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Javaman

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1. It impossible to argue with any conspiracy theory nut...

Reply to pampango (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2012, 08:57 AM

Oct 2012

they have an answer for everything and anytime you contradict them or point them to facts destroying their argument, they pull out the old tired canard of "Of course those numbers were cooked by someone working for the government!"

It's like arguing with 3 year olds.

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NYT: To live and seethe in that world of conspiracy theories means rejecting any form of objective [View all] pampango Oct 2012 OP

It impossible to argue with any conspiracy theory nut... Javaman Oct 2012 #1

The most frustrating thing is that Counter evidence becomes evidence el_bryanto Oct 2012 #2

Also, the conspiracy theories build on themselves gollygee Oct 2012 #3

I'm amazed that was published in the NY Times. sinkingfeeling Oct 2012 #4

Of course, birthers/teabaggers are not. To them the NYT is the epitome of the dreaded LIBERAL MEDIA. pampango Oct 2012 #6

Entirely separate from this dust up, the unemployment numbers ARE obviously cooked. Romulox Oct 2012 #5