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by bigstrat2003 128 days ago
No, the point is valid. The reason milch is saying "it's only two words what's your problem" isn't because it's only two words, it's because they are expressing a message he finds to be acceptable. The parent poster was attempting to point that out by showing there are "two words" messages he wouldn't support.
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boston_clone 128 days ago
Advocating for the removal of an abusive government agency that has been around for only a handful of years is very fucking different from professing white supremacist views.

Trying to compare those because "they're only two words!" is textbook false equivalence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence#Examples

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milch 128 days ago
The poster I replied to made an over exaggerated statement about the prominence of these two words, which I found hilarious, in the same way a teenager saying "I am LITERALLY DYING right now" after the barista spelled their name wrong on their coffee order would be hilarious. This was a very slight inconvenience to the poster's day (at best) that they could have dropped after deciding they don't care about events happening in a country they don't live in.
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