Fact Check: Is a "Louder with Crowder" video that shows vacant lots at voter addresses in Nevada and Michigan proof of voter fraud? No, that's not true: Lead Stories dug into the Nevada data and found at least two types of mistakes. In some instances, host Steven Crowder reported names and addresses that do not match Nevada voter records. In other instances, it appears the addresses on file with election officials contain typos or clerical errors. Neither instance is evidence of fraud or mass fraud on its face. [end fact check excerpt].
Fact checking isn't a "fraud". Nor is it "progressive". Facts are facts, even if they don't fit your BS narrative.
aka there is no such thing as truth or facts. Your method of delegitimizing reality. Confuse enough people and you win. Why you spew lies nonstop. You know some of them will gain traction. It's despicable.
Against positivism, which halts at phenomena--"There are only facts"--I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact "in itself": perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing.
"Everything is subjective," you say; but even this is interpretation. The "subject" is not something given, it is something added and invented and projected behind what there is.--Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.
In so far as the word "knowledge" has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings. --"Perspectivism."
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all the other drives to accept as a norm.
Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage for that which he really knows.
4 The error of imaginary causes. To begin with dreams: ex post facto, a cause is slipped under a particular sensation (for example, one following a far-off cannon shot)--often a whole little novel in which the dreamer turns up as the protagonist. The sensation endures meanwhile in a kind of resonance: it waits, as it were, until the causal instinct permits it to step into the foreground--now no longer as a chance occurrence, but as "meaning." The cannon shot appears in a causal mode, in an apparent reversal of time. What is really later, the motivation, is experienced first--often with a hundred details which pass like lightning and the shot follows. What has happened? The representations which were produced by a certain state have been misunderstood as its causes.
In fact, we do the same thing when awake. Most of our general feelings--every kind of inhibition, pressure, tension, and explosion in the play and counterplay of our organs, and particularly the state of the nervus sympaticus--excite our causal instinct: we want to have a reason for feeling this way or that--for feeling bad or for feeling good. We are never satisfied merely to state the fact that we feel this way or that: we admit this fact only--become conscious of it only--when we have furnished some kind of motivation. Memory, which swings into action in such cases, unknown to us, brings up earlier states of the same kind, together with the causal interpretations associated with them--not their real causes. The faith, to be sure, that such representations, such accompanying conscious processes are the causes is also brought forth by memory. Thus originates a habitual acceptance of a particular causal interpretation, which, as a matter of fact, inhibits any investigation into the real cause--even precludes it.
5 The psychological explanation of this. To derive something unknown from something familiar relieves, comforts, and satisfies, besides giving a feeling of power. With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. Since at bottom it is merely a matter of wishing to be rid of oppressive representations, one is not too particular about the means of getting rid of them: the first representation that explains the unknown as familiar feels so good that one "considers it true." The proof of pleasure ("of strength") as a criterion of truth.
The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause--a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving. That it is something already familiar, experienced, and inscribed in the memory, which is posited as a cause, that is the first consequence of this need. That which is new and strange and has not been experienced before, is excluded as a cause. Thus one searches not only for some kind of explanation to serve as a cause, but for a particularly selected and preferred kind of explanation--that which has most quickly and most frequently abolished the feeling of the strange, new, and hitherto unexperienced: the most habitual explanations. Consequence: one kind of positing of causes predominates more and more, is concentrated into a system and finally emerges as dominant, that is, as simply precluding other causes and explanations. The banker immediately thinks of "business," the Christian of "sin," and the girl of her love.
It isn't an "interpretation" to say an address with a typo is proof of voter fraud. Especially after you know the vacant lot isn't the address the voter provided.
"There are only facts ... only interpretations" is how people like you justify believing anything they want. A recent example of this is the rise in hate crimes directed at Asian-Americans. Dotard told his low-IQ followers to blame China -- and by extension anyone who appears (to their bigoted minds) to be Asian.
There ARE facts. Typos don't equal voter fraud. Dotard colluded with Russia. Asian people aren't responsible for the coronavirus. QAnon isn't an "interpretation" of facts. It's a cult that promulgates vile lies magamorons like. It attracts nutters like MTG. But you like her homophobia and transphobia, so proclaim your LOVE for her.
