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chuckling skip to main skip to sidebar chuckling online magazine sunday january 01 2012 the alternate universe fallacy glen grunwald spent nearly half an article about ron paul s vs obama s foreign policy defending himself against partisans who he was sure would attack him for acting on his belief that a political discussion could conceivably occur outside of the red v blue cage match i ve had some small experience with this phenomena over the years i don t read grunwald regularly but i can see that he s getting hit with a shitstorm for his accurate reporting on the crimes heinous crimes and numerous misdemeanors of the obama administration let me stress the word accurate and of course heinous the argument against accurate reporting is always that the alternative would be much much worse sure they say obama is not the ideal president but he s a helluva lot better than x mccain palin gingrich romney any other gop ogre of the day would be so even though obama works hard to achieve massive tax cuts for the wealthy fights to keep home stealing bankers free from prosecution puts massive cuts to social security and medicare on the table uses drones to commit mass murder abroad and signs laws that allow the military greater authority to detain and interrogate u s citizens and deny them legal rights protected by the constitution among numerous other attacks on important principles we ve always believed in we cannot speak of these very real actions taking place in the very real world why is it so wrong to speak of obama s actions because honestly depicting obama s actions may conceivably cause someone somewhere not to vote for him thus putting our hands in the fate of some republican psychopath sure the logic goes obama is bad but mccain would have been a helluva lot worse and romney gingrich paul whichever would be infinitely worse still is that true perhaps but one can t actually say for sure about things that did not happen in the past or have yet to happen in the future things that could only possibly have happened in some alternative universe and you can play that game pretty much anyway you want there are alternative universes out there to support any conceivable point of view but in real life things on the presidential scale never ever turn out exactly as one would have predicted take nixon and reagan please for example many feared dire consequences if they were elected and not that there weren t dire consequences but they turned out to be nowhere near as bad as our worst fears significant opposition kept them from achieving their most heinous goals obama unfortunately has no significant opposition and he is achieving horrors as bad as our worst short of nuclear war fears about nixon and reagan still i understand how hard it is to get away from the alternate universe fallacy gore v bush will no doubt live long as the club of choice for whacking the reality based folk and it s hard not to argue that those nader voters in florida screwed us over royally nevertheless we don t actually know what would have happened in that gore centric alternative universe there may well have been a military coup rather than the supreme court ordered coup that happened in real life there are so so many alternative universes they are as infinite as they are infinitely irrelevant to argue based on one is to indulge in a logical fallacy plain and simple but hey we re not computers let s indulge in one anyway consider if you dare an alternative universe in which voters vote their principles and this is far fetched i know but in this principle centric alternative universe those same voters are not afraid to speak up in favor of their principles thus in this far fetched alternative universe a politician is judged on how well he or she represents the voters principles and more importantly the voters speak up and tell the politicians in no uncertain terms that if they don t represent those principles they re not going to get a lot of votes just a fantasy you say no doubt but must it be that way must the majority remain silent as politicians we voted for implement policies antithetical to our principles must we support heartless ultra violent oligarchies bent on ruining the lives of multitudes simply because the goings on in an imaginary alternative universe might be worse well yes you say okay fine but must we just shut the fuck up about it as well well maybe that s for the best what can a thoughtful man hope for mankind on earth given the experience of the past million years asks the fourteenth book of bokonon nothing is the reply posted by chuckling at 7 36 pm sunday may 22 2011 packed up and moved unfortunately poor chuckling has entered the witness protection program or something like that and will forthwith be writing under an assumed name though still a fictional character writing for a fictional magazine posted by chuckling at 12 45 pm thursday february 10 2011 an unearthly place the words that maketh murder new polly jean harvey posted by chuckling at 8 32 pm monday february 07 2011 capitalism at its best can t help noticing that the huffington post a mostly written publication which proudly does not pay its writers has sold for 315 million i don t know if there s a list of most ridiculous ways in which content producers have been swindled but this has gotta be up there posted by chuckling at 8 53 am sunday february 06 2011 it s not all hopeless i just came across my kid s school newspaper here are the front page headlines faculty disagree on what makes a grade note the school doesn t give grades but many faculty members always try to get around that policy administration notes that system has been around for a long time and works quite well students demand more humanities classes students upset that they are allowed to take two or three language art science or math classes but can only take one english or history class at a time administration notes that system has been around for a long time and works quite well teachers debate use of films in class not much of a debate everyone agrees it s a sign of laziness and doesn t teach much administration notes that policy of focusing on primary sources has been around a long time and works quite well teacher evaluations considered everyone agrees it could be a good thing administration notes that current system has been around a long time and works quite well some pretty good inside stories as well nabokov salinger consistently stolen from library science students seek outside forums for sharing research wikileaks harmful or helpful room for discussion debate on idea of an all elective high school with no graduation requirements brooklyn museum hightlights rockwell s use of photographs islamophobia on the rise in the united states city reacts to bloomberg s controversial education appointment defining hipsters a window into modern society i think all this provides a few pointers on excellent possibilities for education reform unfortunately when given the choice between actually making education good or cutting everything but test prep and advanced test prep most morons in charge choose all test prep all the time posted by chuckling at 5 54 am wednesday january 19 2011 there by the assholery of god sadly i can relate all too well to much too much of this article in the guardian uk about writers who have attempted to quit drinking for the month of january for example during the day it s not so bad except that there s nothing to look forward to of course but the evenings i m finding hard they go on and on and on who knew that evenings were quite such enormous terrifying voids that need to be filled somehow yes i know exactly how he feels having let an alcohol in the evening habit grow imperceptibly over the course of many years interesting though how these brits admit it even wallow in it whereas we americans prefer denial and or self flagellation posted by chuckling at 11 23 am sunday january 09 2011 move along nothing to see here i ve been watching the news coverage about the tucson shooting for a couple hours now without hearing even one mention of the fact that sarah palin literally put her in the crosshairs in fact the news weenies are falling all over themselves emphasizing how outraged the republicans and tea party idiots are about the shooting by this afternoon some people will be speculating that it was all a plot by obama and many others will openly pray for his death more responsible republicans will use the incident to gut any and all gun control legislation and call for tax cuts for the wealthy in order to curtail incidents like this in the future posted by chuckling at 10 45 am older posts home subscribe to comment feed rss about chuck blogs i read most regularly alicublog chris v82 daily howler eschaton gall and gumption juan cole lawyers guns and money writhe safely more blogs i like bartholomew s notes on religion humorlessbitch making light pandagon patriot boy patti 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