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In reply to the discussion: Holy Fuck Me Harder! [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)First of all, lets get out of the way that with my link, I am 100% correct. I've proved that this has been talked about on DU before quite some time ago. In fact, this is raised regularly and I have mentioned it to Skinner at least once some time ago either in private mail or in Ask the Administrators.
Presenting a response as something to be discounted and ridiculed without providing any facts for why it should be discounted is an appeal to spite logical fallacy http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-spite.html and an indirect poisoning the well logical fallacy http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/poisoning-the-well.html i.e. what is implied is that anyone who points this out must be "one of THOSE people".
Warnings about US Intelligence agency agent provocateurs attempting to disrupt liberal and progressive organizations predate the world wide web and really got going with cointelpro, as my link indicates.