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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by bearjaws on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:09AM (#37235290)
You can't logic your way out of a position you didn't logic your way into.
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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by Waterluvian on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:19AM (#37235426)
Google doesn't return any meaningful results for this. Is this your quote? It's really good and I'd like to duplicate it for regular use.

Edit: Aha I found it by relaxing the query params: probably Jonathan Swift.

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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by hotnfresh on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:21AM (#37235455)
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/?amp=1
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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by matt-attack on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:32PM (#37242741)
> Jonathan Swift

Well that makes some sense. Thanks for highlighting this excellent quote.

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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by psychphysic on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:11AM (#37235324)
Well put.
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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by jackmott42 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @09:13AM (#37235353)
Yeah, a lot of people have this idea that you fight misinformation with calm, collected, rational argument.

Well, I guess I need to prepare a cold, calm, collected rational argument about how that isn't at all effective, heh.

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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by robofanatic on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:05AM (#37236105)
Only if you can prove that birds are real.
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Re:Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon by readthenotes1 on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:47PM (#37238779)
A friend of mine said:

You can't logic your way out of a crazy box.

(Referring how to treat with people who are somewhat mentally Disturbed)

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