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posted ago by Bigdaddyhaze +2130 / -0

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered “five,” Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.
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underthesmellybridge 93 points ago +94 / -1

Cute, but WRONG. Lincoln did not say "count the tail as a leg." He said "call the tail a leg."

Abraham Lincoln was fond of asking, “If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?” “Five,” his audience would invariably answer. “No,” he would politely respond,” the correct answer is four. Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”

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Beat_to_Quarters 48 points ago +48 / -0

Now it makes sense. If you ask me to count the tail as a leg for the sake of your argument, then say I shouldnt have, that's just being semantical and not really a good thought experiment. You didnt give me a choice, you just undermined your own premise you asked me to follow just to "get" me.

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TheSwiftPepe 18 points ago +19 / -1

As they say, a fool can never accurately quote a wise man. Because he translates what he hears into what he can understand.

Not calling OP a fool, just calling Abe wise.

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frankenbox 8 points ago +8 / -0

You can get a good look at t-bone by sticking your head up the butchers ass....

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trumpORbust 6 points ago +6 / -0

You smart -- you be raycyst

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TheBehavingBeaver 3 points ago +3 / -0

fact'd

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TruthyBrat 33 points ago +33 / -0

Apply this thinking to the trans phenomenon.

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WinstonSmith1984 19 points ago +19 / -0

Bigot!

also, 2+2=5

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astro_eng 5 points ago +5 / -0

+1 = -1

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WinstonSmith1984 3 points ago +3 / -0

Signs are racist! Are vales are absolute!

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TheBehavingBeaver 1 point ago +1 / -0

well in a field of characteristic 2 its true

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Ekgamut 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nope, you are wrong. It is 2+2=1

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WinstonSmith1984 2 points ago +2 / -0

Is that orgy math?

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littlebridges 18 points ago +19 / -1

Truth Exists.

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CisSiberianOrchestra 17 points ago +17 / -0

Objective truth > subjective truth

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deleted 18 points ago +18 / -0
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Oback_Barama 10 points ago +10 / -0

The MSM doesn't need you to get on board with the Marxist revolution, they just need you too scared to say anything against it.

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Mea_culpa-78 5 points ago +5 / -0

And it’s working. They’ve made it so that we can’t speak up in the work place, at social events, even our churches have to avoid being forceful on any issues the leftists care about. You don’t change minds by driving dissent underground, you just lose the ability to keep track of it.

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MegoThor 13 points ago +13 / -0

Lincoln then went on to describe how dissenting newspapers could be shut down and journalists could be arrested.

We could all learn something from Honest Abe.

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covfefe613 8 points ago +8 / -0

So what you’re saying is I’m not an attack helicopter?

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MythArcana 8 points ago +8 / -0

In other words, there's only two genders.

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Pedeberrycrunch 3 points ago +3 / -0

In 2016 during the debates, when responding to a question about whether or not it was acceptable for politicians to be "two-faced," Killary said:

“President Lincoln was trying to convince some people, he used some arguments. Convincing other people, he used other arguments. That was, I thought, a great display of presidential leadership.”

In a sense, she called Lincoln two-faced, while simultaneously agreeing with the premise..

Little did she know, Lincoln had already responded to that same attack, no doubt anticipating the first female presidential candidate, a Democrat, invoking his words so imprecisely.

“If I had another face, do you think I'd wear this one?”

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MidwestNorsk 2 points ago +2 / -0

What does that mean for my four-legged dog who identifies as a five-legged dog?

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raybiker73 1 point ago +1 / -0

Honest Abe would have been a great shitposter, I'd bet.

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Ryoten 1 point ago +1 / -0

What a class act!

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ConservativeMom03 1 point ago +1 / -0

This history researcher says he used a calf, not a dog, in the analogy.

https://timpanogos.blog/2007/05/23/lincoln-quote-sourced-calfs-tail-not-dogs-tail/

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Amway 1 point ago +1 / -0

If this gets around they'll definitely tear down his statues and throw away their pennies. Native Americans are against tearing down Mount Rushmore. Their young men would not be able to repel down and piss in the Presidents mouths.

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Mr_Clit_Beastwood 1 point ago +1 / -0

What if you count a man's flayed penis after tucked it inside his body as one vagina? How many vaginas does this man now have?