nige1, on 2016-December-05, 19:52, said:
Few read all BBO threads and I don't defend the opinions of JonOttowa or Kaitlyn.
However, Jonottowa and Kaitlyn aren't stupid. Nor are they liars.
I am not suggesting that K has ever lied...she has regurgitated lies but I accept that she is sufficiently credulous to believe them, given that she appears to be surrounded by similarly credulous people. But what evidence do you have for the astounding assertion that jon is neither a liar nor stupid? I could, possibly, be persuaded that he is stupidly wrong, and thus not a liar, or that he is lying through his teeth, for reasons that escape me, and not stupid. But to be neither, given what he has written? I mean, even tho I have not read anything he has posted for days now, the earlier evidence seems pretty damning.
Of course, one has to understand that a lie is not limited to a statement that A is B, when we know that it is not. It is also a lie to knowingly, and with approval, quote a lie or endorse or retweet a lie.
You have, yourself, agreed that jon's statements and endorsement of statements about fraudulent voters is unpersuasive, but you can't dodge the bullet by calling jon's statements 'opinions'.
You may not like it, but it is as deceitful to utter an opinion that no honest person could hold as it is to state as a fact that which no honest person could believe to be true.
Opinions when based on bias, bigotry, prejudice and the desire to disseminate untruths are lies, not miraculously made valid, honest, worthy of respect or true by being hidden behind the guise of opinion.
Of course, if you disagree, show us your reasoning.