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I... I... I have no words.
Things like this are why I'm glad I don't follow politics whatsoever.
Um... Twilight Sparkle might be a good friend and researcher, but have we ever seen any evidence of how good she is as a ruler? Her initial appearance at the Rainbow Falls Swap Meet doesn't fill me with confidence...
Prime examples of why I hate all politicians. It just so happens that I hate Republicans less so I end up voting for them most of the time.
WHAT THE FLIP FLYING FUCK
4101362 I'm with you on this, that is just ridiculous
And Twilight Sparkle quickly responded with a denunciation.
4101383 Go Tara! There is a reason why we love ya so much.
Plagiarism is magic.
Even out of context, the quote doesn't seem similar to the one he's comparing it to. In context... let's just not go into which scene it was taken from. Though it does tell a lot about these people, doesn't it?
And it's not even like the context was the same: the (purported) limits of what you can achieve in reality being defined only by your dreams (and willingness to work for them) is not the same thing as ... um ... being able to do the things you can do in a dream, while still in a dream.
It's just not the same message, and their whole point was that she was riffing on a common idea with common words. Ugh.
I don't have a link available, but you may also be interested to know that in one of the latest comic issues Applejack does a Donald Trump impression.
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Slightly better than the Chewbacca Defense, but only because it involves ponies.
Well, Equestria did summon a magical wall to expel all Changelings from their borders.
At first I was thinking they were talking out of their ass, but I do remember hearing Twi say this in the episode "Do Princesses Dream of Magical Sheep." In reference to being inside of a shared dream and turning into money-spewing store owner defeating an enemy made out of someone's imagination by throwing money at it until it goes away. There are literally no words.
4101367 I don't think you read the links at all. The RNC staffer who was defending the plagiarism in Melania Trump's speech cited examples of "common phrases" such as Twilight's "you can do anything in a dream" line from the Tantabus episode. That's really pretty much all that happened.
And with that third article, they have satisfied Godwin. Because that was entirely germane to the conversation.
Also, this suggests that the Trump campaign is actually a lucid dream. The question now is whose.
Is this from The Onion? I can't tell any more.
We live in an age where real-world insanity has surpassed anything The Onion's writers could come up with. Which is why The Onion isn't funny any more, but that is perhaps another topic for another day.
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Donald Trump, Diamond Tiara. Coincidence?
Quote mining to defend plagiarism. Amazing. Every English teacher past, present, and future, has either succumb to spontaneous combustion or self-immolation, if the former wasn't working fast enough.
4101455 lol. That last one. All I have to say is, Trump is an absolute asshole.... But he's an honest asshole.
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But did they (somehow) force the changelings to pay for it?
I wonder if crediting a character for a line within an episode is basically the same as crediting the writers of that episode. What I'm getting at is if Scott, Jayson, and/or Jim should be facepalming or something.
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He really, really isn't.
So far, this blog post has cost me:
* Followers: -0
* Patreon sponsors: -0
So at least in the very early polling, the eye rolls are universal.
4101491 So you're telling me he HAS lied about everything that would make him look bad? ...PFFT. Yeah, because racist and xenophobic comments SURE make him look like a saint don't they? LOL. Bugger off.
4101491 I looked through the first 20 of the ones that are "false" and found 11 that CAN'T be considered False, because they either were unsolved cases, or they were speculation. People, don't use politifact. It's shit.
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I didn't say he was deploying his falsehoods very carefully or strategically, just that he sure does make a lot of claims that have no connection to reality.
ETA: I looked at the list of rated-false claims and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
4101520 I repeat, I looked through the first 20 of the ones that are "false" and found 11 that CAN'T be considered False, because they either were unsolved cases, or they were speculation. People, don't use politifact. It's shit.
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I looked myself and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. But even if we accept that logic, if Trump claims he knows something that, in your words, he can't possibly know because unsolved or speculation, that's somehow not false because...?
