From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Iran: Still a Standout
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 11:02:38 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-04 10:15, Dhu on Gate wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:03:10 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 09:10:54 -0800, Alan wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025-02-04 09:09, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 06:40:06 -0800, Alan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-02-04 05:32, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://phys.org/news/2025-02-debunks-nuclear-misinformation-iran-earthquake.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Study debunks nuclear test misinformation following 2024 Iran earthquake
>>>>>> A new study debunks claims that a magnitude 4.5 earthquake in Iran was a
>>>>>> covert nuclear weapons test, as widely alleged on social media and some
>>>>>> mainstream news outlets in October 2024, a period of heightened geopolitical
>>>>>> tensions in the Middle East."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Still the only country (other than Canada ;) that can build nukes and doesn't.
>>>>> You think that proving something wasn't a nuke tests proves they DON'T
>>>>> build nukes?
>>>>
>>>> No. It only proves that Iran's detractors continue to spew fake news.
>>>> Iran has serious problems that cannot be reasonably addressed because
>>>> western opposition intentionally disables meaningful internal discourse.
>>>
>>> It is just as fake to pretend that you can know whether or not Iran is
>>> building nuclear weapons.
>>
>> I believe their Ayatollahs' words more than yours: they're provably human.
>>
>> Dhu
>
> While you are just a source of semantic rubbish: your arguments usually
> require _Reductio_* which renders them delusional and not just wrong.
>
> *truth by negation is subject to Russel's paradox.
In what sense is my argument here based on "reductio ad absurdum"?