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Friday, January 25. 2019

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Time is always on the side of the persuader. If you give me enough time, and I repeat the same message often enough, I can sway 5 percent of any crowd to believe anything.


Scott Adams 




Posted by The Barrister in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 13:33 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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5% of the population at any given moment believe any number of absolutely crazy things. I like Adams, but I'm not sure what he's saying is correct in more than a trivial sense
#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2019-01-25 15:39 (Reply)
I'd say a lot more than 5% of the population believe crazy things! What percentage of the people believe in "gender fluidity", or that there's no a problem at the southern border, or that socialism is a good idea?
#1.1 mudbug on 2019-01-25 21:52 (Reply)
Isn't the point just 5% in the middle? Conservative/liberal each have their end of the teetertotter. It's the ones in the middle that determine the pain or gain for the ones at the ends in our fine republic.
#1.1.1 Jerry on 2019-01-25 22:53 (Reply)
If you believe there is ANY genetic or biological cause for sexual orientation - you just proved Adams right.

"Everybody knows" that gays are "born that way" despite the failure of repeated attempts to prove it - including large surveys of identical twins and homosexual gene-pool research in the 1990s. All of which came up with nada.

The LBGT lobby just went on repeating their Big Lie.
#2 Ben David on 2019-01-26 12:56 (Reply)
Either Scott Adams or I are starting to lose it.
Persuade me.
#3 u.k.(us) on 2019-01-26 14:34 (Reply)

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