Democratic Primaries

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I told you, I *did* google it. I posted the relevant link I found. It did not support the assertion you appeared to be making (hard to be sure, since your entire assertion was "HIPAA" with no further explanation). I asked for you or anyone else here to let me know what I missed, since Sanders did support HIPAA in that vote. Crickets so far.

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For the fourth or fifth time, saying that someone who asserts something without evidence might be pulling it out of their ass is not the same as saying they are dishonest or stupid. After four or five times, have I really not been clear about this, or are you trolling me? But for example, sometimes people just pass along something they heard (or think they heard) without ever confirming it for themselves. They believe something because it "feels" right ("truthiness" as Colbert calls it), but they have no actual knowledge to support the belief. To me, that's an example of someone pulling something out of their ass. But such a person is not necessarily dishonest or stupid.

I think most people probably pull something out of their ass at least a little, every now and then. Not because they're liars or dishonest, but because our off-the-cuff knowledge base tends to be something of a "close approximation" of reality, and we fill in the gaps as we go best we can, with varying degrees of success. But that's probably a mental processing and philosophical conversation for another place and time.

Anyway, I never even actually said that you were pulling it out of your ass, but rather that, if you were unwilling/unable to backup an assertion, that's what I would be inclined to think. And I still don't think that is so insulting that one must demand an apology. But I understand people can read things typed online with a different feeling than what was intended. Maybe you didn't mean "You've got a computer, look it up yourself" as the kind of borderline "F.U." I thought it came across as.