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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months ago"Our glorious leaders did everything perfectly like always! Let’s blame abstract concepts, vague and unsolvable societal problems, and the people who warned us that this could happen!" - Ridiculously obtuse Neoliberals on Lemmy
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoA strawman is what I was replying to. I’m not the dipshit with a comprehension problem here.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoCorrect. Good thing that my comment was a hyperbolic denunciation of a clear pattern of actual attitudes and behaviors rather than a blame shifting strawman like the one I was replying to.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoI’m gonna refer back to my earlier comment
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoAnd you’re thus continuing to be wrong. Deliberate and obvious hyperbole to emphasize a valid point is NOT a strawman, nor is it equivalent.
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoYou think if you can justify a strawman, it isn’t one. That’s not how it works.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months ago…are you going for a record in hypocrisy and stubborn ignorance or something? What you just said was a strawman in defense of a categorically false claim.
"Our glorious leaders did everything perfectly like always! Let’s blame abstract concepts, vague and unsolvable societal problems, and the people who warned us that this could happen!" - Ridiculously obtuse Neoliberals on Lemmy
“What’s a strawman?”
L2read dipshit
A strawman is what I was replying to. I’m not the dipshit with a comprehension problem here.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
Correct. Good thing that my comment was a hyperbolic denunciation of a clear pattern of actual attitudes and behaviors rather than a blame shifting strawman like the one I was replying to.
I’m gonna refer back to my earlier comment
And you’re thus continuing to be wrong.
Deliberate and obvious hyperbole to emphasize a valid point is NOT a strawman, nor is it equivalent.
You think if you can justify a strawman, it isn’t one.
That’s not how it works.
…are you going for a record in hypocrisy and stubborn ignorance or something?
What you just said was a strawman in defense of a categorically false claim.