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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • The three paragraphs regarding the topic that I explicitly stated that I wasn’t engaging with you about?

    The focus on the addendum that you didn’t have to include but did anyway?

    You don’t seem to understand that everything you say in an argument is part of the argument. You done fucked up by letting your emotions get the best of you, and if you think that doesn’t impact your chances of successfully convincing another person about something, you’re just fooling yourself. Humans are emotional creatures, and whether you’re right is, at most, the same importance as maintaining the other person’s willingness to accept that you’re right. Yeah, that’s fucked up, emotions should have nothing to do with whether something is correct or incorrect. If you’re right, you’re right… Right?

    Case in point: you know I’m right, but you’re pissed off at me and don’t want to admit it (but maybe you will, now that I’ve called you out on it, just to spite me)


  • why are you so Hell-bent on promoting tyranny, anyway?

    Begging the question, asssumes the conclusion that the other person is intent on promoting tyranny.

    Why do you apparently so love the idea of The People not being able to defend themselves against The State?

    Strawman, misrepresents the other person’s argument.

    Why are you carrying water for the fascists by dogmatically pushing your sick, twisted, authoritarian misinterpretation of the law?

    Red herring, attempts to change the subject under debate from interpretation of the 2A to if the other person is supporting fascists.

    And the whole paragraph is a kind of ad hominem/appeal to emotion.

    Hey, I’m not here to say if you’re right or wrong about your interpretation of the 2A. I’m just here to tell you you’re being a fallacious asshole.

    Good luck convincing anyone of anything 😏



  • Right, and therein lays the rub: it’s open to interpretation, and things will get interpreted differently by different people in different places and times.

    Most medieval Christians believed that transgender people (not how they would have been labeled at that time, but they frequently didn’t have a specific word for such people, so we’ll make do) were created by God as the gender they identify as BUT were changed by the devil to the opposite gender in the womb. Gender transition was therefore putting things back they way that God intended and was fighting against the devil.

    Anti trans Christians today believe it’s the other way around.

    And this is why evidence based policy making is so important for a successful government.