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Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by unclebucknasty on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:48PM (#13864546)
You watched a video that is over an hour long and you generally seem to have put a lot of thought into the veracity of Obama's birth certificate for someone who claims to "not particularly care" about it.

Then you move on to discuss your feeling that Obama wiretapped Trump, based only on the fact that Trump said it and you find the "style" of Obama's denial unconvincing. It doesn't seem to matter one bit that Trump himself offered zero evidence of this claim and is even trying to walk it back.

The short is that you seem to believe whatever fits your personal narrative. Worse, you try to convince others to blindly believe divisive, destructive, nonsensical conspiracy theories without a scintilla of proof.

Saying "we don't know for sure" is dissembling nonsense that can be stated of any claim. It's a transparent device for sowing disinformation without challenge. One could just as easily say, "I think you're a rapist. Of course, I don't know for sure."

Unchecked disinformation wreaks havoc on democracy. This nonsense is literally destroying our country.

Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by Criticesid on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:34PM (#13864762)
> Saying "we don't know for sure" is dissembling nonsense that can be stated of any claim. It's a transparent device for sowing disinformation without challenge.

This needs to repeated more!

Thank you internet stranger, your words have lifted my spirits today.

Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by 55555 on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:31AM (#13865011)
> Saying "we don't know for sure" is dissembling nonsense that can be stated of any claim. It's a transparent device for sowing disinformation without challenge.

It is that at times. At other times, it is simply something people say when they suspect something but do not know it for sure.

Re:Rand Paul: NSA Routinely Monitors Americans’ Communicatio... by unclebucknasty on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @05:54PM (#13871827)
Agreed. I suppose you have to simply consider the context to help determine which it is. If it follows a load of other dissembling nonsense, then it's probably the former.