• EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I said “the internet”… And now you’re demanding I prove…

    I asked you to prove your claims. (if you can’t, of course, nobody should believe them). Not something unrelated. But thanks for the

    Red Herring

    red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question.[1] It may be either a logical fallacyor a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion. A red herring may be used intentionally, as in mystery fiction or as part of rhetorical strategies (e.g., in politics), or may be used in argumentation inadvertently.[2]

    Why don’t you just answer the question?

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      4 months ago

      How can you organize voters with a district like the Texas 33rd?

      I said “the internet”…

      That was “my claim”.

      That “the Internet” is how you would organize people in a sprawling district because that doesn’t rely on geography and in person meetings. It’s also just how you do shit now.

      Then you asked me:

      Let’s see evidence of “the internet” solving extreme gerrymandering

      And acting that I claimed it could. When I never said that because I was answering a completely different question.

      The only way that makes sense, is if you dont know what me or that other person was talking about.

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        4 months ago

        That was “my claim”.

        Backed up with nothing but excuses and self-serving bullshit. You have zero evidence to back up your “claims” …

        Blaming me for calling you out and then blaming both me and others for your own actions and their consequences is textbook projection.

        Facing the consequences of your actions is not a state of victimhood