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Comment by seethishat | Hacker News Reader

If I have not seen evidence for or against something, then I would not offer an opinion either. Sometimes, people speak confidently when they are ignorant of the context and the facts. That's not the right thing to do.

It's better not to say anything when you don't actually know what you are talking about.

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This is interesting when you run it up the abstraction ladder.

What if we take this perspective from “knowledge of news topic of the day” and apply it to “knowledge of the virtue of commenting on a topic”. Are you qualified to actually speak on that subject? Am I? Maybe best not to say anything, since I’m not sure.

They are actively attacking free speech right now with colleges, dem states are threatened if they don't follow MAGA doctrine, same with cities, Trump threatens law firms who worked against him in the past. People elected him to lower prices and have business friendly policies, not to wreck our reputation in the world and cause the next great depression. You should be looking for new news stories I think. They are constantly calling our elections as fake and full of fraud when in truth we have some of the most secure elections in the world.

Did you watch the TV on Jan 6? Did you hear Trump repeatedly lie about the election? Are you saying your eyes and ears were lying to you? What are you saying here - that unless you walk around the barn all four sides might not be red? You are not a perfect witness, you are reporting on the most obvious fact of the matter.

What does that have to do with anything? We're up to our neck in evidence.

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