ChiGoose Posted October 16, 2023 Posted October 16, 2023 I find it interesting that so many people believe that Dems want open borders while the GOP wants to solve the border crisis. Both are lies. 1
Tommy Callahan Posted October 16, 2023 Posted October 16, 2023 10 minutes ago, ChiGoose said: Both are lies. but they together make a false Dilemma, False Dichotomy, false Binary. IE, Propaganda A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference but in a false premise. This premise has the form of a disjunctive claim: it asserts that one among a number of alternatives must be true. This disjunction is problematic because it oversimplifies the choice by excluding viable alternatives, presenting the viewer with only two absolute choices when in fact, there could be many. False dilemma - Wikipedia 1
BillsFanNC Posted November 11, 2023 Posted November 11, 2023 1 minute ago, Tommy Callahan said: Good. Electing communists has consequences. It's going to get much, much worse. 1 1
BillsFanNC Posted November 11, 2023 Posted November 11, 2023 2 minutes ago, Tommy Callahan said: It's an absolute mystery how the orange dude can be polling historically high among black and latino voters... I just can't put my finger on it! 1
Doc Posted November 12, 2023 Posted November 12, 2023 That's fine. Just make sure they stay in Chicago. 1
B-Man Posted November 13, 2023 Posted November 13, 2023 Chicago sings blue-model blues Mayor Rahm Emanuel desperately seeks a way out of the government union trap. Glenn Harlan Reynolds | USA TODAY Around the nation, this year, you can see two phenomena at work: One is the collapse of what Walter Russell Mead calls the “Blue Model” of government, one based on unions, racial/ethnic politics, high regulation and high taxes. The other is the steadily more desperate efforts of Blue Model politicians to keep kicking the can down the road. For starters, look at Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago. Rahm Emanuel, a major inner-circle supporter of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is not a stupid man. Nonetheless, he’s finding it harder and harder to hold things together. Right now, Emanuel is facing problems over the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. Video makes it pretty clear that the shooting wasn’t justified, but the city withheld the video until, conveniently enough, after Emanuel had won a sharply-contested election. McDonald’s family received a $5 million settlement (which some have characterized as hush money) and emails obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times last week show that city officials were more interested in managing the news than in getting to the bottom of what happened. Meanwhile, Chicago faces other problems, including a secret jail where prisoners were kept from their lawyers, numerous other instances of police misconduct and racial discrimination and a sinking school system. As Mead, a professor of foreign affairs and the humanities at Bard College, notes, this poses problems for Chicago in more than one way. First, the economic recovery that Chicago and other major cities have experienced in the past couple of decades is likely due at least in part to more aggressive policing that brought crime rates way down. But aggressive policing means more confrontations between police and citizens, which means more chances for violence. Plus, as in most large, Democratic cities, the police and other city workers are unionized and, effectively, almost impossible to fire. As Mead notes, “There is a harsh conflict of interest between the city’s employees and the city’s voters. ... It is in the interests of public sector unions to shelter employees from oversight and threats to their job security, regardless of how well they perform.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/01/03/chicago-rahm-emanuel-blue-cities-reform-puerto-rico-bankruptcy-bailout-column/78228678/ . 1
Doc Posted November 27, 2023 Posted November 27, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said: Clown show. You know they’ve been told to do this. Edited November 27, 2023 by Doc 1 1
Doc Posted November 28, 2023 Posted November 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Tommy Callahan said: Looking at him, probably any meat he can get his hands on...
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