n @midwest.social

3mo ago

MAGAt loses his federal job

Cross posted from Discuit

209 comments

- So, basically we know it's a falsehood because it's plausible. Saying something plausible is precisely what a liar would do!
  
  No, I don't.
  Please elaborate.
  
  Thanks ❤️
  In any case, all this is very little proof that the story is a falsehood. Obviously, by default everything you read online falls to the category "this may have happened", but that's all we really have.
  
  Yup, because the burden of proof is on the one who made the claim. But that only allows us to say the text is not necessarily true.
  When you say the op is lying, that's a new claim, where the burden of proof is on you.
  
  ...although, because selling a house ASAP if you have a loan with large payments for it, is the only logical course of action if long-term unemployment is assumed, nothing to that extent has been demonstrated.
- I don't understand why so many people are eager to (metaphorically) scream "FAKE!!!!" at every story (that isn't highly unlikely) told on the internet. Sure, maybe, but does it even matter? Odds are good something like this did happen somewhere.
  
  Yes, and the difference is that facts show they are incorrect. False equivocation. "Man sells house after losing job" is not even remotely equal to "Haitians eat peoples' pets."

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