• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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

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        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

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          Let me put it another way.

          There’s 4,947,342.562 kinds of people in the world: those who obsess over needless numeral exactitude when faced with a rhetorical argument, and those who don’t.

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        Exact and false numbers given as proportions aren’t hyperbole, they’re misrepresentations, ie lies.

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          “Say you’re in a room”

          It’s literally at the start of the post. Anyone who has eyes and can read now understands this is hypothetical

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              It’s a hypothetical. Not misinformation. It’s a hypothetical argument meant to make a philosophical point, not to be a case study on sociological statistics

              You fucking dipshits getting hung up on the wrong thing means you don’t have enough brain cells to process the argument at hand.