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• math 23 Feb 2017 4:07 UTC

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  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: [Er­ror com­mu­ni­cat­ing with LW2 server]

  DONALD TRUMP is our first post-truth president. And he may well be the first of many.

  (..)

  Trump’s political methods ultimately rely on the appeal to emotions, such as fear and anxiety,

  Trump is by no means the first president to appeal to fear and anxiety. (Note, emotions aren’t necessarily irrational, and in this case they certainly aren’t).

  and to personal beliefs over objective truth. Moreover, his victory was secured with blatant lies and misleading rhetoric, along with a doubling down on deceptions when called on them.

  No his victory was secured by telling the truth in the face of media lies, and refusing to back down under media pressure.

  Glenn Kessler’s highly reputable “Fact Checker” column in the Washington Post evaluated statements made by Trump during the campaign and assigned 64 percent of them with “Four Pinocchios” (the worst rating). By contrast, statements by other politicians get Four Pinocchios 10 to 20 percent of the time.

  Glenn Kessler’s “Fact Checker” column isn’t “highly reputable, in fact it has been caught multiple times engaging in manipulations ranging from intentionally misunderstanding what Trump said, e.g., taking obvious metaphors literally, to outright lying.

  I could go on to further paragraphs, but you get the idea.

• math 22 Feb 2017 22:41 UTC

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  in reply to: ChristianKl’s comment on: [Er­ror com­mu­ni­cat­ing with LW2 server]

  I wonder if the OP is meant to be a subtle form of satire. An article ostensibly about the importance of truth in politics that appears to contain an average of one lie per sentence.