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Politicization of JREF

Lonewulf said:
I never stated that he had never "participated in name calling".

Sometimes the target is what matters.

For instance, it's more acceptable to call Hitler a "disgusting pigsack", than it is for Mother Theresa.
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Oh, I don't know. I think it would've been quite acceptable for Mother Theresa to call Hitler a disgusting pigsack.

M.
 
T'ai Chi said:
I've saved each commentary (and before that the Randi Hotline) stuff as .txt files since 1992, and separated it by year.

If you can think of certain words to search for that would indicate talking about politics to a high degree (such as 'politics', 'President', 'Congress', etc.), I have a program that can count the number of occurances, and we could see the trends from 1992 to 2007 in the counts of those words.
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Hmm... And you did this, why?

M.
 
T'ai Chi said:
I wonder why you do find it curious and weird though why I find Randi's commentaries (which are put on the internet) interesting enough to save for a long time, especially one who is interested in skepticism and the movements' leaders.

Isn't a nice benefit of it that we can hope to answer queries like the one posed? Better than not exploring the question at all, like some would rather do..
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:dl:


You're a real card. :D

M.
 
Moochie said:
Oh, I don't know. I think it would've been quite acceptable for Mother Theresa to call Hitler a disgusting pigsack.

M.
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Damn, I knew someone was going to catch that grammatical error of mine.
 
SomeGuy said:
matches with the public opinion of the USA in my country (the Netherlands), I know from my many trips that most people in Europe (and Australia) feel pretty much the exact same way.

This was the full extent of the claim made by the person writing the letter, he didn't say America was: politically-moribund, violence-loving, NRA dominated, gun-happy, he said America was perceived as such in the rest of the "free world", which is something you may not like, which may not be fair, but is in fact true.
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I'd like to see some statistics before I accept that the assumption that "the rest of the free world" is a conglomerate whole in their opinions.

Y'know, because I'm skeptical and all.
 
Lonewulf said:
I'd like to see some statistics before I accept that the assumption that "the rest of the free world" is a conglomerate whole in their opinions.

Y'know, because I'm skeptical and all.
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Well, SomeGuy states that's an opinion in the Netherlands - I can agree with him and say that many of the people in Sweden thinks so too.

There, two countries down, the rest of the free world to go...

edit: Forgot to add: I have actually seen numbers of people's opinions about different countries but damn if I remember where. I'll get back if I find anything.
 
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Warge said:
Well, SomeGuy states that's an opinion in the Netherlands - I can agree with him and say that many of the people in Sweden thinks so too.

There, two countries down, the rest of the free world to go...

edit: Forgot to add: I have actually seen numbers of people's opinions about different countries but damn if I remember where. I'll get back if I find anything.
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The more I hear about Europe and their opinions, the less I look forward to visiting Germany in the summer.

Some posters on this forum have ensured that I want nothing at all to do with Denmark.

I'm tired of arrogance.
 
You should come to Australia then. We're becoming a real little America down here. Better hurry though, it may all change in a few months, God ($#!+!) willing.
 
Lonewulf said:
The more I hear about Europe and their opinions, the less I look forward to visiting Germany in the summer.

Some posters on this forum have ensured that I want nothing at all to do with Denmark.

I'm tired of arrogance.
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Thinking that Germany - or Denmark - is equivalent to Europe is the height of arrogance.

And ignorance.
 
"If you can think of certain words to search for that would indicate talking ..."

As soon as someone comes up with words they feel encapsulate 'talking about politics', I'd be more than happy to run my program and look at actual evidence.
 
T'ai Chi said:
"If you can think of certain words to search for that would indicate talking ..."

As soon as someone comes up with words they feel encapsulate 'talking about politics', I'd be more than happy to run my program and look at actual evidence.
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I did. Post #39.
 
I did. See #'s "I reject your belief that looking for the words you listed says anything about political content" and "my post was directed at Drysdale. You answered for him? Hmmm".
 
T'ai Chi said:
I did. See #'s "I reject your belief that looking for the words you listed says anything about political content" and "my post was directed at Drysdale. You answered for him? Hmmm".
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You said:

T'ai Chi said:
"If you can think of certain words to search for that would indicate talking ..."

As soon as someone comes up with words they feel encapsulate 'talking about politics', I'd be more than happy to run my program and look at actual evidence.
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I did come up with words I feel encapsulate 'talking about politics'.

Perhaps you want to amend your earlier statement, and tell us just exactly what it is we can look for?
 
It was already mentioned that I was replying to Drysdale. And your comments were discarded for obvious reasons. What about this is unclear?
 
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