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minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoYou’ll change your stance that it can’t happen because it has never happened when it has happened? How brave! 🙄
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·3 days agoWhy do you think I’m trying to be brave? I’m simply saying if it happens I’ll acknowledge it Why is that a bad thing for you?
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down4·edit-23 days agoMy criticism was of you equating “hasn’t happened” with “can’t happen”. “Admitting” that you were wrong after the fact is useless in that context and insisting on your fallacy until then is WORSE than useless.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·3 days agoSo you’re just being an asshole. Got it.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·3 days ago So you’re just being an asshole Nope, that’s you. I’m the one pointing it out.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·edit-23 days agoI’m what way exactly? By pointing out something never happened? Please.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·3 days agoFor the third and last time: by equating “hasn’t happened” with “can’t happen”, thereby pissing in the cereal of anyone who wants to believe that Mamdani might actually be the real deal.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down7·3 days agoReality does suck.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoAgain, “your pessimistic expectations” ≠ “inescapable reality”.
minus-squareHertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·3 days agoIt’s about the implications. Your response comes across as condescending.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·3 days agoTo the less experienced, i guess it could.
You’ll change your stance that it can’t happen because it has never happened when it has happened?
How brave! 🙄
Why do you think I’m trying to be brave? I’m simply saying if it happens I’ll acknowledge it Why is that a bad thing for you?
My criticism was of you equating “hasn’t happened” with “can’t happen”.
“Admitting” that you were wrong after the fact is useless in that context and insisting on your fallacy until then is WORSE than useless.
So you’re just being an asshole. Got it.
They weren’t though…?
Nope, that’s you. I’m the one pointing it out.
I’m what way exactly? By pointing out something never happened? Please.
For the third and last time: by equating “hasn’t happened” with “can’t happen”, thereby pissing in the cereal of anyone who wants to believe that Mamdani might actually be the real deal.
Reality does suck.
Again, “your pessimistic expectations” ≠ “inescapable reality”.
It’s about the implications. Your response comes across as condescending.
To the less experienced, i guess it could.