• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    11 days ago

    “Aha! I knew China’s horrors were all a pack of lies!”

    Did I say that? I am confused by your response.

    Did you just make this quote up?

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      11 days ago

      I mean you did refer to “fear mongering” about it. I guess it sort of hinges on what you would classify as fear mongering… what you do think about Uyghur re-education? That might shed some light on whether or not you said that.

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        11 days ago

        Don’t put words in my mouth to make your rebuttal seem stronger.

        That might shed some light on whether or not you said that.

        Read my words? Stop rehashing a script that doesn’t fit what I am saying with lazy accusation, it is a waste of everyone’s time.

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            11 days ago

            How? You haven’t added anything of meaning to this conversation other than a lazy attempt to catch me as a tankie or something and worse your responses feel tailored to deflect conversation away from the subject of the article you are commenting on.

            The plot can’t thicken when your words have so little substance to work off of.

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              a lazy attempt to catch me as a tankie or something

              All I did was ask your take on a geopolitical issue that’s really not all that complicated. It’s like asking someone “How do you feel about underage prostitution” and their answer is “Stop asking irrelevant questions! It’s a waste of everyone’s time!”

              Honestly if you’d said “obviously genocide is horrible whoever is doing it, I was talking about Peter Navarro and friends” then that would have been the end of it. I probably would have apologized about my unfair mischaracterization, because there is a certain definition of “fear mongering” for which I think you’re 100% right in what you’re saying. However… that’s not what you said.

              You still have plenty of time to answer, of course.

              your responses feel tailored to deflect conversation away from the subject of the article you are commenting on.

              You’re the one that changed the subject away from the article topic. I responded on-topic to what you said, you just didn’t like what I had to say.

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                11 days ago

                You established the basis of your argument by strawmanning me, what on earth are you on about?

                China is a massive authoritarian empire, stop trying to flatten critique of your positions and pin hyperbolic things to me so you don’t have to respond with your critical thinking skills.

                If you can’t tell the difference between my words and the words of an empty minded “leftist” you need to take a break from this website.

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                  11 days ago

                  I’m on about clarifying what exactly you mean by “fear mongering.” That is literally the crux of the discussion you decided to open, and a good opportunity to expand more on what you’re trying to say.

                  Like I said before, you might be 100% right that it was a strawman. But the fact that you keep so forcefully refusing to clarify, makes me think that probably it was not. Feel free to prove me wrong if you would like to.

                  I’ve learned that just asking simple direct questions is pure kryptonite to a particular type of Lemmy poster, and I’m here for it lol.

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                    Like I said before, you might be 100% right that it was a strawman. But the fact that you keep so forcefully refusing to clarify, makes me think that probably it was not. Feel free to prove me wrong if you would like to.

                    You just openly admitted to utilizing a strawman argument and yet you are still demanding I respond to your strawman framing of this argument?