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hopler on Dec 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Super Micro says review found no malicious chips i...

Politics and International relations are opinion fields, not fact fields. It's impossible to be wrong about things that are impossible to falsify.

ufmace on Dec 11, 2018 [–]

I wouldn't quite say that. Some aspects are opinions, but there's plenty of facts. Such as "House Reps A and B are cooperating on a bill regarding X" - that's a fact. What your position on X is, whether the bill is a good or bad idea, and why A and B are cooperating on it are opinions.

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