Questions tagged [politics]
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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
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Was Bernie Sanders the first Democratic candidate who "didn't have to go to the Jewish community in New York to get money to run"?
That's the case according to a 2016 statement by Seymour Hersh. Hersh also says that therefore the US may have been able to change its policy towards Israel had Sanders been elected.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Was inflation in the US 0% for July 2022?
A few days ago, President Biden said
Today, we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July — 0%
This was contested in conservative media, with Fox News running the headline &...
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Did Barack Obama keep 33 million pages of documents, including nuclear weapons documents?
A public statement from former U.S. president Donald Trump claims that former president Barack Obama kept 33 million documents from his presidency, most of them classified and many of which contained ...
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Does the Inflation Reduction Act increase taxes on people making less than $10,000 / year?
Quoting Democrats rely on misleading messaging to sell Manchin-Schumer bill:
In 2023, the year in which the legislation would increase tax revenue most, individuals making less than $10,000 per year ...
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Does flying a small GA aircraft use less fuel than driving the same distance by car?
This is a notable claim by Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU party and a member of the German parliament:
„Ich bereue nicht, dass ich zur Hochzeit von Christian Lindner geflogen bin. Um es mal auf den ...
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Did Volodymyr Zelenskyy say that "if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, they should leave for Russia"?
In an interview with the BBC on June 16, 2022, Sergey Lavrov claims the following:
[…], whose president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in September 2021 (you didn’t tell your viewers about it, did you?) ...
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Did the Minsk accords (if they had been fully implemented) give LPR/DPR (and thus Russia) veto power over any legislation in Ukraine?
According to William E. Pomeranz of the Wilson Center:
the Minsk accords call on Kyiv not only to recognize the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk within the country but also to give these two ...
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Did female majority electorate result in higher government spending compared to WW2?
An inflammatory infographic frequently shared online claims that women voting is directly responsible for increase of government spending which it argues overshadows the effects of ww2. I would like ...
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Does exported Ukrainian wheat (only) amount to 2.5% of the world's wheat production?
In May, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said:
shortages of grain and fertiliser caused by the war, warming temperatures and pandemic-driven supply problems threaten to “tip tens ...
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Has the United States only ratified 5 of 18 international treaties on human rights?
A recent opinion piece in the English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique makes passing reference to the idea that the United States "has ratified only five of the 18 international human rights ...
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Did Russia's parliament, Duma, propose invading Poland in 2022?
Twitter user @sentdefender, with >160K followers, recently tweeted
The Russian State Duma has proposed that after the Invasion of Ukraine, that Poland be Invaded and denazified next due to their ...
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Were evangelicals rallied around abortion in 1978, as a substitute for segregation?
The June 20, 2019 edition of NPR’s “Throughline” podcast “examines how the issue of abortion became a defining political issue for evangelicals.”
In it, the hosts talk about evangelicals initially ...
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Has Biden averaged 550,000 new jobs per month as president?
I just saw on President Biden's Facebook page that he's averaged roughly 550,000 new jobs per month, more than double than the next highest, Bill Clinton. A lot of the people in the comments are ...
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Did the government of Florida reject all K-5 maths books, except for ones issued by a specific ex-employer of a colleague of the current governor?
This article alleges that the only books approved by Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education were published by "Accelerate Learning", a company which happens to have ...
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Were Texas & Florida Hiding COVID-19 Data? [closed]
I remember reading that Texas and Florida (which have some high population density cities (and especially Florida with a high percentage of elderly, and hence at risk population) were not comparable ...
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Does Elon Musk's Starlink system play a significant role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
The DW article Ukraine is using Elon Musk's Starlink for drone strikes about the use of Starlink to provide internet in Ukraine is suggesting that it is playing a role in, e.g., the way president ...
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Did the US government officially spend $41m to make Milosevic lose the 2000 elections?
A 2004 article in the Guardian by the late Ian Traynor says:
Officially, the US government spent $41m (£21.7m) organising and funding the year-long operation to get rid of Milosevic from October 1999....
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Did Jiang Zemin write an unpublished memoir?
It's been claimed in connection with the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade that:
In February 2011 The Sunday Times published an article stating that an unpublished memoir by former ...
