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if you are a judge and you are brought evidence of a serial killer murdering people, and instead of convicting them you let them go free, it is your fault if they murder more people. You did nothing to stop them when you were handed the chance to
Bad analogy. That assumes that they caught them doing this before and allowed it to continue. Roe v Wade was the door that was left unlocked.
See, the difference is that my analogy actually makes sense to the subject being discussed, yours creates an entirely different scenario that is easier for you to argue.
It’s called a straw man.
Your analogy doesn’t make sense.
I expected it wouldn’t from your perspective.
You have no idea what my perspective is. This is the first time we have interacted.
You’re in defense of shifting the blame for the results of what conservatives do on to the democrats.
That’s all I need to know.
All I said was your analogy didn’t make sense.
Sounds like a you problem.
And that may very well be the case but instead of explaining it you immediately got mad at me for shit I did not do.
Bad analogy. That assumes that they caught them doing this before and allowed it to continue. Roe v Wade was the door that was left unlocked.
See, the difference is that my analogy actually makes sense to the subject being discussed, yours creates an entirely different scenario that is easier for you to argue.
It’s called a straw man.
We did catch them. That's literally what the post is about, we saw all the horrible things trump did in his first term, we got the chance to stop him in 2020, but nobody did anything. And now hes doing even more horrible things what a fucking surprise
And you can guarantee that third party candidates would have done differently?
I never said they would have. We need to hold people accountable regardless of party, that is the only way to achieve change
On that we can agree.