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Re:We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s... by tptacek on Saturday February 10, 2018 @11:34AM (#16347995)
Unless you have countervailing qualifications —- in which case you should talk more about them so we can ask good questions of you —- it’s unhelpful to bring qualifications into the argument.
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Re:We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s... by Turing_Machine on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:33PM (#16348721)
Nope, it doesn't work that way.

The military budget is set by those who actually do have expertise in the area, not me. I don't need to show expertise to accept the judgment of experts. The OP is disputing those experts, and thus does need to show expertise.

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