• Sybil@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I was young once too

    this is ad hominem. what i’m saying is true or false regardless of how old i am. also, you don’t know how old i am. and on the internet, no one knows you’re a dog: you could be 12 years old for all i know.

    this statement is pure sophistry. it’s disgusting rhetoric, and you should be ashamed.

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      7 months ago

      It’s not ad hominem. I’m not saying you’re wrong because this is your first election, I’m saying I can tell this is your first election because voting third party is incredibly naive. If this isn’t your first election, then you should know better.

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          7 months ago

          No, I’m attacking what you said by calling it naive. I never once intimated that your belief was wrong because you were young. I also think that anyone above the age of 22 who doesn’t vote Biden is also wrong. It has nothing to do with age.

          I was simply giving you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you’d never been burned by voting third party before. Am I wrong to do that? Are you actually stupid, and not naive?

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            7 months ago

            my identity has nothing to do with what I’m saying. it’s an ad hominem and you should be ashamed.

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              7 months ago

              Like I already said, your identity isn’t what makes the decision to let Trump win any more or less wrong. This being your first election would just make it a much more understandable and forgivable mistake. If this isn’t your first time abstaining from voting, then it’s a much less forgivable mistake.