😛ġ - You don’t argue to convince your opposition. I object, sir, I have been saying this for over 20 years. }}} Well it’s now time to formally recognize Correia’s Law: They got the nomination list they wanted, it is all good. Interesting shift, right? One would think that if they cared about transparency they’d keep talking about it. They don’t think its a problem this year.

I voted for the one author I recognized, left the rest blank, and let the Dragon committee read between the lines on the future of their award if they keep going down this road.Īs for the internet arguing, one need only point out that the same people who previously decried the Dragons for lack of voting transparency are this year… not concerned about voting transparency. There’s no point having any sort of discussion about it. Notice that this year the nominations look the same as the Nebulas? Provocative lie, they’re pretending The Real Fans actually nominated that. Less work, more reward.Ĭase in point: Dragon Awards.

How to proceed? See provocative lie, respond with rhetorical punch in the face. Provocative lie, then watch the earnest Conservatives do all the work to refute it. From global warming to trans-rights, polar bears to pronouns, they always do the same thing.

This pattern is repeated in every single public “debate” in the Western World these days. What’s left? Presentation! Tell your audience about the dog. So what do you do? Go read the article and discover that by the author’s own tables a DOG in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a householder than an intruder. There are a couple hundred of these studies out there now. It’s a nothing-sandwich a whole lot of nothing slapped between two more pieces of nothing and printed in a friendly medical journal to make it look legit. The bottom line on this type of thing is that they just friggin’ lied. “A gun in the home is 43 times more likely to kill a householder than an intruder.”īeing a nerd, I looked it all up.

They simply spit out plausible-sounding bullshit and then expect you to waste your time refuting them. Having been through countless internet arguments about guns and gun control, having in self defense actually read ALL the medical gun control literature (I have still have boxes of photocopies from the 1990s when everything was hardcopy) I have learned one thing:

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