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Board Politics & Society
Re: The dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money
by
Dharmadog
on 27/04/2013, 17:43:40 UTC
So here, again, you've taken a perfect opportunity to imply you are smarter than the poster when in reality you are just more adept at the language.  Bully for you Myrkul, you are such a wonderful human being.  (read: piece of shit).

HA, I certainly didn't feel like he was trying to be smarter or bully me.  I just felt like he probably goggled a chunk of my post and found the ol' Texas Sharpshooter thingy.  I suppose I could then have posted all of the logical fallacy stuff but that'd seem like one-ups-man-ship.  Or I could have said that the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy is actually known as "The Clustering Illusion Fallacy" though I might look a bit egotistical myself then.  But my thing was more narrow than just throwing out a ton of data or predictions in order to get one to hit so I think that he was off the mark anyway and therefore inferior to me.  Or I could have shown other examples of my example...but that would have seemed defensive.  Ya, yer right.  That Myrkul guy was probably tryin' to look smarter.  Not hard to do, really.