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[–] 13igtyme@startrek.website 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't move the goal post, I was wrong. Guess what, so were you and Bush still fucking lied. Not to mention he had no issue golfing all the other times before that during the Afghanistan war.

Remind me is August the same as October? Is October in August? I just don't know how calendars work. Moving the goal post, talk about fucking projection.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Moving the goal post, talk about fucking projection.

Definitely not projection, given you jumped right past acknowledging you were completely, utterly wrong in a way that was trivially debunkable (and frankly seemed dubious just from common sense) and just started ranting about other stuff that wasn't relevant to why you were wrong – like him being a piece of shit in 2002.

Not to mention he had no issue golfing all the other times before that during the Afghanistan war.

You're still acting like I'm trying to defend George W. Bush as a person and not just, like, showing you were confidently wrong.

Remind me is August the same as October? Is October in August? I just don’t know how calendars work.

You're being so obnoxious and unwilling to take the L with any dignity. The point of my original comment wasn't asserting that he quit that specific day on 19 August; I provided that date as context for the bombing he was talking about, because it was 23 years ago and not everyone remembers or was even alive for that.

My point was the quote "you haven't been golfing in recent years" and that he quit c. 2003. Which as you pointed out turned out to be October 13, 2003. That is, I wasn't trying to assign a concrete date to when he quit; I was trying to show you were completely off-base, which you were.

Chill out.


Edit: Worth noting, even, that there's a fairly logical explanation some have pointed out that Bush may have suffered a torn meniscus which would make a sport like golf pretty painful. (He would have his knee replaced about 10 years later.)