(05-26-2023, 01:43 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: One of my pet peeves is how the word "lie" is misused so frequently, not only on this forum, but everywhere.  To "lie" requires an intention to mislead.  You can disagree with someone's assertion, but call it something else please.  Mistruth, untruth, whatever.  Just because you disagree with it, doesn't make it a "lie".  And just because something may be untrue, doesn't make it a "lie".  It could just be untrue.

That's fair.  But I'm responding to L2L's insistence that I "swallow lies," that I'm gullible.  L2L may believe the untrue things he says, but that's not relevant to the question of if I'm gullible or not.  
Also, as Dominion Voting Systems proved, if members of the media knowingly lie, it is not very hard to prove that they did so.  So if L2L meant to say that numerous media outlets *knowingly* lie to me, well, where is the proof that they know better? Where are the personal text messages intimating such?  Those questions aren't necessarily for you.

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