Questions tagged [politics]
Use this tag for questions that regard statements made by politicians. Do not use [politician name] tags unless the claim is *about* that politician.
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Are Democrats more likely to believe Astrology is a science?
In an answer on politics.SE, a Northwestern University study was highlighted, whose main findings included:
more Democrats than Republicans think astrology is scientific
Using Fisher’s Exact Test, ...
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Did Clinton express regret over not rigging Palestinian elections in 2006?
This is a question about the authenticity of a recording and of its associated reporting.
This source (New York Observer in 2016) reported Hillary Clinton as saying on September 5, 2006, to Eli ...
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Did Pakistan ask China to invade India and vice versa in 1962 and in 1999?
I was watching this widely seen (Urdu) video, Pakistani journalist Imran Khan claims:
In 1962:
China invited Pakistan to invade India (as China attacked India).
The USA assured Pakistan that they ...
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Did Netanyahu say (apparently in 2001) "I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"?
There are a few sources claiming he said this ("I actually stopped the Oslo Accords"), but all of those I found are rather left-wing. E.g. a 2012 opinion piece in Haaretz or a piece in ...
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Did Alex Jones warn of an attack on the United States by Osama Bin Laden in July of 2001?
I was listening to a podcast by Jordan Klepper in which a conspiracy theory researcher is interviewed, and explains that Alex Jones was responsible for a lot of the 9/11 conspiracy theories as he ...
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Was there widespread voter fraud in Michigan in the 2020 Presidential Elections?
Vosiznies (VINnews), a right-leaning Orthodox Jewish news site, has claimed that there has been
disturbing and sizable evidence of systemic voter
fraud in Michigan.
They cite a video that they claim ...
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Was Stuart Seldowitz "Obama's former/ex-director of the National Security Council"?
There's a related Q here about some other past job claims about him, but there's also, e.g. in the Daily Mail:
Barack Obama's former director of the National Security Council has been unmasked as a ...
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Did US president Theodore Roosevelt call Democrats "prison vermin"?
According to two very non-primary references, the President called Democrats "prison vermin".
The first is the 1902 Political X-rays, saying that it is quoting from an 8 November 1901 letter ...
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Would US president Theodore Roosevelt refer to his political enemies as "vermin"?
A publication of the Library of Congress says:
Mr. Foulke in his letters reveals an unusual frankness in letting President Roosevelt know of the attitudes of his political enemies -- "small ...
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Did Hamas dig up EU-funded water pipes and turn them into rockets?
A recurring narrative/allegation in debates about the current Hamas/Israel conflict is that Hamas has dug up EU steel pipes and turned them into Qassam rockets. The main sources for this appear to be ...
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Are the media headline claims, implying that Smotrich's Palestinian statement was false, justified?
A Google search (2023-03-22) for "Smotrich" occurring within the past week produces:
Bezalel Smotrich - Wikipedia
Top stories:
CNN - Israeli minister says there's 'no such thing as a ...
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Has Azerbaijan "not had any environmental activist initiatives for the past decade"?
A long article about the Azerbaijani blockade of the (now former) Lachin corridor claims that:
Azerbaijan is an authoritarian country that has not had any environmental activist initiatives for the ...
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Do US preschools ban lunches being brought to school?
In October 2013, on My 2 Crazy Curls, a blogger from Richmond, VA, reported receiving a letter from her child's preschool, explicitly banning students from bringing their own food to school without a ...
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Was the KGB using leftists to "destabilize" nations?
In 1984, a former KGB agent, Yuri Bezmenov, claimed in a lengthy interview that:
@32:11: [...] progressive intellectuals; writers, journalists, publishers, professors of colleges [...] For us ...
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Does the Westboro Baptist Church get most of their funding from lawsuits?
The Westboro Baptist Church is notorious for picketing things like funerals and they generate a lot of attention by doing so. A common trend in discussions about the church goes something like:
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Did "Joe the Plumber" perform plumbing work for money between when he left the Air Force and October 2008?
"Joe the Plumber" aka Joe Wurzelbacher gained attention in the 2008 US presidential campaign between Obama and McCain and passed away recently.
