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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by Dwolb on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:40PM (#18728916)
Off topic question: is there a word or phrase for this conversation?

Something to describe arguing about the issue at hand completely through the metaphor and not directly referring to the issue at hand.

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by gxs on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:46PM (#18728971)
The word is pretty much analogy and counter analogy.

See this wikipedia article that discusses it in the context of logic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_analogy

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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by luckydata on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:29PM (#18729303)
"Hackernewsing"
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Re:John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team by peterclary on Friday December 21, 2018 @02:56AM (#18731998)
Darmoking?
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