• TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    I’m not lying. I’m telling you my honest impression that arises from your insistence on this question, in this context.

    Nah you’re making up a story and believing it despite correction. Or, as a shorthand: lying.

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      12 days ago

      No, that is literally the “knee-jerk reaction” I had on reading your initial question which I responded to. I saw what looked like someone boiling the election down to a simple vote for or against genocide, or at least making it sound like it was possible to vote genocide away.

      Why else do you think I called you naive for thinking it’s so simple?

      What, then, do you think I was saying, there, in my initial response to you?

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        12 days ago

        You are describing your process of making a guess. You are leaving out the part where you have been corrected and are now doubling down on the truth of your guess.

        You know, lying.

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          12 days ago

          You are describing your process of making a guess.

          …yes? I guessed at your intention.

          You are leaving out the part where you have been corrected

          Because that’s not the part of the dialogue I am presently describing. I am explaining my initial assumption, because you are trying to claim it is a new invention.

          are now doubling down on the truth of your guess.

          …no? I’m just explaining what it was. Why do you think I said “what looked like”??