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Your comment reminds me of a quote from the movie Charlie Wilson's War: "Well if anyone asks what the hell I'm doing on the ethics committee we'll just tell th

Your comment reminds me of a quote from the movie Charlie Wilson's War: "Well if anyone asks what the hell I'm doing on the ethics committee we'll just tell them I like chasing women and drinking whisky and the Speaker felt we were underrepresented." In other words, even people who like to party deserve representation in government. And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates from both Georgetown Prep and Boston College have confirmed his definition: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/georgetown-prep-devils-triangle/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/georgetown-prep-devi...

preommr 4y ago
> And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates have confirmed his definition: I am not going to debate this. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that anything can be debated, and with so many moving parts here, it's very easy to muddy the waters. As an example, you linked an article where you chose to highlight friends of kavanaugh, impartial members, backing his claims and ignoring that others such as his roomate disagreed with those claims.
- leereeves 4y ago
  If Kavanaugh is telling the truth, and "devil's triangle" is a drinking game his friends invented, who but his friends would know about it? Of course you're free to believe whatever you want, but if you aren't willing to discuss it, why did you even bring it up here?
hotpotamus 4y ago
Here's the other thing I don't really get about these conservative types though. To a man, they claim that their Christian faith is extremely important to them. Like any good Catholic child, I was compelled to study the bible and while I took very little interest in it, my impression was that that sort of behavior was considered sinful and something one should seek to avoid and atone for if you should engage in sins involving bed and bottle. Things like this are why I've been an atheist from a single-digit age; I don't know much about the divine, but it doesn't seem like the people who claim to believe this stuff actually believe it either.

preommr 4y ago

> And as for lying about "devil's triangle", apparently several classmates have confirmed his definition: I am not going to debate this. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that anything can be debated, and with so many moving parts here, it's very easy to muddy the waters. As an example, you linked an article where you chose to highlight friends of kavanaugh, impartial members, backing his claims and ignoring that others such as his roomate disagreed with those claims.

leereeves 4y ago
If Kavanaugh is telling the truth, and "devil's triangle" is a drinking game his friends invented, who but his friends would know about it? Of course you're free to believe whatever you want, but if you aren't willing to discuss it, why did you even bring it up here?

hotpotamus 4y ago

Here's the other thing I don't really get about these conservative types though. To a man, they claim that their Christian faith is extremely important to them. Like any good Catholic child, I was compelled to study the bible and while I took very little interest in it, my impression was that that sort of behavior was considered sinful and something one should seek to avoid and atone for if you should engage in sins involving bed and bottle. Things like this are why I've been an atheist from a single-digit age; I don't know much about the divine, but it doesn't seem like the people who claim to believe this stuff actually believe it either.