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Ionesco Rhinoceros
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Please clarify. Which person? AFAIK Khamenei himself is alive and well. Though I wouldn't disagree with your overall appraisal
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They don't look as if their morale is very high. A lot of them must be wondering, is this what we signed up for?
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Irony is dead
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That's three minutes each, without any breaks. I don't believe it
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You are too kind
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Indeed. Myself, I use quotation marks to avoid muddling what they say with what I mean
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Of course you are right, but one small detail. I think that Cillizza is an independent blogger now, not part of corporate media as such
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You are too kind to BBC. They either don’t know or don’t care about the difference between skepticism and denialism.
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On the merits, we are on the same side. And I now see that actually it is the BBC, not you, that is guilty of serious both-sidesism by its use of words.
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Note in passing that the president of the female college was a man
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When there's nothing really to be sceptical about, "skepticism" is the language of both-sidesism. Thus Bishop Wilberforce was a sceptic about evolution, but anyone repeating his arguments today would not be a sceptic, but a denialist. And as for climate change (or, as here, vaccine) "sceptics"…
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Oops! Should have checked
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So maybe not, then