Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: 22 Jan 2025 22:37:31 GMT Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <%q9jP.50906$G93a.23994@fx05.iad> X-Trace: individual.net uvnjyvdFp/U8ud3xhMJghgy3+JzER22LvPG1aovYXcqX8HC+4Z Cancel-Lock: sha1:EXVC5iQDtZqTgDtlZlol+ffmqIo= sha256:WlMfpsZG3FRSM/H5gfIjnxEg1+Nfmv00fiTTatrSHEQ= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 3553 On 2025-01-22, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Chris Buckley writes: >>On 2025-01-21, Scott Lurndal 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. >>Please supply your data and cogent rebuttal about namecalling. > > Pretty much every sentence out of the mouth of your pathetic > felon hero is calling someone a name. THIS is what you consider "evaluating the data" and providing a "cogent rebuttal"??? WOW! 1. It doesn't address the issue at hand at all; this is not about what Trump says. 2. It's not factual at all. Suppose you allow a 3% error rate in your "pretty much every sentence". If I supply 100 sentences of Trump that are not calling someone a name, do you agree to supply 3300 different sentences of Trump that call someone a name? That should be equally easy according to your "fact". 3. Trump is not my hero. As I've stated several times over the years, I have never voted for Trump. I've been quite disappointed that neither major party could come up with an acceptable candidate in the last 3 presidential elections. At least the Libertarians had an acceptable candidate all elections. >>In my world, the namecalling and personal attacks in this newsgroup >>in recent years has almost exclusively been done by the liberals here, >>as witness the past few days. > > You've just made my point. In your context, 'liberal' is perjorative. So in your opinion "liberal" is pejorative? I certainly don't believe it is. It is descriptive. Provide your evidence. >>You also don't realize that current historians are almost all liberals and > > Oh, nonsense. Wow! Another fact filled cogent argument! You even snipped the full sentence and omitted the qualifications and facts that I supplied. Annoying things, these facts. If you want more facts, how about https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/10/03/voter-registration-data-show-democrats-outnumber-republicans-among-social-scientists which discusses a study looking at voter registrations among 5 different social science disciplines at 40 top universities. Over all 5 departments, Democrats out-numbered Republicans by an 11.5 to 1 ratio. But History departments by far had the most lopsided ratio: for every Republican historian, there were over 33 Democrat historians! I await your cogent rebuttal. Chris