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[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait he gets 20 years and some walk in 4?

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The ones who walk in 4 are rich, have a good lawyer, or are women.

[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

Some even become dictators of “democracies.”

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

What does battlefield teen mean? Is that the town name?

[–] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Battlefield is the place, teen is the time of a persons life when they are bw 13 and 19.

Short for the word teenager. Those numbers all end with 'teen'

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 25 points 4 weeks ago

I love that you're explaining 'teen' means teenager, while using 'bw' to mean between, a much less common abbreviation

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

lol thank you for answering my question, ALL of my question

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Accurate username, the petty auntie.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net -2 points 4 weeks ago

Christ, cw please!

[+] qualia@lemmy.world -16 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

That's 99% an ad hominem. Not defending the r*pist or his mom, just saying that skipping this sorta low-hanging whataboutism has a better chance of getting people to come to the table on public spending. If OP wasn't left-handed they'd know that.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago

I totally agree that ad hominem is counterproductive. I'm glad even people of limited intelligence like you can see that.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It is a comparison, because it has the same reason.

Comparisons are valid, even if they play close to the other person.

Ad hominem is just attacking a person without any valid arguments.

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

No. Ad hominem would have been "why should we listen to you? You raised a rapist." Very different.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, you're a pedophile from the future sent back to traumatize all the people who eventually save earth from aliens by raping them¹ when they're¹ young children so their¹ lives take different courses and humanity is harvested for protein by aliens! Nobody listen to them²!

¹the future heroes. Not the aliens.

²the person I'm replying to. Absolutely listen to the people they're² trying to traumatize, or youll have your proteins harvested.

[–] WallsToTheBalls@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 4 weeks ago

You can say the word rapist

[–] Daikeyedunce34@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean it’s not really an adhom. An adhominem implies attacking a person rather than argument. This is insulting a person for their family (assuming she probably defended him) and pointing to that insult as an example of investing in society.

[–] Prancingpotato@lemmy.world 0 points 4 weeks ago

Eh, to be really pedantic, ad hominem is more when you ça point how a person contradict himself in his reasoning.(The coherence of their arguments) Attacking the person itself and not their argument or how they use them is ad personam

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

An anthropology/sociology dual-doctrate program would get the point across much better. I'm not sure twitter is really suited for that, and I usually lose people by sentence 3. Sometimes a pithy own serves the purposes of communicating to your public audience much better, especially when the person you're responding but not necessarily talking to is not the sort to communicate in good faith.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

it's an argument AND a ad hominem

why should we pay for his prison sentence, why isn't he paying it himself?

like she paid her student loans?

it's ok for the public to pay to feed and house her son but not ok for the public to pay dor education?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an argument and an insult.

An actual Ad hominem debate tactic implies it's a distraction from making an actual argument by trying to discredit the person who you're arguing against/or their source.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

i love that we are in agreement during this conversation, and are getting more and more precise and correct as we go on.

those are my favourite conversations.