• Jhex@lemmy.world
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    again, so you want to see all the boxes ticked before you call a spade a spade?.. not a great strategy but you do you

    I have yet to see the Police arresting people for being gay in public.

    No, but there is this:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vrjkev802o

    I have yet to see the BBC be handed notes live on air and completely change the narrative around an ongoing war.

    No, but there is this:

    https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/64534/how-the-government-captured-the-bbc

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      1. Palestine Action is a terror group. They committed violent terror acts against the UK and got designated as such in response. It doesn’t matter if you’re a senile 83 year old woman, it’s still illegal to support a terror group.

      2. Wtf is that “prospect magazine” link? Looks like some weird anti-jew conspiracy website. I really hope you don’t get your news from places like that.

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      And so what’s your threshold for calling a spade a spade? Is a trowel a spade? Is a spoon a spade? Is a flat bit of wood a spade?

      Do you understand the concept of neuance or shades of grey or do you doggedly stick to black and white?

      Must be blissfull to see the world with strict category boundaries and be willingly ignorant of anything on a spectrum that doesn’t fit into your nice and neat categories.

      Not my thing, but you do you boo.

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        Dude my point is as follows:

        • there is an exaggerated claim on the table
        • you can call it hyperbole, as it is, maybe even criticize it, and then move on a discuss the merits it stands on

        Instead, you call it hyperbole and proceed to explain why it’s hyperbole and refuse to discuss any merit. That is just being pedantic.

        OP: “so a priest and a rabbi walk into a bar”

        You: “no, I refuse to hear the joke because it’s extremely unlikely religious people of different denominations drink together at bars”

        Do you understand the concept of neuance or shades of grey or do you doggedly stick to black and white?

        I do, which is why, I understand calling the UK worse than Russia is hyperbole but still get the gist of the comment

        Must be blissfull to see the world with strict category boundaries…

        Are you talking about yourself? refusing to even acknowledge the gist of the OP comment because it is hyperbole and not a check list like the one you provided?