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Here is another statement which you can characterize as "people who don't agree with me are part of a vast conspiracy." > Republicans have been making concerte
by bloaf 7y ago
Here is another statement which you can characterize as "people who don't agree with me are part of a vast conspiracy."
> Republicans have been making concerted efforts to stack US courts with conservative judges.
Accusing someone of promoting a conspiracy theory is to accuse someone of making creating an unfalsifiable story, which does not seem to be the case in either my example statement or the original post. Specifically, there are no claims that "evidence to the contrary is fabricated" or "lack of key evidence is due to deliberate suppression." Now it may be the case that the author would respond in this way when presented with contrary evidence, or when pressed for some key supporting evidence, but as it stands there is no cause to levy the "mere conspiracy theory" charge at the author.
- K2L8M11N2 7y agohttps://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-call-it-conspiracy/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/14/too-many-people-dare-c...
- paganel 7y agoI’m not an American so I’m not directly involved in the US political process, but my question is why shouldn’t US Republicans appoint conservative judges? Why is this seen as a conspiracy? Isn’t this the reason why they were elected? Should they appoint liberal judges? But then what type of judges should the Democrats appoint? And in today’s political climate it doesn’t look like there’s truly a “neutral” judge, so to speak, one is either liberal or conservative.