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  • Not saying not to do what you say but Jewish population in America is only 2% this is not enough to make a change

    Israel has a population of ~9.75 million.

    The US has a population of ~335 million people.

    As of 2020, the American Jewish population is estimated at 7.5 million people, accounting for 2.4% of the total US population.

    If All American Jews managed to convince just 1.3 Israeli’s, that’d be the entire population influenced.

    But perhaps you’re saying 2% isn’t enough to affect change internally within the US? Probably not true either, 2% is 1/50 people. And as we all know from tinfoil wearing conspiracy nuts, Jews have disproportionate representation in politics. (I do not know or care whether that statement has any veracity; I’m saying it sarcastically.)



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    I could but I don’t want to

    "I totally have a girlfriend. No you wouldn’t know her, she’s Canadian. "

    (See this is a strawman, much like the one you used earlier itt.)

    Confidently idiotic people irk me.

    Me2 man. Perhaps stop being one?

    You’re the type who first of all sees these things as competitions, (“take the L, bro”), secondly, you think all you have to do to “win” a debate is to point out a fallacy.

    You’re probably in the camp of people who think insults mean ad hominem? :D

    You started this thread with a strawman you then claim isn’t a strawman, because of the intent you had while making it+

    Oh now I realise what you’re doing. You genuinely think I’m as intellectually lazy and ingenuine as you, so you think I too am trying to bullshit my way through this?

    I can refer back to any comment. Like the one which you try to assert that me pointing out your strawman… is a strawman?

    Okay then. What’s the weak version of the argument I made to attack, and oh yeah, what argument is it that I’m trying to attack in the first place?

    Oh you don’t have one, or have to come up with them, post hoc? It is somewhat amusing.


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    See, now you’re in “the spiral”. You can’t address the actual thing you said anymore, have expressed that you feel like you’re “wasting time”, but for some reason, you feel like you have to keep replying, despite having to resort to spamming memes.

    It’s okay to just leave a thread, you know?




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    Larp all you want, that won’t make your comment at the top of this thread be any less fallacious.

    Me pointing out that it was fallacious, which it is, doesn’t mean I’m engaging in the argument. It just means I’m tired of people like you larping they know philosophy when they can barely be bothered to skim the Wikipedia entries on the subject.

    I’m not wasting time. I’m enjoying my time on Lemmy. Aren’t you?





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    First off, with all this philosophy larping, there’s a thing called “the fallacy fallacy”, which states it’ fallacious to imply someone is wrong simply because their logic was fallacious.

    Secondly, me reminding you of how these things work doesn’t mean I’m suddenly “defending a false claim”, especially not with strawmen.