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Okay, imagine someone is blasting your house with a high-pressure hose, breaking all its windows, flooding it, etc.
Your argument is to target the people who make plastic because that hose nozzle has plastic, rather than either convincing them to stop selling hoses to psychopaths or targeting the psychopath with the hose.
Again, the guy with the hose is just glad you're focusing your efforts elsewhere while he destroys everything you have.
liberals not make a silly metaphor to defend their failing position challenge: impossible
that metaphor is incoherent and doesn't really engage anything i said, so i'll pass
Nah, you just weren't able to comprehend it, either because you couldn't no matter what you did or because you refused to try.
I do find that lemmy.ml tankies tend to refuse to think. They're intelligent when they bother, including when they're not busy propagandizing themselves or others.
Even if the person "wasn't able to comprehend" your analogy made from your supreme intellect, that means it failed as an analogy. The point of the analogy is to put an argument into a more understandable perspective. If it doesn't do that, it is, by the nature of it's purpose, a bad analogy.
A significant exaggeration to malign me as arrogant/elitist. It's like you ignored the entire last sentence of my comment. Classic tankie BS.
Enjoy the block.
and now "liberals not pretend people refusing to accept my nonsense argument are just unintelligent challenge: even more impossible"