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pa28

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8. The point of those fallacious pro-nafta arguments you read here is to delay just long enough.

Reply to brentspeak (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2015, 03:13 PM

May 2015

And by 'just long enough' I mean distract the discussion with false arguments and delay the appearance of a consensus until it's too late to stop.

Climate change deniers use the same tactic.

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