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To: Lonely Bull

There you go again. Enabling those who should learn to read and think for themselves by telling them what to think.

The only way a person learns to think about what they read is to suffer the consequences of misreading it.

If we do it your way everyone gets a trophy and their noses wiped.

But you feel good doing that so I guess that’s all that matters.


57 posted on 08/29/2017 10:05:44 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Tyranny can hide within decorum.)
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To: Rebelbase
Enabling those who should learn to read and think for themselves by telling them what to think.

There are other reasons for the site policy, as I've said before. I have yet to be convinced that unmarked satire is somehow "educational" or that this site should be part of that alleged mission.

60 posted on 08/29/2017 10:25:41 PM PDT by Lonely Bull ("When he is being rude or mean it drives people _away_ from his confession and _towards_ yours.")
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To: Rebelbase
There you go again. Enabling those who should learn to read and think for themselves by telling them what to think. The only way a person learns to think about what they read is to suffer the consequences of misreading it.

I guess you haven't received a ton of e-mail over the years from well-intentioned friends and family passing on various news stories that were suspect or clearly bogus. Meanwhile, the dopey thing had been countlessly forwarded to a large number of people, as evidenced by the many addresses in the previous 'To' fields. Obviously, to forward it to friends and family members like this they must have actually believed the stupid story themselves.

61 posted on 08/29/2017 10:32:37 PM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: Rebelbase

Anybody who needs to have satire explicitly identified to them...especially as obvious as this one....probably shouldn’t be here.

And yet, sure enough, the article has been tagged as satire.

Geezis....


80 posted on 08/30/2017 5:56:09 AM PDT by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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