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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by nosianu on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:02AM (#20951533)
> Nothing about this article seems untrustworthy.

You got it reversed. What about it seems trustworthy? Russel's teapot and all that, the one making claims has to prove it, not others have to disprove it.

> Politico is a highly trustworthy paper

Trust-proof should be per-concrete-article, not per publication.

> Your comment seems out of place.

[Citation needed] :-) -- Seriously, I don't see anything wrong. Okay, you dislike the opinion, I get it.

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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by habnds on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:39PM (#20953509)
Isn't the reputation of a publication a legitimate part of evaluating an article?

Your attitude seems very close to a position that we can never truly know anything.

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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:29PM (#20954045)
No, GP's position seems to be closer to "actually being sure about something requires more evidence than has been given".
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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by Faark on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:49PM (#20954256)
To me it feels more like "more evidence can ever realistically be available, especially on intelligence operations, thus i can just ignore articles with content I don't like". Especially the attack on reputation worries me, since this is pretty much the only thing left to go on for average humans without unlimited time.
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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by habnds on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:59PM (#20954386)
right, at best it's crippling. At worst it becomes a device for dismissing any news that is inconsistent with one's worldview. "That probably isn't even true."
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Re:Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near th... by pixl97 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:40PM (#20954170)
> What about it seems trustworthy?

That Israeli spies have been caught multiple times in the US, spying.

If you've have a history of murdering people, I'm at least going to give some attention to the people saying you've murdered again.

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