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A comment on The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikely Supporter. Parent comment

Re:The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikel... by fdsaaf on Friday July 22, 2016 @12:48PM (#12144761)
Women's suffrage (and suffrage in general) may be a good idea. When you say that the case for it being a good idea is as strong as that for a mathematical proof, you're discrediting yourself, since you're smart enough to know that political ideas can never achieve the rigor of proof.
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Re:The Strange Politics of Peter Thiel, Trump’s Most Unlikel... by vasilipupkin on Friday July 22, 2016 @01:29PM (#12145105)
you are clearly missing the point of this conversation. The point of this conversation is not to claim that 2 times 2 is equal to women's suffrage, but to simply state the obvious: when somebody says something that sounds pretty obviously idiotic, the likelihood that this person actually is an idiot goes up dramatically.
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