• keegomatic@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    How would I know if it is or isn’t different today based on your comment? How am I supposed to answer that question? By asking that, you are asserting that it is different today. Yet you have given no numbers for what it is today for the same countries on that image.

    You know that, and you are trying to sidestep me now while accusing me of sidestepping. Why is that? You said in the beginning of your comment:

    Americans couldn’t find Iraq and Afghanistan on maps during those wars despite the latter lasting 20 Years and Americans being involved in them.

    You are saying here that those wars lasted a long time, and one lasted 20 years, and despite that, Americans couldn’t find those countries on maps during those wars. But the data is from the beginning of that time period. So after 20 years yes obviously the numbers would change. But that data doesn’t say that. That data is the starting point. A lazy reader might very easily think that data supported your point. Same as your previous comment I took issue with.

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      16 days ago

      That’s one way to pretend you never said I was being misleading about the year when I wasn’t, I suppose.

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        16 days ago

        Do you have a specific rebuke for something I said where you can logically point out where I’m wrong or are you just hand-waving?

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          16 days ago

          Yes, my specific rebuke is that I was not misleading when I showed what were clearly charts from 2006 since they said they were from 2006 at the bottom and then asking what is different today.

          I know you think we can move past that lie, but I’m not going to.