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."
So you didn't like the prominent use of a Nazi symbol at CPAC? I'm not buying it. The "GOP" remains the party of White Supremacy, something that should make you extremely happy. Though maybe what you object to is that it was TOO obvious?
ps - I'd never even heard of an "odal rune" until today. You Lefties need to get out more.... what's next, seeing the SS Deathhead in Grateful Dead albums and cancelling their music? lol!
CPAC 2021 Open Display of Nazi Symbols. In 2016 the National Socialist Movement (NSM) of America, claimed to be "buoyed by a Donald Trump victory", and announced a shift in symbols they considered headline-worthy: …white supremacists ban swastika in bold attempt to go mainstream. The Odal rune, a less-well-known Nazi Germany symbol, will take the place of the swastika on all official uniforms and banners. Mr Schoep says it's a gentler approach to preaching the same messages. "The party leadership has every intention to bring the party, our leaders, our members and supporters into the halls of government here in the United States, and to do that we must reach more of the public".
The stage at CPAC absolutely was a Nazi symbol. You say you prove it was a "hoax" by pointing a supposed "fact" that the stage was designed by an allegedly "liberal" firm. But I say "No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact in itself. Perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing".
My interpretation? The republicans who ran CPAC hired the firm and approved the design. They got a Nazi symbol because that is what they wanted.
Fact Check: Is a "Louder with Crowder" video that shows vacant lots at voter addresses in Nevada and Michigan proof of voter fraud? No, that's not true: Lead Stories dug into the Nevada data and found at least two types of mistakes. In some instances, host Steven Crowder reported names and addresses that do not match Nevada voter records. In other instances, it appears the addresses on file with election officials contain typos or clerical errors. Neither instance is evidence of fraud or mass fraud on its face. [end fact check excerpt].
ReplyDeleteFact checking isn't a "fraud". Nor is it "progressive". Facts are facts, even if they don't fit your BS narrative.
Fact checkers are propagandists They serve no legitimate purposes other than propagandize their versions of facts and events.
ReplyDeleteCrowder himself is a fact checker. You just don't like his propaganda so you shop the facts to one of your own.
ReplyDeleteaka there is no such thing as truth or facts. Your method of delegitimizing reality. Confuse enough people and you win. Why you spew lies nonstop. You know some of them will gain traction. It's despicable.
ReplyDeleteNietzsche, "Will to Power" 481 (1883-1888)
ReplyDeleteAgainst positivism, which halts at phenomena--"There are only facts"--I would say: No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact "in itself": perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing.
"Everything is subjective," you say; but even this is interpretation. The "subject" is not something given, it is something added and invented and projected behind what there is.--Finally, is it necessary to posit an interpreter behind the interpretation? Even this is invention, hypothesis.
In so far as the word "knowledge" has any meaning, the world is knowable; but it is interpretable otherwise, it has no meaning behind it, but countless meanings. --"Perspectivism."
It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all the other drives to accept as a norm.
Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage for that which he really knows.
ReplyDelete4 The error of imaginary causes. To begin with dreams: ex post facto, a cause is slipped under a particular sensation (for example, one following a far-off cannon shot)--often a whole little novel in which the dreamer turns up as the protagonist. The sensation endures meanwhile in a kind of resonance: it waits, as it were, until the causal instinct permits it to step into the foreground--now no longer as a chance occurrence, but as "meaning." The cannon shot appears in a causal mode, in an apparent reversal of time. What is really later, the motivation, is experienced first--often with a hundred details which pass like lightning and the shot follows. What has happened? The representations which were produced by a certain state have been misunderstood as its causes.
