• lobut@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    Agreed. Both of the parties are gaslighting the public and the Republicans are MUCH better at it than the DNC are.

    okay …

    <looks at post>

    The Democrats are the undisputed masters of gaslighting

    hmm …

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      I didn’t come up with the post title, and it was close enough to the point even if it wasn’t LITERALLY true AKA thematically accurate hyperbole 🤷

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        4 days ago

        Why didn’t you change it? It’s not a news article.

        it was close enough to the point

        GOP lie so much more than the Dems it’s absolutely unreal

        even if it wasn’t […] thematically accurate hyperbole

        … k

        thanks for the downvote by the way shows your maturity

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          GOP, there’s a reason they are called gaslighting, obstruct and project. Weird how leftist don’t even blame them for anything, it’s almost like they Talk like them

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          Why didn’t you change it?

          Because it wasn’t wrong about the most important fact, that they gaslight a lot. The hyperbole of calling them the “masters” of it is sometimes deliberately used (though not by me) to mean that they do it a lot, and I figured that all but the nittiest of pickers would get that either intuitively or after considering it briefly.

          Congrats on being part of that elite, I guess 🤷

          GOP lie so much more than the Dems it’s absolutely unreal

          Which is itself hyperbole. While the GOP lie more often (and a LOT more blatantly), the difference in frequency isn’t anywhere near as big as it’s commonly believed to be by most non-fascists.

          thanks for the downvote by the way shows your maturity

          There’s nothing immature about registering my disapproval of lazy and illogical nitpicking used to distract from valid and important points.

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            Which is itself hyperbole. While the GOP lie more often (and a LOT more blatantly), the difference in frequency isn’t anywhere near as big as it’s commonly believed to be by most non-fascists.

            I remember this old nugget: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/24/trumps-false-or-misleading-claims-total-30573-over-four-years/

            To be clear, this is unfalsifiable we have no idea how many “is commonly believed to be” by non-fascists.

            There’s nothing immature about registering my disapproval of lazy and illogical nitpicking used to distract from valid and important points.

            It’s not nitpicking, there’s a context in which you’re using hyperbole and the direct obvious comparison to be made is the GOP whom are in charge and have power and lie constantly and more often. In using hyperbole, you’re diminishing the lies by the GOP either intentionally or not.

            In terms of distracting from valid points. I would say you’re doing that by attacking the minority party by letting the majority GOP keep going with ICE and their overseas wars.