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figured it out. Now there was also this viral video that went around that put together all the little bits of his speech in which he seemed to be slurring or searching for a word. If you see them all together it looks like he has a mental problem or he's just very old or it really does sell a picture of him having some problems. I would say that's misleading because you could probably do that sam…
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Now if you've been alive in this world for more than 10 freaking minutes and you've interacted with humans you know that the number of opinions at Charlottesville was probably closer to a thousand. Right I'm exaggerating but there were probably every flavor of opinion there. There were people who were complete racists but don't you know there were some people who were not racist who would never date somebody of a specific other ethnicity. Well sort of racist. But are those the same? Well you could argue that are the same or different but my point is there was probably every opinion that you could possibly imagine. If there are enough people you're gonna have every freaking opinion. And I would say that's one thing that you could bet on and win every time.
Now was this the one time the hundreds of people showed up in the same physical geography, is this the one time in the history of the world that they only brought two opinions with them? Pro-racism anti-racism? No not, there's no chance of that. So the idea that people came for the same reason or the same understanding or even that they looked at the same flyer and had the same interpretation of what was going on. Some people looked at it and said oh it's organized by racists. I guess I'm a racist so I'll go. I'm sure people said that. Don't you think that other people guaranteed because there were a lot of people who were talking about it and of all the hundreds of thousands of people who saw the flyer on social media don't you think there were any who said oh it's a thing about Unite the Right. It's about statues. It looks like some Nazis will be there but why do I care? There are gonna be a lot of people there. You know there are gonna be people on both sides. You know there's gonna be people with every opinion but this flyer is telling me that definitely some of them are Nazis. I don't think it's a Nazi event. I just like the racists are showing up because why wouldn't they? It's you know this is right in their sweet spot the statue controversy.
So could you show any flyer to a hundred people and have them all come down on the same opinion given that the flyer was not, it didn't say hey we're racists. It just listed speakers and had images and some statutes. Do you think you could get a hundred people to look at that flyer and have the same opinion? Now not in any world that you've ever lived in can you get a hundred people to have the same opinion about anything.
So the president's assumption that could have been right or wrong and it doesn't matter because he stated his assumption. His assumption was that there were people there just about the statue. And then he talked about you know his belief based on the assumption. The worst case scenario is that the president assumed there were multiple opinions and it's the first time in human history that's ever not been true. That's the worst thing that you could say about this is that the president made the most common assumption you could make that there were a lot of different opinions there and it was the one time in human history it wasn't true. And there's no reporting on whether it was true. We can't know what everybody was thinking.
So anyway I put together these thoughts debunking every part of the hoax funnel so that you can use the same structure to drive people down the funnel. The fun is watching people go down the funnel so consistently because the direction they take always ends up with, and then I think Chris Cuomo will end up with the final weakest question which was oh why did the people who showed up not leave immediately if there were any fine people who showed up once they saw what was happening why didn't they leave immediately?
Now that's a question not a statement and it's a question based on ignorance and it's a question based on lack of imagination. The fact that Chris Cuomo doesn't know any possible reasons why that could be true doesn't tell you anything. It tells you that Chris Cuomo is ignorant. And I don't mean that as an insult. I mean
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ignorant in the sense that we're all ignorant about something. You know that everybody has something they don't know. I mean that's just normal texture in the world. So I'm not calling Chris Cuomo dumb. I'm saying that his question is a legitimate question meaning he doesn't know. So the fact that he doesn't know the answer to a question doesn't tell you anything about what happened. It just tells…
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