• Ajen
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    Don’t be obtuse, he was obviously being hyperbolic.

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      But doesn’t that hyperbole get in the way of a desire for Left Unity? If someone says “Harris and Trump serve similar interests” and someone interprets that as “Trump is better than Harris, actually,” that fundamentally changes the point the person was making. Hyperbole is only useful as long as the quantitative change in a claim doesn’t change the fundamental equation, if it does, it becomes strawmanning.

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            I think that would be a great use of hyperbole, actually. The venn diagram is hilariously accurate, and I think you’re being obnoxious.

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                How can you come to that conclusion without knowing my honest opinion of leftists?

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                  How can the original commenter come to their conclusion without knowing the opinions of Leftists?

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                    22 hours ago

                    They were making a joke. Were you?

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                  22 hours ago

                  Ha, looks like we’ve been brigaded by beehaw and .ml.

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                  In what manner? Questioning the existence of DPRK worshippers and those preferring Trump to Harris among Marxists?