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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by fzeroracer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @03:46AM (#22906039)
The tweeter is quite literally strawmanning Vox as he claims Vox is responsible for the coronavirus. That's a textbook definition of a strawman.

And now you appear to be strawmanning him in attempt to defend strawmanning.

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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by read_if_gay_ on Saturday April 18, 2020 @04:17AM (#22906163)
The tweet’s original text is “Vox & Recode helped cause the greatest crisis in modern US history.”

That is very different from GGP’s interpretation “Vox is responsible for the coronavirus”.

All you provided is further proof that GGP is strawmanning. Thanks

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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by fzeroracer on Saturday April 18, 2020 @11:38AM (#22908440)
No it's not. You're being intentionally pedantic here and seem to be ignoring the actual meaning of those words.

If I helped someone do something bad, then I bear some responsibility for the outcome. That is the definition of responsibility. What is your definition, considering it seems to differ from the dictionary definition?

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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by read_if_gay_ on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:16PM (#22908703)
I’m honestly not being intentionally pedantic. To say someone helped with X is different from saying someone is responsible for X. The latter implies full responsibility, the former only partial responsibility.

That’s more than enough of a difference for this to matter. Especially if X is COVID-19. Traster is clearly strawmanning the tweets.

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