PugJesus@piefed.social to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoThe curse of knowing conservatives in any capacityimagemessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up1518arrow-down15
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minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoWow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen. To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
minus-squarevaultdweller013@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoYet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.
Wow, that’s one of the worst paraphrasings of his quote that I’ve ever seen.
To paraphrase Socrates, The only true wisdom is you’re dumb.
Yet both my shit paraphrase and your shit paraphrase hold closer to the actual intent of the quotes than what people often imply with actual quotes. Like when preachers cherry pick the Bible or that one Tolkien quote about allegory.