old salt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 6:01 pmRight. Keep deluding yourself. Retailers are locking away their inventory because of flaming lies. Keep denying the obvious.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 12:16 pmSeriously? "fact checks" ???old salt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 12:05 pmThe National Review fact checks what they publish.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:35 amHang on, this cat has many, many times been proven to be a right wing charlatan. He's a super Trumpy election denier who has made a career of being a far right extremist under the guise of "research and statistics".old salt wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 10:02 am Lying with crime stats.https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/08/ ... l-mystery/
The Truth about the Crime Explosion
by JOHN R. LOTT JR., August 7, 2024
Misunderstanding what the crime statistics measure and hiding the rise in crime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lott
Pretty clear who is "lying" and it ain't Buttigieg nor the FBI.
I trust them on this, even if you don't like this author.
NR has a larger readership than you do.
It's an opinion piece, not journalism.
It's all this proven liar's opinion, not even necessarily the Editorial Board's opinion (though that's very suspect as well).
I love the "NR has a larger readership than you do."
Sure, but wikipedia has a way larger readership than does NR.
And that's a challenge system, way, way, way more likely to be "fact checked" than NR's opinion pieces.
It's always very revealing that partisans (on either side or extreme) refuse to bother to look at the history of someone pandering to their basest bigotries. When someone has a history of lying, especially with the veneer of "research and statistics", their credibility when citing such should be hugely diminished. But partisans and extremists (and fools) are willing to give credibility only to what reinforces their ignorant bigotries.
And this "author" has a history of flaming lies.
But hey, keep spreading such BS. It works on lots of people.
Carjackings & vehicle theft are not really happening. It's the car makers fault.
https://stateline.org/2024/02/09/car-th ... point-why/
Same for this...did you bother to read full article?