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Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World' by padseeker on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:24AM (#20800597)
The author has another article with the following headline:

"Republicans Can Own The Libs on Climate Change By Defending Nuclear Plants On The Brink"

That's troll language. This guy is not a legit journalist.

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Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World' by dahfizz on Monday August 26, 2019 @12:52PM (#20801419)
This is a low brow ad-hominim attack.

The article he has written is worth discussing, and by dismissing it out of hand because of your politics you are adding to the problem.

We're supposed to be intelligent people on HN. Let's discuss ideas, not who or who not might be trolls. A "troll" who has genuine and substantiative ideas backed by facts aren't trolls IMO, so by focussing on the content the trolls get weeded out anyway.

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Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World' by RealityVoid on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:53AM (#20808592)
While I appreciate your sentiment and in principle agree with you, I have a hard time arguing points of people who do not argue in good faith. And it does seem like the author is trying to persuade more than he is trying to make a logical and/or correct point.
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Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World' by rand0mbits on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:13AM (#20838781)
He didn't dismiss the article out of hand. He debunked its points and then pointed out that the author seems to have an unstated agenda.
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Re:The Amazon Is Not the 'Lungs of the World' by mc32 on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:27AM (#20800626)
That raises the question who in today’s media doesn’t get involved in trolling or clickbait headlines anymore?
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