The most deranged and bloodcurdling statement came, predictably, from White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Trump’s most openly fascistic aide, who claimed Thursday that Washington, D.C. “is more violent than Baghdad, it is more violent than parts of Ethiopia, and parts of many of the most dangerous places in the world.” The clear implication is that Washington, like Baghdad, should be the target of US military violence on a massive scale.
This is what you get with “evidence be damned” people
Just claim, no evidence required
Is there evidence against your claim? Just completely ignore it, act as if it doesn’t exist and ridicule those that remind you there is evidence, and you’re golden!
Quality of evidence matters, too. There was a study popped up on Lemmy yesterday and I looked at who paid for it and the methodology, and it was quite questionable, but people commenting acted like they’d put fingers in the nail wounds of the risen Christ. Confirmation bias is real.
One of the biggest, anyway. POTUS rightly recognized he has no friends or loyalty around him, only opportunists, and has done nothing to mitigate the threat. Not that competent advisors wouldn’t be opportunists, but they could at least somewhat salvage his presidential reputation.
This is what you get with “evidence be damned” people
Just claim, no evidence required
Is there evidence against your claim? Just completely ignore it, act as if it doesn’t exist and ridicule those that remind you there is evidence, and you’re golden!
Quality of evidence matters, too. There was a study popped up on Lemmy yesterday and I looked at who paid for it and the methodology, and it was quite questionable, but people commenting acted like they’d put fingers in the nail wounds of the risen Christ. Confirmation bias is real.
Miller IS the threat in DC
One of the biggest, anyway. POTUS rightly recognized he has no friends or loyalty around him, only opportunists, and has done nothing to mitigate the threat. Not that competent advisors wouldn’t be opportunists, but they could at least somewhat salvage his presidential reputation.
It could be true:
District of Columbia: 22.3 per 100,000 people
Iraq (not specifically the capital): 9.14 per 100,000 people
However St. Louis has a murder rate of 65 per 100,000 so the national guard should be starting there, not outside the president’s bedroom.