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> Just as the teamsters tried to ban cars to protect horse carriage drivers Is that true?

• Forgeties79 5mo ago
  No. Quite the opposite if these first search results I'm reading are any indicator.
• asdfasvea 5mo ago
  So a random poster makes an assertion and rather than Google it and verify it yourself you throw out a request for another random poster to concur? And that concurrence you will take at face value and then believe the original assertion?
  • wmeredith 5mo ago
    I think it's reasonable to request the person making the assertion to back it up. It's not on the audience to either only debunk or accept the assertion. It can just be rejected. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
    • DoneWithAllThat 5mo ago
      Why is an anodyne factual claim an “extraordinary claim”? What makes that particular claim extraordinary? They didn’t claim to have discovered perpetual motion or something you can’t prove or disprove yourself, just shared a historical fact you can easily just check up on if you choose not to believe them.
      • gruez 5mo ago
        >Why is an anodyne factual claim an “extraordinary claim”? What makes that particular claim extraordinary? FWIW I tried to get AI to substantiate it and came up empty. Maybe it's not as "extraordinary" as "Obama was a reptilian alien" or whatever, but for everything else what counts as "extraordinary" depends on your prejudices, I suppose. Regardless of whether it's "extraordinary" or not, it's definitely not common knowledge and needs to be substantiated rather than asserted without evidence.
  • criddell 5mo ago
    I did google it and couldn’t find anything backing up the claim.