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I disagree that this is a political opinion. I think this is one party (Acosta) challenging the other (the government employee) on objective fact, as per Acosta
by komali2 8y ago
I disagree that this is a political opinion. I think this is one party (Acosta) challenging the other (the government employee) on objective fact, as per Acosta's job description.
>“If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fking window and find out which is true.”
https://www.google.com/search?q=invasion https://www.google.com/search?q=invasion :
> an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.
There are other definitions of "invasion" that can be applied, but why choose the word "invasion" when there are more accurate ones to choose that don't have the negative connotations? It is a bad faith use of the word "invasion" by the government to describe anything other than an actual armed invasion. How should they describe Russian troops landing on US soil if they've already used up the word "invasion" to describe impoverished asylum-seekers?
>he's directly calling the President a liar.
The president is a liar. He lies all the time. I'm glad the auditors are pushing my employee on this. He's lying about what he's using my money for and that infuriates me.
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/ https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statem...
- jki275 8y agoAgain, you're missing the point. He's taking a political position, not being a journalist. It's not an objective fact as a significant portion of the US disagrees with you and Mr. Acosta. It's a matter of political discussion and has been for a while.
- komali2 8y agoI disagree, and have yet to be convinced it's an opinion instead of fact.
- jki275 8y agoit's a characterization. It's a colloquialism. You can argue that all day long, but calling it an "invasion" (which I don't really agree with btw), is a subjective statement based in opinion. The fact is that there are a lot of people travelling up through Mexico to the US border. How you characterize that is an opinion.