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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Spencer Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: Elon Musk Could Have US Citizenship Revoked Date: 03 Nov 2024 15:35:28 -0400 Organization: Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop Lines: 54 Sender: mds@enoch.nodomain.nowhere Message-ID: <87r07s6rgf.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere> References: <1r2fcze.b6yfp31n2bf39N%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <1r2fewc.1s3hwtopd54f8N%snipeco.2@gmail.com> Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 20:35:30 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="89b71ea12462298b9a7dbd77da91d33f"; logging-data="534495"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19T8Umq1E9Y1hFEJJqAWIWt9TY5G7iGSKI=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:DKKKF5FT+V2l7ACpSeHilWQITeI= X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.7 X-Clacks-Overhead: 4GH GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 3781 snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) writes: > You have not so far answered my question: > > Which authority has determined that the ""great replacement" > conspiracy theory" is false? You're asking a black-swan question. Who has proven that black swans don't exist? Intrinsically counter-rational. In addition, it's probable that nearly *all* the weird thing that conspiracists hypothesize *exist* somewhere. There are undoubtedly (or at least arguably) some people somewhere who ardently believe that doing whatever they find themselves able to do will make the American electorate non-white or non-European or something and "they" can take over. But the conspiracy theory alleges that such a project is the work of the Democratic Party or at least a secret consortium of liberal elites with access to the power to bring about the dread brown democalypse. Those deranged conspiracists aren't talking about Bubba and his sister-in-law who are meeting with neighbors over Jack Daniels in Salt Hole, Utah, on Saturday nights. So you might throw up the latter as an existence proof, as silly as that might be. Cokie's Law is the axiom that says the press can pass judgement about anything once it's "out there" regardless of whether or not what's "out there" is true. This allows them to skip doing boring rebuttals of the facts at hand and instead hold forth at length about how it bears on the subject's "judgement" and the "appearance" of wrongdoing without ever proving that what they did was wrong. -- Digby I will admit, the people who drove the digital revolution, including myself, really thought that the world would get more rational....There were a lot of them out there. They were just not finding each other. And now, with digital tools, say: 'Oh you think that crazy thing? Me too! Let's get together and have a critical mass of crazy people. Let's, you know, call ourselves QAnon.' -- Bill Gates The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in "Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire" and the computer will ask, "Specify type of goat." -- Rich Jeni It's not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity and make it work for you. -- Frank Zappa -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada