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MicroWave Oct 6

House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration set ablaze

https://lemmy.world/post/36967977

House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration set ablaze - Lemmy.World

The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats. State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews. Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. According to the St. Paul’s Fire District, which responded to the scene, the occupants had to be rescued via kayak. Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack.

QuoVadisHomines Oct 6

The word “could” is doing heavily lifting there.

Remember at this moment we have no idea why this home caught fire. We might later but at this point this is all clickbait.

Found Stephen Miller's account.

QuoVadisHomines Oct 6

Im guessing you don’t work in programming, law or science. Would that be a correct presumption?

That far right extremists keep perpetuating violence based on far right propaganda and that assuming this is one of those is along the same lines as assuming Kirk was intentionally shot and it wasn't just a random stray bullet.

Sure, we should stay open to the possibility that it is unrelated. But automatically dismissing what is likely to be intentional is ridiculous.

QuoVadisHomines Oct 6

arson is not the most frequent cause of house fires so presuming arson as the most likely cause in this case is foolish. It could be a coincidence. We have no idea why this happened and deciding it is political is not logical.

Other than trying to fan the flames of discontent, and thus being part of the problem, what is the point of deciding this was political violence when you have no evidence at all to back any claim?

The intelligent position is to make no claims until you have evidence.

Ignore context harder daddy!

mmcintyre Oct 6

Do you know that arson is not the most common cause of house fires among people currently receiving death threats? Because I don’t. Like… it could be, but I wouldn’t presume.

I agree, but that also seems to be agreein with their claim

QuoVadisHomines Oct 6

You work in web development. You don’t need good sound logical thinking skills for that position. The jobs I listed off require being good at logical thinking. I suspected you didn’t do those given the poor logical thinking skills you have displayed.

What is your job again?

pivot_root Oct 6

Unless he actually answers, it’s probably safe to assume Sr. Keyboard Warrior.

A_norny_mousse Oct 6

You had a point in your original comment, but you definitely lost me now.

QuoVadisHomines Oct 6

They were displaying poor logical skills so I presumed they did not work in a field that required strong logical skills.

Saying you don’t know is not dismissing.

In contexts where it is used to deflect from context it can be dismissing.

That’s not what they did, they rejected people acting as if the cause is certain