• leftytighty@slrpnk.net
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    20 hours ago

    granted, I should have given more thought to my hyperbolic hypothetical.

    point being I dread to think what “lesser evil” we’re looking at when the time comes

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      17 hours ago

      No you really shouldn’t have to be. They are responding in bad faith and distracting from the point of a serious conversation by um actuallying the fake sci-fi of a hypothetical.

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        17 hours ago

        out of the principle of charity I chalked it up to the type of person who fixates on the wrong thing but I suspect you’re right

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          17 hours ago

          I usually just blame how autistic Lemmy is. Unironically, the amount of neurodivergent people here is huge and a common trait is focusing on the wrong fuckin details, especially with hypotheticals