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Rule of 400 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 12 points 1 year ago

Burning Man called. They want their gigantic strawman back.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year 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

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hyperbole and hypotheticals aren't "outright lies"

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 5 points 1 year 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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