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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t envy anyone in that job. Gangs have been taking out journalist and politicians left and right, and I hope she is successful at clawing back the country from the narcos.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

She's probably alive because she's already cut a deal with the narcos. I believe over a dozen other candidates were gunned down, along with some family members. I doubt that her and her family managed to get out of all that from simple luck.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She's a shadow puppet of the last president, and he didn't do anything to stop the narcos or the murders. Why would you think she's different?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You have deduced incorrectly that I have any thought about her whatsoever. I'm merely pointing out that your reasoning is flawed and therefore invalid.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ok. How do you think it's flawed? The drug lords literally killed over a dozen other candidates, the current president was looking the other way on their business, and this woman worked with that president and is known to have similar views.

So where's the flaw, my guy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She is still alive so she must've made a deal with the drugs cartel is a classic "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy. It is all speculation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well of course it's speculation. It doesn't make it untrue or very unlikely, though. It's just not a certainty. What is a certainty was that a dozen+ candidates were murdered, but there weren't any attempts of her or her family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What is a certainty was that a dozen+ candidates were murdered, but there weren’t any attempts of her or her family.

This means precisely nothing, as explained by the fallacy mentioned before.

It doesn’t make it untrue or very unlikely, though

But you called it 'probably' though, which is on the complete other end of the spectrum from 'very unlikely'... (aside from it being very unlikely to me, if all I have to go on is unrelated events, someone not being dead, and nothing else)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

What kind of comment is that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe she could be protected by "pilares de Oro y plata" or pillars of gold and silver. Or just really thick steel? What about really thick steel? Would that work?