Does the author of the quoted tweet "have sex" with "blood relatives"? The answer is prolly "no" but the quotes make it not an unfair Q.https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/860505579407716353 …
You're equating asking legit oversight questions abt practice many have concerns about with incest. Congratulations. Governance=incest?
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No, I'm reducing your "'wiretapping' is in quotes" effort to the fatuous absurdity at its foundation (didn't take much reduction, tbh).
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Actually, you're mocking idea Congress should be able to oversee the warrantless access of US person comms. Congratulations.
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No. Again: I'm demonstrating how utterly stupid it is to pretend that putting horseshit between inverted commas alters its equine fecality.
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Oh. Did you click thru to the link?
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Yeah. I found nothing therein to suggest to me that putting a word between quotation marks bears on the meaning or truth value of the word.
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Ok. Well I said what I said bc I believe the warrantless access to US comms is a fair topic for oversight. You apparently think that's funny
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No, but I think it's bad to use fallacious reasoning in service of even the noblest goal. "X is in quotes" does not bear on X's veracity.
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Just another case in the epidemic of unwillingness to get beyond the wide-angle justness of a Cause to consider a specific line of reasoning
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