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by livestyle 2666 days ago
“Ad hominem is a notoriously weak logical argument. And is usually used to distract the focus of a discussion - to move it from an indefensible point and to attack the opponent."

~ Lord Aquitainus Attis

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It's not an ad hominem to note past history of a group that will be moderating a public forum when they have a demonstrable poor track record of moderating public fora.

Unless something changes relative to the user ecosystem Gab has attracted in the past, I predict I'll be blackholing their domains on every machine I personally administer because nobody in my family needs to be exposed to that nonsense.

Nobody made a "logical argument", it's a fact or opinion.
It is entirely appropriate to attack literal self-claimed Nazis.
Libel much?