The breakdown in critical thinking that gave us'
"Have you noticed these so called victims never have a social media account?"
gets a mention. This was a defense to the everything is a hoax philosophy that pervades all conspiracy speech. I'm sure they do. It takes some time for a terrorism victim to get the family or friends to remember that poor dead little Annie doesn't get Facebook messages because not everyone knows she was blown up by car bomb. And the opposite side is more nuts. Little Annie just died, and she's supposed to come back from the grave and Tweet, "Hi! Got blown up by a car bomb! Doing ok, but it's kinda cold here."
No, the actual winner is supposed to be something from science or math or such. So this month it's economics/politics.
"The U.S. is a communist state because everything is taxed by the government."
I hardly think taxation is son kind of qualifier for communism. There are nine or ten countries/sovereignties that don't have taxation. I'll check again later. It's something like Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Bahrain and a bunch in the Middle East that don't have taxes. That's it. By your logic every other country is at least partially communist. And "everything" is one of those powerful words that often negate any logical argument. Do they really know that you paid your next door neighbor $5 to cut your front lawn? Is volunteering at the local library putting books away taxed? Really? Everything?
And then we have the whole economic and political debate about communist states owning everything and essential taxing themselves. Too weird for me. I'm not touching it.
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