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"Goon crazy style" is slang for watching porn. It also happens to be a hyperbole, since watching porn clearly isn't as bad as jerking yourself to a medical condition.

What should the non-hyperbolic version of "let’s compare dropping bombs to reading about the war." (assuming that's the sentence) have been?

To me it appears that you tried making a comparison of VerilyFemme's comment under a wrong assumption (eg. that it was about public masturbation), and now are trying to cover it up by calling it a hyperbole.

Anyway, as you stated I'm here to laugh, and not to write reports about misunderstandings taken to the next level.

The OPs' sentence? Yes clearly.

Yours? I'm not entirely convinced. Or at least it's not only a hyperbole, given your other comments in this thread.

The only "someone" I've seen talking about public masturbation is you. :/ The "Goon it crazy" was clearly a hyperbole, given the this posts' context.

And I'm not too surprised about the reaction. While the OP (from Bluesky, not you) definitely made a brand new sentence, the take is not particularly bright.

Your own example would be more akin to watching a documentary vs reading about it. No one actually dies by you doing so.

Might want to boot up warpinator myself, but from their website:

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Soviets and the USA*

I know neither Mia nor Rimu, so I have little prejudice against either.

Rimu clearly went overboard in the snippet, there's no reeling that in anymore. He does sound very tired, like he's been slighted more than once, but that was a whack example to come swinging with out of context.

That said, I cannot label Mia's first comment as purely good faith either. If this Rimu is a well known personality with well known peeves, and Mia was aware of this, then it would be more akin to trolling or rage-baiting. Otherwise it would simply be ignorant or unlucky.

Either way, I've known neither till before this post, so I'm not gonna pretend I know what's going on in a broader sense, nor even be as audacious as to pretend to know what's going on in their heads.

Sorry, I understood it as an argument with a claim. Eg. "anyone who asks for change while providing any source of information, regardless of how flawed it is or whether the person in question even represents those whom this change might affect, is a decent person". Claiming that "anyone who calls out other people doing so, even if the other did it in bad faith," must be a fascist.

That said, English isn't my first language, so I might very well have used fallacy wrong.

In that case, let me be a 'decent person' and link to a source which explains why you should change your choice of words.

Do note that I do not actually agree with the above, but want to point out the fallacy of your latter statement. Also, I'm not sure I'd trust the words from a website using a slur in their name, regardless of how it is meant to be interpreted.

VPN is another case of an appropriated and bastardized term, much like hacker, crypto, AI, etc.

The term has been used wrong for so long by so many that most people now know VPN as nothing but a glorified proxy with some security, which is a rather niche use for the technology as a whole.

Might be time to find a new term for Virtual Private Networks too, so it doesn't get mixed up or get bad rep because of its other meaning.

Spoiler, please!