• balderdash@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I’ll forgive you for strawmanning my position because I haven’t fully articulated it. Of course capitalism is connected to every area of our everyday lives.

    But, unpopular opinion incoming, people go out of their way to bring up capitalism in every thread and it gets old fast. You could have a thread on !AskLemmy about how hard it is to be a dog-walker, and there will be comments saying how OP wouldn’t need to be a dog walker if it weren’t for capitalism! Whether you think that’s true or not is beside the point; this corner of the internet is always beating the dead horse called “capitalism bad”.

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      1 year ago

      FYI, restating your argument precisely and without changing context isn’t “strawmanning.”

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        Hmm, we may be talking past each other. I’m not disagreeing with OP’s point that capitalism is a problem or even a problem for the internet. I’m saying that it gets brought up so often that its tiring. That’s where the strawman comes in: they were arguing against a position that I didn’t hold.

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          I took issue with your claim that this was “a thread that has nothing to do with economics or politics.” That’s clearly untrue, regardless of how “tiring” it is for you.

          Also, by the way, what’s happening now is not that we’re talking past each other, but rather that you’re backpedaling to try to save face.

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            1 year ago

            Nah, I think I would know if I had changed positions. Even if you read my original comment, I’m complaining about how often capitalism is brought up when it doesn’t need to be. But I’m not going to try to convince you because clearly your mind is made up.