**** Elections thread *****

[CoccoBill]

^Um no, there's just facts, and various degrees of bullshit. Alternative facts fall unequivocally in the latter.

[wufwugy]

^Um no, there's just facts, and various degrees of bullshit. Alternative facts fall unequivocally in the latter.

It's like what Rilla said. When you present a subset of facts, you're not presenting all the facts.

This is essentially what goes on when people argue past each other. There are sooooooooooo many relevant facts to each society-level issue. When people make a case, they pick the few they want to use the most. Then another person counters with alternative facts. Neither are presenting a full set of facts; instead theyre presenting a narrow subset of the whole.

This largely hinges on bad reporting. CNN took one fact and extrapolated it to the whole and made a judgment of the inauguration based on it. The counter came by taking different facts and extrapolating them to the whole. Both are wrong.