Random Arguments & Strawmen #15

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alternate timeline Jesus

I now wanna write a story about an alternate timeline Jesus who is a Wall Street shark.

He kills himself to save the markets?

Jesus saves... and retires early with his sound financial decisions.

I now wanna write a story about an alternate timeline Jesus who is a Wall Street shark.

Still sounds like a more reasonable religion then Scientology.

I would have been shocked if they didn't name him person of the year.

Actually, reading this article, it's more about "the glory of Obama" and how "Trump is the new Hitler" than it is about writing a "Person of the Year" article.

Right or wrong or merely different viewpoints all don't really matter, because the division is real regardless and DJT is NOT the kind of person to bring people together on terms that are good for everyone involved.

I agree with this point, but there were very few candidates that fit this bill and none of them were in the primary election.

He kills himself to save the markets?

DJT is NOT the kind of person to bring people together

sure he is....so long as holding pens count as togetherness!

Well I mean.

Maybe he can bring people together in the North Korea sense of united misery.

I guess his voters hadn't considered that.

We already had 8 years of NK-sense of misery.

Enough of this already man, seriously.

I don't really know what your problem with Obama is but you take every chance you can to vilify a man who has been, by all accounts, one of the more morally upstanding presidents we've had. Like his policies or not, that's a different issue entirely.

He has never lead this nation, period. It's always somebody else's fault.

Media that focus on scandals and spread facts I don't like to smear politicians risk becoming like people who have a morbid fascination with excrement, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Wednesday.

Francis told the Belgian Catholic weekly "Tertio" that spreading disinformation was "probably the greatest damage that the media can do" and using communications for this rather than to educate the public amounted to a sin.

Using precise psychological terms, he said scandal-mongering media risked falling prey to coprophilia, or arousal from excrement, and consumers of these media risked coprophagia, or eating excrement.

The Argentine-born pontiff excused himself for using such terms in order to get his point across while answering a question about the correct use of the media.

"I think the media have to be very clear, very transparent, and not fall into - no offence intended - the sickness of coprophilia, that is, always wanting to cover scandals, covering nasty things, even if they are true," he said.

"And since people have a tendency towards the sickness of coprophagia, a lot of damage can be done."

That section of the interview, all of which was distributed to reporters in an Italian translation of the interview in the pope's native Spanish, contained some of the most blunt language the pontiff has ever used about the media.

He also spoke of the danger of using the media to slander political rivals.

"The means of communication have their own temptations, they can be tempted by slander, and therefore used to slander people, to smear them, this above all in the world of politics," he said. "They can be used as means of defamation..."

"No-one has a right to do this. It is a sin and it is hurtful," he said.

He described disinformation as the greatest harm the media can do because "it directs opinion in only one direction and omits the other part of the truth," he said.

The pope's comments on disinformation followed widespread debate in the United States over whether facts I don't like on the internet might have swayed voters toward Republican candidate Donald Trump.

(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

Pope warns media over 'sin' of spreading facts I don't like, smearing politicians

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Well that seems a little hypocritical for his organization's history, if not his personal actions.