When you post unverified, unsourced speculation here at DU...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

64. But that's not the problem here.

In GD we can discuss opinion and punditry and explore beyond what goes beyond the printed word. And that's great and I love doing that.

I mean, if you go to Seth Abramson's Twitter feed--which gets posted a lot here--that's all that he does. He's not objectively reporting, but he's not pulling bullshit out of thin air, either, like a lot more sketchy accounts on Twitter do. He's hypothesizing and drawing connections between known facts, posting his sources in the process.

We should all do that. That's solid critical thinking.

What we shouldn't be doing is pulling off rampant speculation from the dark corners of the internets even though there's nothing to logical to support what's behind posted. No sources, no educated conclusions, just pure shot in the dark claims without any support whatsoever.

We can't do anything like that simply because you like what you read. That's the opposite of critical thinking. And that's the problem that's infected much of the right. But we can't go down that same road.