Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting

Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:08AM (#24787210)

Since the roles are not reversed, they're working together to bury it and trying to pretend it doesn't exist, because they're con-artists

Yeah, I remember when the editor-in-chief at WaPo settled a Federal suit for $20M to avoid facing charges for his role in running a fraudulent university. Good times. Then there was the NYT board member whose namesake cancer charity foundation was shut down by the state attorney general's office because it turned out to be a front for his own business and political interests. What a con artist, huh. Not to forget the time the chairman of the Democratic National Committee stiffed his contractors for $70 million on a casino project that later went bankrupt. There oughta be a law.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by Wolfenstein98k on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:36AM (#24787918)

Ad hominem. Trump may be awful, but that has no bearing on the argument you're responding to.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @04:57PM (#24793826)

I especially like how I'm guilty of an ad-hominem fallacy, while the person calling their opponents "con artists" while citing no evidence whatsoever wasn't.

Re-examine your own biases, then post.

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by Wolfenstein98k on Thursday October 15, 2020 @05:29PM (#24794250)

Name-calling isn't ad hom.

Poster didn't say "they are con artists", they said "they are doing this and this, because they are con artists".

Your response was tu quoque mixed with ad hom: "oh yeah? Well the other guy is a bad person!"

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by CamperBob2 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:12PM (#24794787)

There is such a thing as moral authority, you know. Look around you. Does it look like you're sitting in a philosophy classroom?

(If it does, take the opportunity to freshen up on your Kierkegaard.)

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Re:Facebook, Twitter block the NY Post from posting by Wolfenstein98k on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:49AM (#24798227)

I'm simply pointing out your argument was cognitive dissonance and completely ineffective.

I'm sure you could engage with it directly and without fallacy, you're obviously bright, but your replies were very low-brow ad hominem and tu quoque.

PS I don't invest "moral authority" in almost any leading politician today, though I certainly rank Biden higher than Trump in the "personal morality" stakes.

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