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onkyo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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The analogies democrats use to defend genocide are getting more and more unhinged

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The analogies democrats use to defend genocide are getting more and more unhinged

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      both picked the wrong bus, sad

  • DengistDonnieDarko [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    This bus is going in the opposite direction of where I’m trying to go. Why would I board the bus???

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      In fact, it could easily be argued that it would be in your best interest to do everything in your power to stop the bus

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    • Darth_Reagan [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      This is why analogies are useless as arguments

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        Analogies are pretty great as arguments, in my experience. Bad analogies are obviously bad. And you can’t use them against redditors because their answer is always “ArE You rEAlLy coMpARInG thoSe TWo tHiNGs?” Like, yes, that’s the point of an analogy.

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          I find they are easy to subvert to whatever they want, they’re good for explaining, but not arguing.

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      That’s when the people throw the bus driver onto the street and take the bus where people actually want to go.

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      and it’s cattle wagons, but sure, let’s get on board!

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    I’d rather walk, thanks.

    nayuta-peace

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      sicko-biker

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      power-stride

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    Cool so I can vote PSL?

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      Right? This analogy is bad because there’s no room in it for “I picked this bus and then my bus lost so now I am just sitting here sulking.”

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      Nononono see taking that bus is going to make the uh other bad bus win

      I’m so tired of stupid lib analogies trying to liken politics to contrived interpersonal situations

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    there are only two buses. both buses are going to hell! and you better get on one of them or else the other bus will win the bus contest and be declared the king of all the buses.

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      It’s more a single trolley line with a lot of people tied to tracks at this point.

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        And you have a lever that changes the trolleys color from red to blue. And you would dare not to pull it?!

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    Me taking a bus straight to a concentration camp: “well, what are you going to do? I couldn’t wait for THE ONE!”

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    NONE OF THE PEOPLE SAYING THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN ON A BUS OR ANY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN 30 YEARS

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    Why are liberals obsessed with using fanciful analogies when they could simply discuss the real things themselves? (I know why)

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      real things? are you a goddamn commie?

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    I Drive the Bus That is Running Over Thousands of Palestinians Every Day. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing:

    In this essay, I will-

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    I can respect that. So I’m voting PSL . Critical support to Jill Stein though. I’ve loved her since I was a kid.

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    Telling this to the kids getting hit with rubber bullets in a state run by a liberal governor in a city led by a liberal mayor.

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    Voting isn’t marriage - it’s public transport.

    • under constant destruction in amerikkka
    • has hostile architecture meant to make doing it as uncomfortable as possible
    • the mayor is going to send in the national guard to make sure citizens must pay to do it and can’t do it for free
    • melon husk is enacting a worse alternative by burying cars underground to make sure no one can do it conveniently
    • the infrastructure is rotting, causing ecological disasters
    • technically pete is in charge of it but he won’t do anything about the system except let it continue to rot
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    No matter how i try to plan my route online it takes me through the seventh circle of hell??

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    Not getting on the bus to Auschwitz, sorry not sorry

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