In the original discussion with Obama that ...
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Is this infographic about Palestinian loss of land since 1947 accurate? [duplicate]
I've come across this infographic a few times on social media, most recently in this widely shared Facebook post:
Here is a larger version of the infographic:
Are the borders in it largely accurate?
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Was the Education of Little Tree written by an ex-Klansman?
One of my favorite children's books growing up was the Education of Little Tree. This is a popular children's book in the US about a child who goes to live with his Cherokee grandparents in Appalachia ...
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Did Ron DeSantis torture people at Guantanamo Bay?
According to self-described "MAGA communist" Jackson Hinkle, Ron DeSantis "tortured innocent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay when he was in the military". Is this true?
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Did Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird ignore direct orders from Nixon during the EC-121 crisis, as Henry Kissinger alleged?
It's mentioned in a paper on the Vietnam war that (contemporaneously):
When [... in 1969] a North Korean jet shot down a U.S. EC-121
surveillance plane, Laird again acted on his own as he ignored a ...
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Does the Chinese Communist Party (or government) enjoy 80% to 90% popular approval in almost all their decisions?
Roland Boer who has written extensively about China, write in his 2021 Springer book Socialism with Chinese Characteristics. A Guide for Foreigners, p. 281:
For Xi, the people’s standpoint (lichang) ...
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Is the UAE sponsoring the RSF coup in Sudan?
According to a MEMO article titled "UAE behind RSF's attempted coup in Sudan, leaked recording says":
In the alleged audio recording, which could not be verified, a man media outlets ...
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Is the curtain behind Obama in this picture a "muslim prayer curtain"?
I've been shown this image a few times:
Naturally, it's a little ridiculous, because there are surely at least a thousand pictures of him near an American flag.
But it is making a claim that the ...
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Did Dick Cheney run a death squad that killed Benazir Bhutto?
According to a dawn.com article:
WASHINGTON, May 18. A special death squad assassinated Pakistan's
former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on the orders of former US
vice-president Dick Cheney, claims ...
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Were Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers asking for reduced liability invoking the unprecedented testing schedule?
According to RebelNews, Canadian MP Anthony Housefather said
It's because these documents were signed at the beginning of the pandemic when everybody was desperate for vaccines, when companies were ...
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Did Saul Alinsky dedicate a book to Lucifer and act as Hillary Clinton's mentor?
If you are a Christian, why are you voting for Hillary Clinton when she wrote her Senior thesis on Saul Alinsky who dedicated his book Rules for Radicals to Lucifer, The Devil. She says he was and ...
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Did Biden say that the Boeing-Air India deal will support 1 million jobs?
This Business Insider India news report is one of many that claim that Biden said that a $34 billion dollar Air India order for 220 Boeing planes will support 1 million US jobs, and that many of those ...
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Does an official UK government report show 'Hope Not Hate' as a radical extremist hate group?
On the 12th of February 2023 Douglas Murray, Author and political commentator, wrote the following tweet:
Evidence from official UK government report shows radical far-left group ‘Hope Not Hate’ (@...
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Was the term "conspiracy theorist" made popular by the CIA?
I have seen the following infographic on facebook recently.
The text reads:
Did you know... The term "conspiracy theorist" was a term made popular by the CIA to stop critical thinkers from asking ...
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Does any police/emergency services department in the US/UK/Australia/Canada employ a psychic consultant?
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At this current point in time (within say the last 5 years) are there any police departments or emergency service organisations which employ a psychic?
It shows up occasionally in movies and I'...
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Are George Santos and Gretchen Whitmer the same person?
Some right-leaning (maybe that's not a strong enough term) sources, such as Not the Bee, have claimed or at least implied that Gretchen Whitmer does not really exist, but is actually George Santos in ...
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Were countries led by women more successful at handling COVID-19 in early 2020?
This claim's been around a bit, e.g. The Hill, Scoop Whoop, NYT. The countries named are Germany, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Belgium, Taiwan, Norway.
I'm wondering if this claim cherry-picks the ...
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Did Donald Trump "[imitate] a disabled reporter"?
During her speech at the Golden Globes, Meryl Streep said the following:
But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It, it sank its hooks in my heart. Not because it was good. It was -...
