drewfx1

eph221
That is truthy.  But the fact that the Ivy League has a stranglehold on power is the elephant in the room.  

 
There may indeed be a great many Ivy League educated people in positions of power, but that doesn't imply that Ivy League educated people hold consistent opinions on policy matters, or much of anything IME. 
 

The fact that people believe education is the path to smarts and happiness is the elephant in the room.  

 
I think you will find that many in fact believe decidedly otherwise.
 
 
And I think that if you want to discuss matters such as this, then you should be more careful about loosely and repeatedly substituting the words "truth" or "fact" for "my opinion".

 
In your opinion. In my opinion Ivy League Educated people hold considerably similar opinions on policy matters, that's how (and why, I learned that asking questions about motivations from you) The only elephant is that they hold power.  The only way to be sure there's a diversity of opinions is to have our leaders  hail from diverse educational paradigms.  
 
There is though, IMHO a spirit in the enslaved that the masters lack (and by spirit I don't mean spunk, Bapu).  And maybe the last laugh will be on the masters!  That remains to be seen.  It's a dialectic.

eph221
Is a nuanced lie truthier? TIA

Maybe it's even more lieier (due to the increased subterfuge inherent in the deployment of deceptive nuance and intentional, yet unwarranted obfuscation.)

outland144k

eph221
Is a nuanced lie truthier? TIA

Maybe it's even more lieier (due to the increased subterfuge inherent in the deployment of deceptive nuance and intentional, yet unwarranted obfuscation.)

 
To some people big words sound lieier.  True

"Outland144k uses his mouth prettier than a two dollar whore."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(ala Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles, lest any juan get offended)

Questions 67 and 68?

bapu
"Outland144k uses his mouth prettier than a two dollar whore."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(ala Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles, lest any juan get offended)

I'm offended that you didn't take inflation into account.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Or did you? 

It depends where the whore lives! In Italy i'm sure he or she would be like 15 million lira!  In Las Vegas it hasn't gone up much because we're in a low inflationary environment these days, thank you miss yellen :D:D

bapu
Just flatheads.

Whew! Those are probably much more open to reason!

"ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
 
Darwin would have loved "truthiness", had the word been coined in his day.
 
"Every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?"
- Homer Simpson

I could learn great things from bitflipper.