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Re:Stop the Border Surveillance Bills by jerf on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @11:47AM (#15401334)
I can't help but think you didn't notice the name change on the comment chain here. Especially since you seem to have comprehensively missed all my points, since you were so busy replying to what you expected to have been written, rather than what was.
Re:Stop the Border Surveillance Bills by SomeStupidPoint on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:36PM (#15401726)
You presented a common argument in response to my post, even if you weren't personally advancing it; I addressed that argument with the rhetorical liberty that I was speaking in a dialog continuing the original exchange in which that argument was advanced. (This causes less indirection dereferences for people who do believe that argument trying to understand why I don't.)

The crux of why that argument is wrong is that it begs the question is precisely the same fashion, but dresses up that fallacy is faux predictive powers (eg, we can know what would happen if history changes) and emotional reaction to Nazis, which makes it wronger than the post I was originally replying to.

In all honesty, your post is so full of weasel words, it's unclear what point, if any, you're actually trying to make.