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Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by dalke on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:45AM (#11175636)
He probably didn't say that. As http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/04/universe-einstein/ points out, the original saying was attributed to a "great astronomer", then followed by "To-day we know that this statement is not quite correct. Einstein has proved that the universe is limited." These later got merged.

In any case, you are making a fallacious argument from authority. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority#Appeal... :

> A common example of the fallacy is appealing to an authority in one subject to pontificate on another - for example citing Albert Einstein as an authority on religion when his expertise was in physics.

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Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by TheLogothete on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:52AM (#11175699)
In fact, I don't care that Einstein told it. Or didn't.

I quoted it because it sums my thesis pretty well. People are very, very stupid. You cannot count on them not being swayed by some pretty words and blowing the whole treaty out of the water with some misguided protests.

Perhaps if you frequent HN, you don't know how stupid people are, because you only talk to the the smartest 10%.

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Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by RodericDay on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:04PM (#11175814)
Are you one of these "Dark Enlightenment" people who want to go back to unvarnished rule by an elite and stuff like that?

People being stupid (short-sighted, narrow-minded, self-centered, ignorant) includes people in power. If you're not a fan of democracy, you should just say so rather than dance around it.

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Re:TTIP Enters New and Dangerous Stage as Democracy Is Disma... by dalke on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:28PM (#11176517)
Do the smartest 10% cherry pick misquotations in order to defend their arguments via a logical fallacy?
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