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Rule of 400 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Burning Man called. They want their gigantic strawman back.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hyperbole and hypotheticals aren't "outright lies"

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

"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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