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[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ok so you're saying that you need to outright lie to get people to side with you?

That makes you sound like a politician, not a human rights advocate, but sure

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Burning Man called. They want their gigantic strawman back.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about you address the fact that you're saying that telling the truth would distract from the point instead of pulling up distractions? Sounds like whataboutism to me

[–] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me put it another way.

There's 4,947,3842.562 kinds of people in the world: those who obsess over needless numeral exactitude when faced with a rhetorical argument, and those who don't.