"The evidence is hard to find, and so they have decided they do not need to find any." --Magnolia Sterling, 22 days into a family "cleanse," on the FDA retraction.
#satire#parody#ConfirmationBias#MotivatedReasoning
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Judge halts the $111B Paramount-Warner deal for 14 days. Order bars any step to integrate operations. New office says editorial posture is not an operation. Daily 7:15 call. Nothing decided. #satire#parody
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A doom report: 10-30% odds of extinction, a $1M/year dividend if we make it. Brent Flagstone has reviewed the terms and calls them the best a working man has been offered in years. #ai2040#MotivatedReasoning#DunningKruger#satire
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Detroit's air quality index hit 720 this week. "Good" is 50 or under. Newswax columnist Brent Flagstone mowed his lawn twice last Thursday and would like to know who picks the colors.
#parody#AnecdotalEvidence#MovingTheGoalposts
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OpenAI Published the File-Deletion Risk 16 Days Before It Happened; Our Digital Freedom Correspondent Photocopied the Public Document as Proof of the Cover-Up
#parody#MotivatedReasoning
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A New Report Asks Whether America Is on a Wartime Footing and Concludes It Is Not; Our National Security Correspondent Read the Charts and Skipped the Conclusion https://t.co/u3Q2zL98qB
#satire#parody#CherryPicking#CognitiveDissonance
"The very Parliament she raided is the Parliament whose auditors exposed her." Clive Ashford-Pemberton reports from Brussels that Marine Le Pen running for president proves the European project is winning.
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#satire#parody#MotivatedReasoning #ConfirmationBias
“You Know What Scum Is?” In June: Iran's leaders are "very rational," "smart," "nice to deal with." This week: "scum," "sick people," "vicious." An official says both readings still stand. #satire#parody
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A leading war analyst says Trump's Iran war exposed U.S. weakness and left him no fig leaf to hide the defeat. Newswax's Brent Flagstone read it and volunteered to be the fig leaf.
#satire#parody#MotivatedReasoning
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Trump Declared Iran’s Unconditional Surrender in June. The U.S. Is Now Bombing Iran to Enforce It. Officials say the surrender is holding.
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#satire#parody
Area Dad Defends Grill Placement He Chose in 2019 as if It Were Handed Down; The instinct to enshrine a choice rather than revisit it has been visible at higher levels of American life this summer. He referred more than once to “the way we’ve always done it,” a tradition now in its seventh observance.
#parody #satire
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A #CSIS brief finds Russia losing in Ukraine and urges the West to press harder. Officials agreed with the first half. 'If they're destroying themselves, why interrupt?' one said. #parody
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Poll Finds Nearly Half of Americans Don't Know What July 4th Celebrates; Amateur Constitutional Scholar Says the Questions Were Rigged
#satire#DunningKruger#CherryPicking
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