Your comment seemed like a non-sequitur, but mostly because the title didn’t seem to be literal to me and more of a statement on corruption. Normally, when people make what I believe to be non-sequiturs, it’s because there’s an additional point they’re trying to make that would make that non-sequitur click into place.
I can see how you read the title like that, I might have done the same but I’ve heard this exact misconception a lot from YouTube and Reddit. Not sure where it originates, but a lot of people seem to think it’s literally true.
That is…scary. Yeah I’m all for calling our current system of governance a keptocracy or make comparisons about “buying a ticket to congress”, but if those statements are being taken literally then getting us to a place where those aren’t just little quips and more of a reality is going to be easier than I thought.
Your comment seemed like a non-sequitur, but mostly because the title didn’t seem to be literal to me and more of a statement on corruption. Normally, when people make what I believe to be non-sequiturs, it’s because there’s an additional point they’re trying to make that would make that non-sequitur click into place.
I appreciate the clarity.
I can see how you read the title like that, I might have done the same but I’ve heard this exact misconception a lot from YouTube and Reddit. Not sure where it originates, but a lot of people seem to think it’s literally true.
That is…scary. Yeah I’m all for calling our current system of governance a keptocracy or make comparisons about “buying a ticket to congress”, but if those statements are being taken literally then getting us to a place where those aren’t just little quips and more of a reality is going to be easier than I thought.
That only makes it worse. “I only lied about bad thing X being Y because I want to attach bad connotations to Y”.