Prickly City by Scott Stantis for August 02, 2023

oranges defense team is reading this!

The fact is that Republicans weaponize and LIE about every issue, including issues they make up — specifically to weaponize and LIE about.

Just because someone believes their “fact” does not make it true. Many of those have already found their “facts” have led to convictions and prison sentences. Many others are yet to find out, but it’s coming.

People used to believe in the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Norse gods. Does their belief make them facts?

If so, can we consider Judeo-Christian beliefs as the same level of fact?

Those never were facts, no matter who believed it. Truth exists & is not relative. Perceptions shift.

People haven’t believed the earth was flat since at least 200 BC.

Geocentrism wasn’t a fact, but it was a legitimate scientific model that facts could be built on and that could be used to make accurate predictions. That’s not the same thing.

Part of our problem is the failure to understand the difference between a [so-called] fact and truth. It was a ‘fact’ back when… that the sun & planets revolved around the earth, until it was discovered that the ‘fact’ was not…, however, the truth always was and still is that the earth & planets orbit the sun. Truth is truth; it never changes. Our fundamental problem is that we do not know the Author of Truth.

Neither were ‘facts’ as they were just suppositions. Once people actually observed (or had the tools to observe), the now had facts.

Fact: Pi ≠ 3. Complain all you like, but Pi always = 3 + a bit more. It’s not tidy, but it works.

Ah, but there is a difference between a ‘physical’ fact and a ‘belief’ fact.

People thought the Earth was flat back then because that’s what the science of the time proved. But science is always unlocking new truths, Winslow. You can’t stay on something discredited just because you don’t like the new discovery. That’s not how science and facts work.

I know that the “facts” taught me about the atom have been disproved. The atom was the smallest particle until it wasn’t. Now we think the smallest are subatomic particles. There are a lot of theories accepted as facts until proven right or wrong. big bang theory, string theory,

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People believed the earth was round since… what? The ancient Greeks?

No, it’s not a good point. Those were not facts; they were ignorance. The people then that believed the earth was flat we disproven quickly as ships discovered that it was not. Most people understood then that it was not flat, and didn’t think about it again. And, we did, in fact, go to the moon, and the Holocaust did happen. There are no “alternative” facts; in the face of a facts, they are simply denying them.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

~Bertrand Russell

Shouldn’t their word balloons be switched?

When a person helps or “gives assistance” to a person who’s committing a crime, that person may be committing a crime known as aiding and abetting. Shouldn’t they start arresting people giving money to Trump.