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Did Neil Armstrong find aliens on the moon?
There is a story told in Timothy Good's book Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-Up and repeated by The Examiner and Global Paranormal in which Neil Armstrong saw aliens on the moon, and ...
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Who would really be paying for the proposed property tax cuts that the state of Texas is considering? [closed]
Quoting State of Texas: Budget plans leave billions of available funds on the table:
In his inauguration speech, Abbott touted Texas’ pro-business stance and unveiled some plans for the state’s ...
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Did Greg Abbott send a busload of migrants to Kamala Harris' house on Christmas Eve?
I can't square this one. Greg Abbott is a Republican governor who espouses conservative Christian values, so when I read that he deliberately redirected a busload of migrant families to a political ...
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Did the United States spend $118,000 to study if a metal replica of Thanos could snap his fingers?
According to this video, Rand Paul states the United States spent $118,000 USD to see if a metal replica of Thanos could snap his fingers. Is this what they were trying to figure out with these funds?
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Did Malala Yousafzai ever say "socialism is the only answer"?
I just saw this picture making the latest rounds today on Reddit's /r/socialism. The picture has the quote attributed to Malala Yousafzai,
Caption reads,
I am convinced
socialism is the
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Did Michael McCaul claim intel briefers told him Tucker Carlson is a Russian agent?
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson just said this on the Tulsi Gabbard Show:
Second thing, Michael McCaul […] I got into an argument with him once last year on the phone. He had told somebody that I was a ...
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On 9/11, was Building 7 destroyed in a controlled explosion?
There have been a lot of claims made about the circumstances surrounding the events of 9/11 and Building 7 in particular.
The central claim regarding Building 7, that I have heard personally, is that ...
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Do men with no prior exposure to child pornography go on to harm children once exposed?
UK government advisor John Carr, of the Council on Child Internet Safety, claims in a radio interview:
Mr Carr said there was "no question" that some men who look at child sex abuse images ...
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Has the USA been stealing oil from Syria?
It has been widely claimed that the US has been stealing oil from Syria.
For example:
China's Global Times, August 2022:
On August 8, the Syrian Oil Ministry said that the US and its mercenaries ...
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Did Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1945 say, “Muslims who are opposing Pakistan will spend the rest of their lives proving loyalty to India”?
A widely-retweeted Dec 12 2019 tweet by @TonyAshai reads
Mohomad Ali Jinnah said in 1945, “Muslims who are opposing #Pakistan will spend rest of their lives proving loyalty to India” and #Modi and #...
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Did Elon Musk pay more in taxes than every politician in the world combined?
A tweet claims Elon Musk paid more in tax than every politician on earth combined:
Which, if correct, is extraordinary.
So, did he?
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Did the husbands of Theresa May and Victoria Atkins (then British PM and drugs minister) profit from the sale of medicinal cannabis?
As read in this link:
RT
The cannabis for Epidiolex is being provided from a 45-acre cannabis farm in the UK operated by British Sugar, whose links to Tory ministers were exposed in February when ...
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Is Barack Obama's Birth Certificate a Forgery of Johanna Ah'nee's birth certificate?
I realize the general question has been covered before but there is new supposed evidence "uncovered" by Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, as presented in a recent press ...
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Is there a significant number of people who claim benefits when they could work instead?
The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom Suella Braverman recently claimed that there is a "stubborn core of our population that sees welfare as the go-to option [and] is not motivated... to get ...
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Did the French Revolution cause people to give the Ace (in a deck of cards) rank above a King?
Wikipedia says
After the French Revolution some games started to use the ace or 1 as
the highest card which symbolized the lowest in society rising above
the King.
A discussion forum recently ...
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Is participating in competitive sport harmful to young children?
There is a proposal for all primary school children (ages 4 to 11) in England to play competitive team sports:
Competitive team sports will be made compulsory for all primary age children, David ...
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How could Donald Trump have kept that many classified "Presidential Records" after leaving office?
FBI agents seized 11 sets of classified documents from former President Trump’s residence earlier this week, including some so sensitive they could only be stored in special government facilities, ...
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