• brain_in_a_box [he/him]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    3310 months ago

    If their post is short, accuse them of not engaging properly.

    If their post is long, accuse them of gish gallop.

    • PatFusty
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      610 months ago

      Did i say they didnt engage properly? Lol what are you even saying

    • @BigNote@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      110 months ago

      Said no one. Except you. You either know what a Gish gallop is, or you don’t. A long comment is not necessarily a Gish gallop. In this case the charge is entirely accurate.

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        310 months ago

        Oh spare me, we both know full well that there was no long comment they could have posted that wouldn’t have been called gish gallop.

        • @BigNote@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          110 months ago

          As if it’s somehow impossible to make a long comment in support of a single argument? As if Gish galloping comments don’t actually exist? Do I follow your logic properly? What part about this do I not understand?

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            310 months ago

            Accusations of gish gallop are almost always just a bad faith way of dismissing an argument without bothering to address it.

            • @BigNote@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              110 months ago

              What argument? 20+ arguments were made. Which one am I meant to address?

              If I focus on one you’ll jump on me for not addressing the 19 others, which is why it’s a bullshit tactic.

              • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                210 months ago

                Their argument was that so called Western socialists are mostly just Western chauvinists who make their determination on what movements are “real socialists” based on how closely they align, racially and culturally, to the West.

                There, that’s their argument.