In fact, we do the same thing when awake. Most of our general feelings--every kind of inhibition, pressure, tension, and explosion in the play and counterplay of our organs, and particularly the state of the nervus sympaticus--excite our causal instinct: we want to have a reason for feeling this way or that--for feeling bad or for feeling good. We are never satisfied merely to state the fact that we feel this way or that: we admit this fact only--become conscious of it only--when we have furnished some kind of motivation. Memory, which swings into action in such cases, unknown to us, brings up earlier states of the same kind, together with the causal interpretations associated with them--not their real causes. The faith, to be sure, that such representations, such accompanying conscious processes are the causes is also brought forth by memory. Thus originates a habitual acceptance of a particular causal interpretation, which, as a matter of fact, inhibits any investigation into the real cause--even precludes it.
5 The psychological explanation of this. To derive something unknown from something familiar relieves, comforts, and satisfies, besides giving a feeling of power. With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. Since at bottom it is merely a matter of wishing to be rid of oppressive representations, one is not too particular about the means of getting rid of them: the first representation that explains the unknown as familiar feels so good that one "considers it true." The proof of pleasure ("of strength") as a criterion of truth.
The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause--a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving. That it is something already familiar, experienced, and inscribed in the memory, which is posited as a cause, that is the first consequence of this need. That which is new and strange and has not been experienced before, is excluded as a cause. Thus one searches not only for some kind of explanation to serve as a cause, but for a particularly selected and preferred kind of explanation--that which has most quickly and most frequently abolished the feeling of the strange, new, and hitherto unexperienced: the most habitual explanations. Consequence: one kind of positing of causes predominates more and more, is concentrated into a system and finally emerges as dominant, that is, as simply precluding other causes and explanations. The banker immediately thinks of "business," the Christian of "sin," and the girl of her love.
--Nietzsche, "Twilight of the Idols"
...the progressive liberal of racism...
ReplyDeletelol!
It isn't an "interpretation" to say an address with a typo is proof of voter fraud. Especially after you know the vacant lot isn't the address the voter provided.
ReplyDelete"There are only facts ... only interpretations" is how people like you justify believing anything they want. A recent example of this is the rise in hate crimes directed at Asian-Americans. Dotard told his low-IQ followers to blame China -- and by extension anyone who appears (to their bigoted minds) to be Asian.
ReplyDeleteThere ARE facts. Typos don't equal voter fraud. Dotard colluded with Russia. Asian people aren't responsible for the coronavirus. QAnon isn't an "interpretation" of facts. It's a cult that promulgates vile lies magamorons like. It attracts nutters like MTG. But you like her homophobia and transphobia, so proclaim your LOVE for her.
“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."
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So you didn't like the prominent use of a Nazi symbol at CPAC? I'm not buying it. The "GOP" remains the party of White Supremacy, something that should make you extremely happy. Though maybe what you object to is that it was TOO obvious?
ReplyDeleteAn image — as opposed to a symbol... illiterate, much?
ReplyDeleteps - I'd never even heard of an "odal rune" until today. You Lefties need to get out more.... what's next, seeing the SS Deathhead in Grateful Dead albums and cancelling their music? lol!
ReplyDeleteCPAC 2021 Open Display of Nazi Symbols. In 2016 the National Socialist Movement (NSM) of America, claimed to be "buoyed by a Donald Trump victory", and announced a shift in symbols they considered headline-worthy: …white supremacists ban swastika in bold attempt to go mainstream. The Odal rune, a less-well-known Nazi Germany symbol, will take the place of the swastika on all official uniforms and banners. Mr Schoep says it's a gentler approach to preaching the same messages. "The party leadership has every intention to bring the party, our leaders, our members and supporters into the halls of government here in the United States, and to do that we must reach more of the public".
ReplyDeleteWhite Supremacists in the American NAZI movement banned swastika's?
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteMore on the CPAC Display of NAZI Symbols hoax
ReplyDeleteThe stage at CPAC absolutely was a Nazi symbol. You say you prove it was a "hoax" by pointing a supposed "fact" that the stage was designed by an allegedly "liberal" firm. But I say "No, facts is precisely what there is not, only interpretations. We cannot establish any fact in itself. Perhaps it is folly to want to do such a thing".
ReplyDeleteMy interpretation? The republicans who ran CPAC hired the firm and approved the design. They got a Nazi symbol because that is what they wanted.
lol! Because NAZI symbols are the be all and end all... lol!
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