[ExI] quotes for yanks in 2016

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 16:56:21 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:26 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> I as a libertarian oppose both mainstream candidates for opposite
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> what she has already done in contradiction to what she has said.
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> In 2016, Americans face a dilemma: the risk that one candidate is lying vs
> the risk the other is telling the truth.  The probability of both
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​I beg to differ.  You have stated a false dichotomy - both are telling the
truth and both are lying.  I think this is the certainty.

Now as to whose subset of lying is bigger, or whose subset of telling the
truth is bigger, then you can make a case.​


​Is it lying when you tell people what you want to accomplish when in fact
there is little hope of that actually occurring if you get elected?​  I say
no - it reveals your values, or at least the values you want the public to
think you have - which is demagoguery.  Now if you believe your own lies,
then you are loco (some would call this normal).  And you don't think that
you are lying.  "No, wait, it was only sarcasm."

​bill w​
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