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From: Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: 25 Jan 2025 00:10:28 GMT
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On 2025-01-24, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:52:18 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
> wrote:
>
>>Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> writes:
>>>On 2025-01-22, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>>>> Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> writes:
>>>>>On 2025-01-22, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>>>>>> Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> writes:
>>>>>>>On 2025-01-21, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>You seem to live in a very different world than I do, Scott.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You seem to live in a fantasy world.
>>>>>
>>>>>Please supply your facts and cogent arguments for this. I gave my
>>>>>reason; you did not dispute it at all, providing no evidence.
>>
>>Let's reset.
>>
>>I posted a link to the wikipedia article that shows Mr. Trump
>>ranked last amongst US presidents.
>>
>>You didn't address the rankings, you just claimed all historians
>>are registered democrats so their rankings are not meaningful.
>>
>>You clearly didn't read the page which describes the methodology
>>of the surveys (which attempted to balance political ideology of
>>the respondants).
>>
>>Why don't you, first, elaborate on exactly why you think that
>>ranking Mr. Trump last is incorrect -- based on the actual
>>criteria, not some personal assumptions about ideology of the
>>respondents?
>>
>>You clearly don't understand the use of Hyperbole in argument
>>if you're focused on a throwaway comment related to the frequency
>>of Mr. Trump's incoherent utterances and namecalling.  Which may not
>>be every other word, but could likely be every other sentence.
>
> Oh, I think he understands hyperbole pretty darn well.
>
> And uses it a lot.
>
> As his "claims" regarding historians show.

Paul, exactly how does my claim regarding historians show hyperbole?

I gave a citation and facts. Having 33 registered Democrats for every
registered Republican among historians seems like good evidence to me.
And that doesn't even include the other liberals.  In 72 of the 170
departments studied (includes the other 4 areas in addition to
historians), the number of registered Republicans was less than or
equal to the number of registered Green Party and Working Families
Party members!

History is a unique academic field. You get tenure by having new ideas
about events in the past which is much easier for liberals looking to
upset conventional history (which I agree needed upsetting in many cases.)

Chris