• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    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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          1 day ago

          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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              1 day ago

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

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                1 day ago

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

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                  1 day ago

                  They were making a joke. Were you?

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                1 day ago

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

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                1 day ago

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