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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Biden could pretty much guarantee a win tomorrow by announcing that it has been determined that Israel is indeed committing war crimes, followed by cutting support for them as per the Law when the recipient of help is committing such crimes, ideally followed by sanctions.

My favorite part is where no amount of evidence that the US electorate doesn't actually back this idea up doesn't stop Very Serious Leftists(tm) from parroting it over and over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Ah, an Ad Hominen: hadn't seen one of those in at least 5 minutes.

How about you address my point that Biden isn't willing to abdicate just one of his principles (support for Zionism, which is not even an especially moral one) to "Stop Trump" whilst sending peons of his tribe around demanding that millions abdicate their principles (and Humanist ones, which are about the most Moral principles one can have) and vote for him - somebody supporting an ongoing Genocide - to "Stop Trump".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, an Ad Hominen: hadn’t seen one of those in at least 5 minutes.

An Ad Hominem, clearly, is when you claim that the evidence doesn't back a talking point up, and the more you claim the evidence doesn't back a talking point up, the more Ad Hominem it is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

doesn’t stop Very Serious Leftists™ from parroting it over and over and over again.

Mind you the cartoon is already heavilly Red Scare "anybody that disagrees is a Communist" so I'm not suprised with the whole implying that I'm a "commie" for disagreing with your political tribe.

By the way, you're still refusing to answer the question of why Biden won't do himself what he demands from others...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

doesn’t stop Very Serious Leftists™ from parroting it over and over and over again.

Wait a minute - does 'ad hominem', to you, mean 'someone said something mean about me'?

Is that what you're saying?

By the way, you’re still refusing to address my point about why Biden won’t do what he demands from others…

About why he won't give up 'a principle' that is currently popular amongst the majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, to appeal to a minority of voters, who are not even particularly reliable voters at that?

Huh. I guess it's a mystery why a politician in a democratic system wouldn't do that.

I guess we'll never know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

All of them are similar to the general scheme of ad hominem argument, that is instead of dealing with the essence of someone's argument or trying to refute it, the interlocutor is attacking the character of the proponent of the argument and concluding that it is a sufficient reason to drop the initial argument.

Don't worry, sweetheart, I addressed your argument just fine; that you want to play tone police is on you. :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now you're ad-homineming me as if I was that other guy you were having a fight with. If your refutation is sound, why do you need to attack someone's character anyway?

[–] UrPartnerInCrime -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People who come into the middle of a fight and are surprised they got punched are the worse.

In case you can't read between the lines, that means you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised you can't tell people apart, not that you'll lash out any which way

[–] UrPartnerInCrime 0 points 6 months ago

You do know I'm not the original person you were fighting, right?

I just came in