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Cont: Corona Virus Conspiracy Theories Part IV

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Childlike Empress said:
Here you go (I was wrong that it isn't on youtube):


And now?
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Thank you for that.

Your description of what happens in the video is pretty accurate, i'd say. I would query your claim that they 'show some kind of identity paper', I don't think that is clear at all (indeed, the second person doesn't appear to show the police anything at all), and they were behind the police line for a matter of seconds, rather than minutes (but that's a minor nit-pick).

I'm not sure that I'd be confident in claiming this as proof that these were agents provocateur, but it's certainly not impossible.

Again, thank you for finding the video.
 
junkshop said:
Thank you for that.

Your description of what happens in the video is pretty accurate, i'd say. I would query your claim that they 'show some kind of identity paper', I don't think that is clear at all (indeed, the second person doesn't appear to show the police anything at all), and they were behind the police line for a matter of seconds, rather than minutes (but that's a minor nit-pick).

I'm not sure that I'd be confident in claiming this as proof that these were agents provocateur, but it's certainly not impossible.

Again, thank you for finding the video.
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Yes, it was only seconds, my fault, but you can see one of the guys stuff something into his pocket after they came out again. There were also only seconds from them getting pepper-sprayed, to showing something that isn't clearly visible because of the tree, to being allowed behind police lines.
 
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Childlike Empress said:
You could look it up, verbatim literally means "word for word". Sometimes used by not-the-masses in the meaning of "frank" or "black on white".
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If anyone (and I'm unsure who you mean by 'not-the-masses') is using verbatim as per the highlighted, then they're using it wrong.

I don't recall coming across it being used that way, but YMMV. Regardless, it would be wrong, and could would lead to misunderstandings.
 
junkshop said:
If anyone (and I'm unsure who you mean by 'not-the-masses') is using verbatim as per the highlighted, then they're using it wrong.

I don't recall coming across it being used that way, but YMMV. Regardless, it would be wrong, and could would lead to misunderstandings.
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Well, I've just evidenced to you that people are using it that way. And it isn't wrong, it just isn't common in your cultural circle, while it is in mine.

I remember I once used the word "multiplicator" for what we now know as "influencer", and got a lot of ridicule for that, but it wasn't wrong. It just was used in the wrong context. And it is still used in my cultural context.
 
Steve said:
Interesting that you chose that one word to explain.
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Which other words do you have problems with? "Fuellmich" is the name of the guy heading the jury. "pussied out" means not being able to face it anymore. "is" is a bigger problem you could ask the late Robert Anton Wilson (pbuh) about.

Anything I've not explained and you have problems to understand?
 
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junkshop said:
[Francis Urquhart gives the camera a sideways glance and raises an eyebrow]
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MagrittePipe.jpg


;)
 
junkshop said:
No, you told me they are. Well, you told Steve that they are. Either way nothing was 'evidenced'.
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My post was evidence that people use it that way. There is no "they", there is me. Your dictionaries show the use in your cultural context and I already conceded this point. I wasn't "wrong", but I was in the wrong cultural context to use it that way.

What word you think "Steve" didn't understand?

Actually, spare me the answer. I would be more interested in your answer to the claim that the two thugs stuffed something into their pockets (yes it was only one of them with one pocket). But I actually think we've settled that already.
 
Petra said:
Criticism needs to include actual content. Criticism does not just consist of deriding something because someone you don't like endorses it or simply expressing an opinion. Criticism involves rigour, it means taking what is put forward and saying why there's something wrong with it.
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You're posting in the CT subforum because you have nothing to say with any resemblance or relevance to competent science. I don't owe you any kind of song and dance. Your claims are unevidenced nonsense that you rebleat from scammers, crackpots, and propagandists. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to do much better.
 
junkshop said:
Huh? Sorry, that one went right over my head.
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It's a famous painting by Rene Magritte which actually in spirit says "the map is not the territory" (that's why it came to my mind) because it shows a pipe, while it actually isn't a pipe. In this case it's a sorry digital picture of a painting hosted by wikipedia, not a pipe. The words say "This is not a pipe" in French.
 
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