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In reply to the discussion: WAPO: Fact checks AOC statements on living and minimum wage [View all]BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)92. I posted my response to the OP not the person who listed it.
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Since she's now protected her twitter account, so we can't see the reference any more...
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#116
Facts are important. It serves no good purpose to exaggerate on these matters. It can be risky.
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#3
"...this tactic is typically used extensively by populist movements bent on taking down governments..."
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#44
One should either fact-check for themselves, or have their staff do things like this for them.
NurseJackie
Jan 2019
#57
Amazon warehouses are a high-pressure, mis-managed shitholes with 80-90% turnover rates in 1st month
TheBlackAdder
Jan 2019
#5
Who are they attack an awesome young Latina congresswoman by checking her facts?
Empowerer
Jan 2019
#10
they could be more honest about it, but that's hard when you're owned by Bezos, I imagine. All
JCanete
Jan 2019
#73
that's not my issue at all. I laid out my actual problems with the article. From you on those?
JCanete
Jan 2019
#131
then try harder. Plenty of things literally address issues in the article. But dismiss it if its
JCanete
Jan 2019
#142
and how is that at all relevant to the article's biases and micharacterizations? nt
JCanete
Jan 2019
#144
I addressed the WAPO article. What other article are we talking about? The OP is the WAPO
JCanete
Jan 2019
#150
Ah the fact check. Here is new information - there was a back and forth all day on Wednesday
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#151
ah, so you continue to avoid any point I've made. If my arguments are so bad, I'd prefer you
JCanete
Jan 2019
#156
I don't get at all why you won't engage the points I laid out. You made the claim that the WAPO
JCanete
Jan 2019
#159
Yeah, it's pretty obvious she meant "a living wage" in that statement.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2019
#38
Journalists holding politicians accountable for their statements is "riding herd" on them?
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#50
Objectively, this @GlennKesslerWP fact check from yesterday should simply be retracted.'
bigtree
Jan 2019
#60
Objectively, why should we take the opinion of a reporter from Intercept & YT, which are very biased
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#67
objectively, you should take those arguments into account and if you can, refute them.
JCanete
Jan 2019
#74
what? Of course companies like Amazon and Walmart are essentially stiffing the public. They get
JCanete
Jan 2019
#72
you want more? YOu said this article was a fact check. What is it fact-checking? Why did it
JCanete
Jan 2019
#90
oh you...here I thought you were posting cuz you cared about facts, not what they say they
JCanete
Jan 2019
#97
Here's a fact that often gets overlooked - about 30 states already have a minimum wage....
George II
Jan 2019
#102
We will have 15 we certainly do not now in California. its going to be a while still before it gets
JCanete
Jan 2019
#106
Yeah, but that wasn't the point of the OP. $15 wasn't part of the discussion at first...
George II
Jan 2019
#123
how would that make raising the federal minimum wage to 15 moot? it would only make it moot in like
JCanete
Jan 2019
#137
so, on average, raising the minimum wage, you would agree, is nowhere near moot, so why would that
JCanete
Jan 2019
#139
You posted it on a public forum and, thus, should expect comments from others
EffieBlack
Jan 2019
#91
Again... Since you are responding to WAPO, shouldn't you do it where they can actually
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#169
Those are not things she made statements about, so they weren't included in a fact check.
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#107
UPDATE: AOC apologizes for trying to discredit WAPO cite for the fact check. Sort of.
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#109
Apparently it was the most pressing political issue preoccupying some reps on the Hill this week
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#119
The FACTS noted in the original post (with the hot air link) are now exactly the same sans...
George II
Jan 2019
#124
Actually, whataboutism is when someone defends something by pointing to something else..
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#149
"Denzil has yet to reply" because Denzil had other things to do during the course of the day.
Denzil_DC
Jan 2019
#153
I did. They're irrelevant to my objection. Read my post above again. I didn't make "numerous posts".
Denzil_DC
Jan 2019
#181
Tweeting while angry doesn't lend itself to thoughtful, well researched rebuttals.
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#121
Usually, experience at the local level in politics allows you to make these kinds of
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#175
I guess you don't see many fact checking sites, or newspapers, or posts on DU...
ehrnst
Jan 2019
#185