• Pman@lemmy.org
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    12 hours ago

    First of all, how do you not have diabetes drinking that much Kool-Aid? Second if a serial rapist rapes a serial killer who is the good guy between the two of them? Trump claims to have very different support numbers than reality shows and in a dictatorship being publicly against the regime is a great way to accidentally fall out of a window down and onto a bunch of bullets or somehow get polonium poisoning for some reason. A whataboutism is a great way to distract from the issues at hand but just because the US has a bunch of issues with democracy doesn’t mean china doesn’t have issues, and denying them with state propaganda (an appeal to authority) with arguable levels of factuality doesn’t negate the issue.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      You’re arguing against numbers published by Harvard. None of what I said is “Kool-Aid.” Secondly, using publicly funded information is not an “appeal to authority,” saying someone knows xyz because they are a specialist in something is an appeal to authority (and that isn’t a fallacy).