ObjectivityIncarnate

cis he/him

insert ‘I’m gonna pre’ compilation

Did you really tell someone else that they need a bit of mental gymnastics to not make an assumption?

If enough people assume something about you, it’s true

Great life lesson for the kids.

You got a LoICE-nse for that list?

Just about everyone responded with “yes” or the equivalent, so I don’t think it was themself who was revealed, lol.

Doesn’t mean execution is the appropriate response, which is what they’re getting at, I’m pretty sure.

Not to mention it’s more expensive than imprisonment, even life imprisonment.

Do you know for a fact that those kids weren’t impregnated by other students, though? Kids fooling around with each other consensually is much more common than adults messing with kids. I wouldn’t automatically assume rape.

EDIT: lol downvoted for asking a clarifying question, smells Reddit-y.

Re 1, probably, but Starbucks isn’t just “coffee”, it’s like a luxury brand of coffee, lol.

When people can’t afford even the basic stuff, then I’d consider it an indicator.

most of the documented infractions were traffic or immigration offenses.

“Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?” --Mitch Hedberg

It makes perfect sense for deportees to be deported for immigration offenses–that’s basically THE reason to deport someone in a country. Don’t see anything controversial about that.

But it looks like “traffic” is thrown in (indeed, mentioned first) to make it sound more sensational–after all, that sentence is still technically accurate if it was 99% immigration offenses and 1% traffic offenses.

I’ve got the feeling that if you considered traffic only, “most” would no longer be accurate, so I looked over the article. Lo and behold (or don’t), no figure at all for traffic at all. Not even a mention of it after that line.

I hate these underhanded rhetorical ‘maneuvers’–unfortunately, when the spin leads to a statement that makes the ‘right team’ look good, too many people happily swallow the result, no matter how disingenuous it might be.

It shouldn’t be only the ‘other team’ that pushes back against bullshit like this.

Cool unsourced/debunked fabrication from a literal tabloid, took me all of two minutes to find this, after looking for an actual source, when the OP-linked article didn’t have one:

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-reported-transgender-military-plan-called-out-charity-1991052

Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug. For shame.