@[email protected]M to [email protected] • 6 months agoCalifornia is about to tax guns more like alcohol and tobacco − and that could put a dent in gun violencetheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square236arrow-up1518arrow-down136
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-9•6 months agoIf I suspected you might be actually conversing in good faith, I’d expend the effort. But I’ve seen this kind of rhetorical trap before. It’s not quite sealioning, but similar.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•6 months agoYet you’ll expend the effort to explain why you won’t expend any effort to make an actual point- lol. I’m starting to think maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about at all ;)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•6 months agoBig difference between saying “ha I’m not falling for that” and finding sources. The former requires little effort.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•6 months agoYeah- makes it clear you’re just driven by emotion and don’t have any reasoned points to make.
If I suspected you might be actually conversing in good faith, I’d expend the effort. But I’ve seen this kind of rhetorical trap before. It’s not quite sealioning, but similar.
Yet you’ll expend the effort to explain why you won’t expend any effort to make an actual point- lol.
I’m starting to think maybe you don’t know what you’re talking about at all ;)
Big difference between saying “ha I’m not falling for that” and finding sources. The former requires little effort.
Yeah- makes it clear you’re just driven by emotion and don’t have any reasoned points to make.
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Yep- just like that.