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The same thoughts I came in with, that education is needed now more than ever.
Which makes me wonder how you can be so smarmy with every sentence that you type. Your people skills leave much to be desired.
Ahh, we're back to twisting my words. I'll repeat them, so we can ensure that the context lives on: "I’m not saying that we should take away the right to vote from the uneducated. I’m saying we should put more focus into education."
You know, for posterity, since your brand of journalism leans into the yellow end of the spectrum.
It certainly is. Good thing I didn't say it. I said that we should make sure that we are educating people along with their rights. Giving people rights and hoping they know what to do with them is how we ended up with Trump in office.
Oh, let me see which logical fallacy this falls into. I'm thinking either Red Herring or Equivocation.
You seem to be the one drawing false equivocation and shielding yourself behind an unrelated argument because you know that you have no ground to stand on. But, please, tell me how I'm anti-LGBTQ+, again. I'm sure the second time you say it, it will come true.
Well, at least you seem to have a grasp on the lesson I am trying to teach you.
Is this red herring, again? I can't be sure, but I think you either don't understand what I said, or you don't understand ableism. Either way, that ain't me, chief.
No one is stopping you from making a triumphant return to the cesspool you crawled out of. You can ride a donkey in while they fan you with palm fronds.
So, there now. I've responded to every insipid argument you've made, and nothing you've said can be taken out of context. You are not the person you seem to think you are. You manipulate and twist words to serve your own ends, and people like you are the reason we have a lot of the issues we do. I'm gonna go ahead and block you now, so feel free to have the last word, I won't try to stop you.
I just read this whole argument and you are correct. This person seems to think talking about third parties honestly might hurt people's feelings and that somehow takes their rights away. Ri-fuckin-diculous
No self awareness on your projection here? Lol
You also said:
So you DO want to tell people who to vote for?
Ps Red Herring is a literary device. You mean strawman, I think.
Pss you may want to rethink your use of chief and yellow
Reddit and LSC was taken over by rightwingers, this is known. Can't go back bc everyone was banned for being leftwing. Literally, it was a scandal on a different small reddit that also got banned. Ironically, I was permabanned for advocating that people go vote. This was not a bannable position in 2016, when 60% of the sub was pro-Bernie.
Since you're blocking me anyway, I'm not going to take a lot of time with your comment. I will say that you misunderstood the example of a dogwhistle I was using regarding pink triangle - which I used because I thought you wouldn't be anti-queer and would notice it.
A good judge for ableism, I'd if you're saying something a Nazi would also say to justify gassing a prisoner. So lazy - yup. Incompetent -yup. Just has to be reactionary regarding someones abilities and hostile - hostility is an invitation to violence.
Here, try reading this again, the irony is really too funny:
Lol
Okay, block me, that was always allowed.