Into the Night
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Omniscience fallacy. You don't get to speak for everyone, Sybil.
Rural MAGA town loses only medical center
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Into the Night
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Jealousy.
Into the Night
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YARP
Jake Starkey
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Into the Night is a practitioner of this fallacy.
The omniscience fallacy occurs when someone falsely assumes that a person—or group—has complete knowledge or awareness of all relevant facts, intentions, or consequences. It’s a logical error that attributes unrealistic levels of insight or foresight to others, often to dismiss their actions or arguments.
Common Forms of the Fallacy
- Assuming total awareness: “They knew exactly what would happen, so they must have done it on purpose.”
- Projecting universal knowledge: “Everyone knows that’s wrong, so they must be lying.”
- Judging decisions with hindsight: “They should have predicted the outcome perfectly.”
Why It’s Flawed
- Humans operate with limited information, context, and cognitive biases.
- Decision-making often involves uncertainty, especially in complex systems like politics, economics, or medicine.
- The fallacy ignores reasonable error, evolving knowledge, and the possibility of good-faith mistakes.
Example in Debate
- “The CDC changed its guidance, so they must have been lying before.”
- This assumes omniscience rather than acknowledging evolving science.
Into the Night
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YAIF.
Illiteracy: Proper nouns are always capitalized, Wally.
Into the Night
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Inversion fallacy. You cannot blame your fallacies on me, Sybil.
Into the Night
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YARP
Jake Starkey
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Into the Night is gaslighting again above.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which someone causes another person to doubt their own perceptions, memories, or sanity—often to gain control or avoid accountability.
The term comes from the 1938 play Gas Light (and its 1944 film adaptation), in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she’s going insane—partly by dimming the gas lights and denying it’s happening.
Gaslighting can occur in personal relationships, workplaces, politics, or media. It erodes trust in one’s own mind and can lead to anxiety, depression, and emotional dependence.
Would you like help spotting gaslighting in political rhetoric or media coverage? I can also show how it differs from honest disagreement or persuasion.
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which someone causes another person to doubt their own perceptions, memories, or sanity—often to gain control or avoid accountability.
Key Features of Gaslighting
- Denial of reality: The manipulator insists something didn’t happen or wasn’t said, even when it clearly did.
- Twisting facts: They may distort or selectively present information to confuse the target.
- Undermining confidence: Over time, the victim begins to question their own judgment, memory, or emotional stability.
- Isolation: Gaslighters often try to separate the victim from others who might validate their experience.
Examples
- “You’re being too sensitive. That never happened.”
- “You always misremember things.”
- “Everyone else agrees with me—you’re the only one who thinks that.”
Origin of the Term
The term comes from the 1938 play Gas Light (and its 1944 film adaptation), in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she’s going insane—partly by dimming the gas lights and denying it’s happening.
Why It’s Harmful
Gaslighting can occur in personal relationships, workplaces, politics, or media. It erodes trust in one’s own mind and can lead to anxiety, depression, and emotional dependence.Would you like help spotting gaslighting in political rhetoric or media coverage? I can also show how it differs from honest disagreement or persuasion.
So if they are having a heart attack, they simply drive for 30 to 60 minutes and get to a hospital that will also go under because too many people are under insured.
What we are looking at is cascading failures. The local medical center goes bankrupt forcing people to go to the further away hospital, that also goes bankrupt.
Into the Night
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Inversion fallacy.
Then you claimed to live in the country!
Why would a rancher or farmer waste their money buying land to live in the city, Dumber?? A reasonably successful farmer or rancher makes far more than you do!
Non-sequitur fallacy. YOU don't get to determine what 'success' is.
Nope. If you have the initiative to be successful, you will be successful.
Trump is a successful real estate developer AND he was elected President of the United States. You're jealous.
Into the Night
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Obviously, you have never lived rural, or in Nampa, or in Boise.
Into the Night
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Farmers and ranchers are already employed, Dumber. Their business is their ranch or farm, which cost a hell of a lot more than YOU can afford!
Why would a farmer or rancher want to move to the city, Dumber? They LIKE where they are!
How much more does that cost?
If President Trump is, what does that make Heels Up Harris, who he trounced, Wrong Way Walter?
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Insurance pays for it, WWW (Wrong Way Walter).
A family member used a medical emergency helicopter. The cost was 30 thousand dollars. Medicare paid all but 200 dollars.
Get a clue, WWW.
Hospital grade receptacles cost $8.46 at Home Depot, and less than $4 if you buy them wholesale. Most hospitals would buy them wholesale. The red color is to indicate that it has a backup power supply, and is not about it being hospital grade. It adds little to nothing to the price. The green dot means it is ground isolated, which is important to delicate equipment. That is the reason that we use them(we are not a hospital). It has a dozen safety features that a normal outlet would not have... But is also an industrial grade receptacle. That means it is made out of tougher material, which will last longer during heavy use.
A mistake some make is buying cheaper residential receptacles for industrial use. Residential receptacles are meant to have plugs put in and taken out every couple of months. When you do that dozens of times a day, they quickly wear out, and cost more money to constantly replace.
Given the number of patients who die from hospital infections, that is just common sense. Yet again, you are complaining that hospital care costs more than sitting at home. That is just reality.
Keeping operating rooms cleaning than garages is just common sense. Hospitals should not need government regulations to force them to do that.
Yes, training a doctor costs so much... BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT!!!
Not true. To be a phlebotomist all you legally need is a certificate that takes 4 to 12 weeks to get. Drawing blood can be dangerous, so some medical training is required, but that can be done in less than 3 months. Most of the training is hands on, with experience being entered into a logbook. There are programs that add on an associate degree, allowing more training to fill out paperwork. Some employers prefer associate degree, but it is not required by law.
Providing medical care, even when done right, can go horribly wrong. We make patients responsible for the extra cost when things go wrong, so in America, they are forced to sue. This also means there are a lot of lawsuits for meaningless lawsuits to hide among. It is a disaster all around.
So to save a few dollars per patient of Medicare expenses, you want Medicare to spend $30k per patient? That must be that new trump math we keep hearing about.
"Trounced"? trump was not even able to get a majority of the popular vote.
Jake Starkey
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Neither candidate got a majority.
T. A. Gardner
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Walt and his trivial objections fallacy.