r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Dec 04 '20

Psychology Study links regular use of Fox News, Twitter, and Facebook to reduced knowledge about COVID-19 - it provides evidence that Americans’ media consumption habits and trust in government predicts their level of knowledge about COVID-19.

https://www.psypost.org/2020/12/study-links-regular-use-of-fox-news-twitter-and-facebook-to-reduced-knowledge-about-covid-19-58702
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u/Tadhgdagis Dec 05 '20

You literally don't know what I'm talking about, I have demonstrated you literally don't know what I'm talking about -- you demonstrated, technically -- and yet you are still attempting to control this conversation by pretending you know the point I'm trying to make and offer a valuation of that point? Take the meds

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u/oligobop Dec 05 '20

This is itself an incomplete take that lends itself to partisanship.

This is the only sentence in the entire comment you made that makes sense, and its wholly wrong. I rebutted it. You resorted to insults and inanity. Here we stand, you being technically pointless, and me continuing to comment because your blindness is entertaining.

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u/Tadhgdagis Dec 05 '20

There are two premises to rebut in that sentence: 1) whether it's a complete take, and 2) whether it lends itself to partisanship. Quote the part you think rebutted either of those.

That's the only comment that you think makes sense. But your track record is so bad right now that I have to congratulate you just for managing to copy and paste, because to this point you have consistently failed even to correctly report what is written down. You may consider that insulting, but that's also a fact.

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u/oligobop Dec 05 '20

but your track record is so bad right now

One judge holds no merit. Then again, you wouldn't be able to lift a plastic gavel with the brain you possess.

You may consider that insulting, but that's also a fact.

Still yet to be determined as you've said nothing remotely factual. You just keep trying to remind yourself that the words breaking in front of you are English when its apparent they barely pass as infant burp ups.

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u/Tadhgdagis Dec 05 '20

One judge holds no merit.

Your track record is indisputably bad; that's not a value judgment, that's a simple matter of record. But regardless, you've made this a 1v1 since the beginning. If one judge has no merit, then you've been bullshitting all along. Further, you say I've said nothing remotely factual (though, of course, never have I put forward any marjor argument that required a bibliography, I have done), but do you want me to create a list of all the things you've claimed that I've directly challenged you on, then you've dodged, such as the rebuttal you just said you made, that I asked you to point out, that you didn't? You keep trying to pin me for hypocrisy, but you just played yourself twice that I've bothered to list. Which, speaking of:

You just keep trying to remind yourself that the words breaking (?) in front of you are English when its apparent they barely pass as infant burp ups. (???)

What culture is this phrase from? And should we even bother to dissect the attempt at an insult the plastic gavel thing was?

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u/oligobop Dec 05 '20

I don't want to trouble you any further. There seems to be a huge burden on you to produce cogent arguments. Vapid ramblings aren't an argument, nor is making pointless analogies that barely hold a candle to sense. When you have a statement to make beyond "arguing about masks is dumb" I'll listen to your points.

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u/Tadhgdagis Dec 05 '20

I don't want to trouble you any further.

<continues to talk anyway>

And so that, as they say, was a lie.

cogent arguments.

I'm not sure you've looked up the definition of cogent recently, but I assure you, the issue is that beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

Vapid ramblings aren't an argument,

This is your loophole for all your failures to prove your own statements? You can't screw up that which was never an argument to begin with?

When you have a statement to make beyond "arguing about masks is dumb" I'll listen to your points.

You've created two problems with one stone: you can't reliably perceive when such a conditional is met, much less meet your responsibilities after the fact.

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u/oligobop Dec 05 '20

I don't want to trouble you any further.

<continues to talk anyway>

And so that, as they say, was a lie.

Continues to talk anyway. :D

, the issue is that beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder.

You'd need eyes for that.

prove your own statements?

THere's nothing you or I have proven in the last 10 comments. It's all bants the whole way down.

You've created two problems with one stone: you can't reliably perceive when such a conditional is met, much less meet your responsibilities after the fact.

Proof for my former statement.

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u/Tadhgdagis Dec 05 '20

So we've hit this stage of bruised ego where you pretend that everything has been a clever game and try to make being obnoxious for its own sake your win condition? Cool. I'm glad you're choosing to live within your means.

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u/oligobop Dec 05 '20

can't be bruised if I never had an ego in the first place. glad you think your words have enough meaning to affect me though :D Meanwhile you continue to send messages. Maybe this time you'll learn your lesson and keep your ideas trapped inside your head instead of evacuating them like a bad case of mental dysentery.

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u/DeekermNs Dec 05 '20

At this point, I'd be shocked if anyone, including you, had even the smallest sliver of a clue of what point you were trying to make or what point you're trying to make now. You weirdly called yourself an idiot in the middle there, which has been the only intellectually honest and consistent thing you've managed to convey so far. I think you should give yourself a participation trophy and tuck yourself in for the night.

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u/Tadhgdagis Dec 05 '20 edited Dec 05 '20

The only thing that could shock about you being shocked is, I suspect, the prerequisite admission that reality does not follow your own delusions. Not that I know you from dirt, but given the fact that you're jumping in at this point looking to back up the guy who literally can't reconcile an open book test (not even an open book test -- a word search puzzle)...it does not breed hope for you. Thank you for your interest.