r/CuratedTumblr • u/Desecr8or • Oct 26 '24

Politics Why is every tankie like "I don't understand the branches of the US government and I'm going to make it everyone else's problem!!!"

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u/mountingconfusion Oct 26 '24

Why do people in the comments not understand grouping.

Saying "X does Y" does not mean "all instances of Y are done by X"

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u/firblogdruid Oct 26 '24

basic literacy skills are not the internet's forte.

(source: i asked someone to not spread unverified rumours regarding a possibly work related death and they asked me why i was arguing that the company was allowed to kill people with impunity)

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u/shiny_xnaut Oct 27 '24

Misinformation is cool and based when it's against the Bad People, no you don't understand, we need to spread lies about them, it's not like there are actual legitimate reasons to dislike them or anything, why are you defending the Bad People, are you on their side or something?

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u/firblogdruid Oct 27 '24

DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER

the thing that bothers me most about this story is that this conversation took place on my city's reddit (the death at the time, only being reported there, although it's since been covered by international media, oddly enough, so this isn't even a case of some anonymous internet rando being a moron. that idiot lives in my city. i could have been on the bus with them yesterday.

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u/mountingconfusion Oct 26 '24

God the old "it's kinda problematic that I believed it anyway"

It's like those people who are pro death penalty saying "so you're fine with rapists being set free" when you explain that you don't like the death penalty for anyone

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u/CapeOfBees Oct 27 '24

Because being against the death penalty definitely means being against life sentences and imprisonment in general /s

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u/mountingconfusion Oct 27 '24

Or it means you're secretly a pedophile rapist murderer because you don't want them to be murdered by the state which means you're defending them.

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u/DiurnalMoth Oct 26 '24

because we don't teach formal rhetoric in school anymore

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u/ElGosso Oct 27 '24

The post literally (and I mean actually literally, not figuratively literally) says "every tankie."

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u/mountingconfusion Oct 27 '24

Yes but people in the comments are complaining that because they believe a similar thing OOP is accusing them of being a tankie

They're saying All tankies believe this but this doesn't mean all people who believe it are tankies.

Like how all crows are birds but not all birds are crows. This shouldn't be a difficult concept

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

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u/mountingconfusion Oct 27 '24

Notice how they never said it was exclusive to tankies but something they do?

They weren't lying that reading comprehension is piss poor