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Tetro Kornbluth
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« on: February 08, 2014, 05:16:11 PM »
« edited: February 08, 2014, 05:20:05 PM by Tetro Kornbluth »
I'm going to link to the fine Chris Dillow for this excellent blogpost. Nothing new here for those followers of my - and several other - posts. But it puts it perfectly - plz read neckbeards and 2016boarders.

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Ftr, Question Show is an inane late-night politics show in the UK where politicians and other similar worthies 'interact' with public questions via a (somewhat... selective) studio audience.
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2014, 05:28:02 PM »
'Proper politics, based upon rational inquiry about evidence and values'.

When has politics ever even remotely resembled this?
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Tetro Kornbluth
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2014, 05:34:27 PM »
Quote from: Cassius on February 08, 2014, 05:28:02 PM
'Proper politics, based upon rational inquiry about evidence and values'.

When has politics ever even remotely resembled this?

Ummm... that's his point.
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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2014, 05:40:08 PM »
Quote from: Tetro Kornbluth on February 08, 2014, 05:34:27 PM
Quote from: Cassius on February 08, 2014, 05:28:02 PM
'Proper politics, based upon rational inquiry about evidence and values'.

When has politics ever even remotely resembled this?

Ummm... that's his point.

Oh right... I see now. Meh, the comments section sent me down the wrong path entirely.
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