That’s the thing: You can’t unless you are already well-informed beforehand.

Yes, it is possible to spot common rhetorical deceptions such as whataboutisms or straw man arguments, but misinformation in general is impossible to debunk in real time unless it defies common sense such as “Immigrants are eating the pets of locals”.

A popular talking point here in Germany when the government was trying to push for installing heat pumps instead of gas or oil based heating solutions was, that installing a heat pump would entail massive renovation costs to make its use viable. This information is semi true because installing a pump in older buildings might indeed require renovations. But exposing this argument as a broad overgeneralization takes so much time and effort that it is impossible to do on the spot, unless you have prepared multiple examples of home configurations and the associated costs of installing a heat pump.

The whole idea behind Steve Bannon’s famous tactic of “flooding the zone” is to flood the discussion with so much misinformation it would take a disproportionately amount of time to debunk it all.

TBH I don’t bother with watching discussions anymore because of this.

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you’ve been doing essentially the exact same thing

No, you have been arguing that this is a case of police brutality simply off of the fact that the person was shot in the back. I have been arguing that this situation is not as black and white as you suggest due to various possible circumstances.

Your whole choice of words just shows, that you have already made up your mind despite, as you said yourself, not being there.

And the vast majority of people with pepper spray in their eyes […]

The vast majority of people tend to tense up when tazed. […]

You see a pattern there? I’m not sure whether I am comfortable with “in the vast majority of cases, I was not murderer by a guy charging at me with a knife”.

They literally shot the man in the back three times, but K.

And that implies what exactly? Could have been running away, maybe. Could have turned on someone else, also possible. We do not know. Which is the whole point of the investigation, which according to you is a close and shut case. For all we know, police could have used all of those things, and we just focus on the fact that he was killed in the end.

There are clear cases of police brutality and violations of citizen rights in Germany. A guy throwing tear gas and wielding a knife simply has a high probability of not being one of them.

Pepper Spray

I am not sure how pepper spray is supposed to stop someone from wildly slashing around.

Not have tazers?

Been many times proven to be unreliable: Highly depends on what the attacker is wearing or which mental state he is in.

But the cops decided to take the US approach of shoot first ask questions later.

Guess we should task you with the investigation, since you appear to know a lot more than the rest of us.

allegedly he threatened the officers with tear gas or a knife, but even he did, in no way is shooting someone justified in this situation.

Have to disagree with you here: If threatened with a stick, police have to pull out a bigger stick to do their job.

If a person starts a fist fight, the baton is the proper method to a) defend yourself and b) gain an advantage over the attacker. If the person then pulls a knife, the baton loses its advantage and a new tool is needed to regain it.

The issue in this case is not the choice of the tool for the job: Pulling the gun on someone attacking others with a knife. The issue is the attacker was shot in the back, which raises the question if he was still a threat.

Little fun fact: The vests regular police are wearing in Germany (at least in the southwest where I live) are bulletproof against small arms fire, but not stab proof. So “just tackle him and take it on the armour” is not an option.

What’s the thought in your head that pops up next to your feelings in such a situation?

Mine is usually something along the line of “So that’s it, huh? Doesn’t feel so great after all”.

Not everything that glitters is (Nazi) gold. /s

Germany here: I recently learned that a comparatively big local firm is planning to move their production to China. Some people never learn …

I remember that one documentary everyone at my school watched at least once during lessons: A bunch of animals in Africa getting drunk by eating fermenting fruit.

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Were only one instance exist or did I miss something?

“Either they are making this up as they go along, or the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing,” said Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, a nonpartisan conservation group.

Why not both? The end goal is to hand over federal land to Burgum and friends, so as long as that happens who cares about the details?

OK, I am going to try arguiung that privacy supersedes food:

To have a right to anything means there is something that I own. Owning something puts a division between me and others who can not own this specific thing: My right is my own, I do not have to diminish it by sharing. The most fundamental form of division is absence. Having a right to privacy is a right to the absence from others. Therefore the right to privacy is a more fundamental one than the right to food.

However, I agree that in practice eating in public beats dying in private any time of the day. 🤷

I fully support sending Taurus to Ukraine but I am afraid this might be one of Merz’ ‘Stammtischreden’ that he does frequently: Just blurb out whatever he thinks at the moment and sounds good while at the bar, but then decides otherwise once sobered up.

I see the point in my projects yet I am frustrated and depressed by my perceived lack of progress.

Want to start a project and procrastinate on it together?

Good point!

I am using PassAndroid

Most of the time these ‘Add to X Wallet’ buttons lead you to an .pkpass File which you can import. The app doesn’t look very nice but it does the job for me.

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My head canon is that creatures such as ghosts, demons, djinns, … enter our mortal realm willingly from time to time and sometimes form a connection with a person, who they then teach how to summon them in times of need. This knowledge is then passed down.

So effectively otherworldly creatures are tourists who gave a local their number and now they get bothered by their greatgreatgreatgreatgrandkids.

Ah, a person of class!