• adeoxymus@lemmy.world
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      Calm down, you could have just said “yes the left should be worried but no need to panic” and all would be well.

      • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I’m not calming down. This dumb shit happens just far too often lately. I have no idea, why people insinuate things others never said and burn that strawman down, but I’m getting too tired and more and more pissed off by it, to the point where I wonder if it’s even worth it or I should rather stop discussing.

        Shit’s annoying AF.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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          You should stop discussing because what you call a straw man is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of your comment. If you don’t want it to be open to interpretation, you should be more clear, rather than get mad at people taking one of the reasonable interpretations. An additional sentence at the end of that comment like “That said, the left should be worried.” would likely have been enough.

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            About as reasonable an interpretation as asking you if you mean humans shouldn’t ever feel emotions by saying “Calm down”.

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      I really start to hate these reports. Weekly updates on the Sonntagsfrage are utterly lacking substance, fearmongering (to left leaning people) and reassurance (to AfD voters). Everything we do not need.

      There?

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        So in your stupid brain “Not A” is automatically and without any alternatives to equivocate with “the utterly illogical opposite to A”?

        How on earth is “push the breaks on fearmongering” equal to “Na, don’t worry”???

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          • Fear mongering is making people worried.
          • You are against this report for doing this to leftists, hence you are against making leftist people worried.

          ?

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            You can be against news fearmongering a certain group and also believe the fear this group has is valid. In this case, the leftist could for example be already worried by the actual situation and not because of the fearmongering.

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            No for fucks sake. Fearmongering is the irrational exaggeration of a worrisome situation to a degree that incites fear (hence the term fearmongering) and panic.

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              So what irrational fears are promoted about the AdF getting into power and achieving greater public support?

              Or is it irrational to think the most popular party in Germany could ever win?

              Very confusing, I’m so stupid after all.

        • Gollum@feddit.org
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          Bitte achte auf deine Ausdrucksweise, solche Gossensprache wollen wir hier nicht.