lumpenproletariat@quokk.auM to agitprop memes for anarchist dreams@anarchist.nexusEnglish · 3 months agoin americaimagemessage-square29linkfedilinkarrow-up1422arrow-down11
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minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down2·3 months agoOn Twitter, you don’t say “I post shitty blanket statements in a way that makes me feel smarter than the strawman I invented to get mad at,” you do this. Isn’t that amazing?
minus-squareGardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up28·3 months agoShe pretty accurately described at least one person I know. It’s not a strawman just because it’s not directly relevant to you.
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·3 months agoYour one anecdote doesn’t prove her blanket statement true
minus-squareGardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up20·3 months agoMaybe it wasn’t a blanket statement. Maybe it was a statement of her experience meant for people who can understand. Like me.
minus-squareLuminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexusMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoIt doesn’t disprove it either? What are you trying to accomplish here, besides look like an asshat?
minus-squareglimse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoI already accomplished calling out the nonsensical idea that people who say they aren’t political think they’re smarter for it
On Twitter, you don’t say “I post shitty blanket statements in a way that makes me feel smarter than the strawman I invented to get mad at,” you do this. Isn’t that amazing?
She pretty accurately described at least one person I know. It’s not a strawman just because it’s not directly relevant to you.
Your one anecdote doesn’t prove her blanket statement true
Maybe it wasn’t a blanket statement. Maybe it was a statement of her experience meant for people who can understand. Like me.
It doesn’t disprove it either? What are you trying to accomplish here, besides look like an asshat?
I already accomplished calling out the nonsensical idea that people who say they aren’t political think they’re smarter for it