4101528 It's not false, because it's a Schrodingers Cat scenario. NOBODY knows if it's true or false. That's what speculation is. Making a theory/headcanon. Some people end up believing their headcanons, however. That's not LYING, it's something convincing themselves of something that isn't correct. That's how you fool a lie detector. You BELIEVE what you're saying....actually now I'm worried that Trump would be able to fool a lie detector test.
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...That is not what fact checking is about. Fact checkers are not metaphysical philosophers charged with finding a way to prove a negative. Fact checkers investigate a claim to see if it can be verified by the facts. If it can't, they rate it false.
You know, I'm pretty sure Twilight Sparkle would sooner come up with a justification for murdering someone than for plagiarism.
4101500 You have to give the guy credit, he's managed to make everyone mad.
All I've got to say is if Trump's wife is getting this kind of heat from using pieces of the same rote boilerplate 'My husband is going to be a great president' speech, tens of thousands of commencement speakers should by all rights burst into flames all over the country.
Edit: Really, I'm not confused at all the way the press and the dems are focusing on this. Rudy Giuliani gave one *heck* of a speech last night, and if they didn't have this, they might have to talk about it.
I'm still waiting for Andy Kaufman to jump out from behind the curtains.
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He's a uniter!
UM. SHOULD I BE GREATLY CONCERNED?
I'm trying to decide if I should laugh or cry.
I'm honestly lost here.
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That's an excellent question! My two top guesses:
1) Princess Celetia's worst nightmare ever, or
2) Flim and Flam's synchronized best dream ever!
Oh.
So they're just citing common phrasing as an excuse.
That's much more believable.
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You mean he honestly doesn't know he's lying through his teeth? I guess he could always claim the ignorance defense. And I do admit it's even quite plausible in his case.
Do you ever wonder whether the world actually did end in 2012, and this is all just one last fever dream before the Mayan gods melt us into sacrificial smoothies?
You know, last night, I made a post about this, and tagged it not pony related.
I was premature in that.
Clearly it is time for us to note to the Trump campaign that Equestria is very welcome of immigrants, even though they have occasional terrorist attacks like the Green Wedding and Discord Day. They also struggle with internal radicalization of ponies like Starlight Glimmer and Nightmare Moon.
You have to face up to the truth: MLP promotes conservative values and is bastion of Christian morality.
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Not even the magic of friendship could make that happen.
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I was actually thinking the same thing! What can any political spouse say in public? They can say my spouse is a nice person and has aspirations for the future and is trying to be a good parent etc. In this case, Trump's wife actually did the smart thing and checked up on the speeches of previous people in the same circumstances. She should have been more careful about word choices, but she is neither a politician nor is she a speech writer. The people who didn't do their job in this case, were Trumps own campaign organization: someone there definitely screwed up, or to be fair, might have been overruled by Trump or members of his family. In either case, it just shows the shoddy organizational skills so evident in the Trump campaign, a sure sign of why this idiot shouldn't be elected town librarian, forget president of the US!
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Last night people gave Trump's speech the highest marks of the evening.
Then it turned out it was plagarized.
Specifically, the portion about integrity and hard work was plagarized.
Ironically from someone that many in the Republican party hate, written by a speechwriter who works for the Hillary campaign.
And, of course, the press itself has a parochial interest in all plagarism accusations - Biden dropped out in 1988 after he got caught plagarizing, for instance. The media, because of its interest in such things, is pretty sharp on plagarism stuff because it is relevant to their interests.
The fact that she said she'd written it with little help just a short time before really made it hurt all the more.
The reality is it probably isn't a big deal in the end, but on the other hand, some of Trump's supporters really hate the Obamas, so plagarizing from them is potentially a special sin.
Or they won't care at all. They're very hard people to predict in that sense.
It was the biggest news item out of the first day other than the failed floor voice vote. Mostly, conventions are not really "news-generating" things, they're supposed to be cheerleading that gets broadcast on TV, so actual "news" is something that the networks are going to grab onto.