• protist@mander.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    “How willing have you been to go and put your life on the line to stop these atrocities?”

    Literally puts life on line to help others

    “Why are you so stupid that you don’t understand my rhetorical device?”

    You could just say “good work” and move on rather than debase yourself like this

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      3 hours ago

      Your framing is bizarre to me, as it was never meant as a directed/individualistic comment. The presence of outliers doesn’t really impact the point I had been making, which is what I had to re-iterate once someone declared themself an outlier and pretended like that’d somehow be material.

      Like if you make a post saying “People are struggling to afford groceries these days”, and someone responds back saying “I can afford groceries”, it doesn’t really change the validity of that first statement. It’s just that the person responding back doesn’t understand the context or something.

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        2 hours ago

        it was never meant as a directed/individualistic comment

        You should probably have said something like “my bad” and explained yourself then, rather than insult people who read your words and all took the same thing away from them. Your intentions are meaningless when your words don’t explain them