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It’s lazy to just throw out whatever numbers off of Twitter from whatever random user and then say “prove it wrong.” How about proving it right before you post, especially if you’re going to say it’s fact?

I joined August 12, 2006. Has it really been 20 years? Wow, I'm old. HAHAHA...

Oh wait, there's Mila Joy again. So I guess the lady in the video is lying! LOL!

Why do you think this is?

Any news on this job, gonna be a chore to turn Hemphill around

I like to think about political discourse like being a member of a church. If you only go to Christmas, Easter, and/or the occasional Sunday service, the church seems very typical of the community. I’d say that’s akin to the typical voter experience who only votes every 4 years. Then, there’s the church member who is also a member of the steering and business committee of the church. This member sees the ugly underbelly of the church as a business. This can disillusion the member if they don’t remember the real reason they attend anyway. I’d say this is akin to the voter who is more informed, votes even in local elections, and participates in political discussions. Both members are valuable to the congregation. One is much easier to deal with, and causes no qualms for the most part. But, the church couldn’t function without the more involved member. There’s a need for a place to discuss politics, as unsettling as it may be sometimes. Many of the topics, I wouldn’t know anything about if it weren’t for this forum. This forum actually makes me investigate things. I become more informed, and whether I agree or not is irrelevant. That—to me—is a very big positive.

As I’ve stated before, I know for a fact that AI can get things wrong. I have asked it things before that I knew for a fact were true and it gave a different answer. So, you are right, you gotta watch it.

Not talking about the sports part of this website. In fact, it's what pays the bills around here and keeps the website free. If it were up to me........

AI still has too many issues right now. People who use it without back-checking are foolish. As an example, type in the below two questions EXACTLY as typed: How many illegal aliens in Texas 2025? How many undocumented immigrants in Texas 2025? We know the questions are asking about the exact same subset of the population. But, the AI answers—and sources—you receive will be quite different. AI isn’t smart enough to figure that out. It’s merely going on key words. Not really intelligence in my book. A big misnomer.

Reagan can make his own argument and IF they weren’t facts, simply dispute them with the real facts. There are several things that could depress me, but a sports forum (even being the best one ), ain’t one of them, lol.

No doubt AI has to be fed truth or it will cause confusion on social media. Elon Musk harps on the must of feeding AI truth.

Just a short clip which kinda explains what I was getting at. What is projected is a distraction. This is a huge reason why Kirk was assassinated. He was making an impression on college youth which is a huge voting base and countered their indoctrination.

But the person who created this thread claimed the data was factual. Reagan's reply to someone asking who was Mila Joy, "The one stating the facts!" So what you are saying is folks like Reagan post threads just to get discussion going, regardless if the subject of the thread is factual. Got it. Not sure why we need that kind of discussion here. I guess I should be used to Reagan flooding the forum with the opinion pieces from the right. This place is getting very depressing.

The thing that bothers me more than anything else lately, is the amount of posts obviously strictly using AI. I’ve researched quite a few of them, and they are coming from obviously biased source material. Makes sense since most media has a more liberal slant. I wish people wouldn’t just use AI generated answers, and think for themselves. AI seems to already be taking critical thinking out of the equation for many people.

I think most debates on this particular political forum are fairly robust. It’s a lot better than most places. Personally, I do a lot of data checking before I get too deep into discussion. Unless it’s something with which I have personal experience. Even then, if someone asks, I’ll try to provide data to support.

Truth can come from any source, as can misinformation. I think most posts are made for discussion, not necessarily to claim without a doubt they are 100% accurate. Back to my original point, the debate shouldn’t end just because someone doesn’t like the source.

Only if someone checked what she posted. I’m not sure the issue is a big surprise to people. The numbers may be off. But, the occurrences of misuse, overuse, and outright fraud are pretty well known. Her statement of “if all benefits were cut off, they would leave” is pure conjecture. Nothing wrong with that as her opinion. But, it is pure conjecture.

I was waiting to see how long it took for those who said they didn’t trust a single source—or the government—for data/information, to realize the X post was partially created using government data.

Since muslims chunk gays off of rooftops, I’d say it is somewhat of a surprise. That’s why I said it’s for show. Shades of things to come are covered by this type of gesture.

They could just as well hire me as the head of thoracic surgery at Harvard Medical School. A police officer would be well suited to be in charge of a prestigious position at a medical school. After all, I have been to about half a dozen classes on first aid. The Dems, right on schedule, are into box checking. And no, we absolutely shouldn’t be surprised.

Not much surprises me when it comes to democrats, but I gotta admit, this one did a little bit. I never expected New Yorkers to embrace government dependency so much as to vote someone like this in, and he was very honest upfront about his intentions.

NIL wasn't a thing when Joseph was at A&M that came later

I meant is it a big deal on who that guy hired? Should we be surprised?

That the largest city in the US elected a democratic socialist (communist) as their mayor is a very big deal. Soon we’re gonna see just how big. Remember all the dimwits that were surprised at the direction biden took the country, same folks will be shocked, once again.