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Blogger Humiliates Town Councillors Into Resigning

Posted by kdawson on from the speaking-truth-to-power dept.

Dr_Barnowl writes "In an occurrence first postulated in sci-fi and later lampooned by stick figures, it seems that a blogger has actually been responsible for the mass resignation of elected officials — a British town council — largely by calling them 'jack***es' and Nazis. What's next? The deposition of a president with 'your mom' smacktalk?"

3 of 227 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Can we get rid of the US Congress so easily? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    to elect sympathy (no pun intended).

    If you'd said 'elicit' there would've been no pun anyway...

  2. Re:CounCILLors! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't feed the Trois!

  3. Re:Can we get rid of the US Congress so easily? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think all rational people realize that when someone whips out the Nazi comparison that they're just behaving irrationally

    Normally you'd be right, but you know, when the council voted to invade Poland, someone had to dare to speak the truth!

    --
    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.