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Ok so you’re saying that you need to outright lie to get people to side with you?

That makes you sound like a politician, not a human rights advocate, but sure

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12 points

Burning Man called. They want their gigantic strawman back.

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How about you address the fact that you’re saying that telling the truth would distract from the point instead of pulling up distractions? Sounds like whataboutism to me

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Let me put it another way.

There’s 4,947,342.562 kinds of people in the world: those who obsess over needless numeral exactitude when faced with a rhetorical argument, and those who don’t.

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Hyperbole and hypotheticals aren’t “outright lies”

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Exact and false numbers given as proportions aren’t hyperbole, they’re misrepresentations, ie lies.

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“Say you’re in a room”

It’s literally at the start of the post. Anyone who has eyes and can read now understands this is hypothetical

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