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Did former US Ambassador, Chas Freeman, say “The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang.”?
In a highly-upvoted Quora answer, Godfree Roberts quotes US Ambassador Chas. H. Freeman [sic]:
The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang. ...
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Did these politicians say these quotes regarding rape?
DISCLAIMER: IMAGE CONTAINS QUOTES THAT RELATE TO SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE
I recently saw a meme on Quora that claims to show quotes from conservative politicians arguing against abortion in the cases ...
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Have there recently been any immigrants illegally crossing the Mexico-Texas border from South Africa?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott posted on Twitter:
Biden banned travel from South Africa because of the new Covid variant.
Immigrants have recently been apprehended crossing our border illegally from ...
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Is this quote from Lenin: "Make them swallow the word, they will swallow the thing"?
Éric Zemmour, the far-right probable candidate for the 2022 French presidential election said (in his book La France n'a pas dit son dernier mot but also in many meetings, example) that Lenin has ...
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Do these satellite photos show mockups of US military vessels?
Many news outlets are claiming that China has built mockups of US carriers and destroyers in the dessert of Taklamakan (example 1, example 2, example 3).
I have some doubts on this, partly because the ...
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Is Kamala Harris' approval rating the lowest of any vice president?
Is Kamala Harris' approval rating "the lowest of any vice president"? I was watching this Fox News video and I am not sure if it's accurate or not.
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28% approval rating as of Nov 8, ...
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Is Walter Reed not able to handle the number of Havana Syndrome patients?
Journalist Julia Ioffe just said this in a Puck News article:
Meanwhile, the number of government employees suffering from Havana Syndrome has jumped from a couple dozen to a couple hundred. Some ...
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Is the UK lorry driver shortage unrelated to Brexit? Do EU countries have equal or greater shortages?
UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps claims that Brexit is not one of the causes of the UK lorry driver shortage which is causing shortages of food in supermarkets and shortages of fuel in petrol ...
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Is the size of the territory of a country purely random? [closed]
I read a blog post that attempts to show that the size of the territory of a country is purely random and therefore bears no major historical significance.
The argumentation (simplified a bit) is as ...
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Is the UK experiencing wage growth for people on low incomes?
In a TV interview with Andrew Marr on 3 Oct 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that UK wages were growing for people on low incomes. The interviewer (Marr) said that wasn't true - Johnson ...
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Are young liberal women more likely to have a mental health condition?
Evie Magazine reports on a 2020 Pew Research study, in an article titled Over 50% Of Liberal, White Women Under 30 Have A Mental Health Issue. Are We Worried Yet?
Conservatives label younger liberal ...
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Did Donald Trump move donated money to his business accounts?
According to The Independent,
Donald Trump moved more than $200,000 donated to his Make America Great Again PAC into his own private business accounts, according to an analysis of his federal filings....
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Did Iranian state TV say that the drone attack on the tanker in July 2021 was in retaliation for an Israeli strike?
CNN claimed that the Iranian state media has taken credit for a deadly drone attack on a tanker connected to a "Israeli billionaire" going so far as to say it was "retaliation" for ...
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Is electric pulse fishing less ecologically harmful than beam trawl fishing? [closed]
The Netherlands have championed a technique for fishing which uses electric shocks to lure fish into their nets. It is called electric pulse fishing. The Dutch state (and fishing lobby) maintains that ...
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Is there a bill in Iowa that bans the teaching of sexism, slavery, and racial segregation?
Is there a critical race theory bill in Iowa
that bans the teaching of the following topics: sexism, slavery,
racial segregation, racial discrimination, including topics related to
the enactment and ...
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Is this "Dear Liberal Communists" poster a real poster from Turning Point USA?
The following poster has circulated on social media and blogs:
Examples:
https://twitter.com/viet_t_nguyen/status/1378598473314930691
https://twitter.com/krupali/status/1378556380550852613
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Have Australia's emissions fallen to the lowest level since 1990
The Liberal Party of Australia posted a claim on Facebook that Australia's emissions have fallen to the lowest level since 1990. Is this accurate?
Below is a screenshot of the Facebook post, and ...
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