jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 12 days agoRight-Wingers Plan to Make it Difficult for Democrats to Replace Bidenwww.rollingstone.comexternal-linkmessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1128arrow-down121cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·11 days agoWe have never been a pure democracy so this is just as stupid and pointless as I said. You’re arguing with an imaginary point of view.
minus-squareknightly@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-211 days ago“We’ve never been a pure democracy” sure sounds like “No True Scottsman” to me. More like oligopoly, than any kind of democracy, really. But hey, don’t listen to me. I didn’t moderate my rhetoric to your preferred tone while casting aspersions at the Holy Democracy of America. XD
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·11 days ago sure sounds like “No True Scottsman” You should learn what that means before you use it moderate my rhetoric to your preferred tone That’s what we call just telling the truth now? Cool
minus-squareTokenBoomer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-211 days agoNo True Scotsman, for posterity. The modification is signalled by the use of non-substantive rhetoric such as “true”, “pure”, “genuine”, “authentic”, “real”, etc.
minus-squareTrickDacy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 days agoI think you responded to the wrong person
We have never been a pure democracy so this is just as stupid and pointless as I said. You’re arguing with an imaginary point of view.
“We’ve never been a pure democracy” sure sounds like “No True Scottsman” to me. More like oligopoly, than any kind of democracy, really.
But hey, don’t listen to me. I didn’t moderate my rhetoric to your preferred tone while casting aspersions at the Holy Democracy of America. XD
You should learn what that means before you use it
That’s what we call just telling the truth now? Cool
No True Scotsman, for posterity.
I think you responded to the wrong person
They did not.
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