Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tptacek on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:43AM (#25712431)

The overwhelmingly Republican Oklahoma State Board of Elections, appointed by the Republican governor of Oklahoma with the consent of the Republican Oklahoma State Senate, debunked this video specifically, down to the subprecinct.

This doesn't seem like a good faith argument, but that doesn't matter; I'm not interested in the argument, so much as I am in how this thread does in fact provide a pretty good illustration of what a Gish Gallop is.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by condomhacker on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:57AM (#25712542)

You are not wrong in thinking that it is a Gish Gallop in that yes there are too many links to refute.

Which is why I didn't want anyone to refute them all. And chose only 4.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tptacek on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:11PM (#25718377)

Again, people who understand what a Gish Gallop is aren't going to be persuaded by anything you're saying, because they know the same tactics could be used to establish that up is down, or that pants are shirts. That's why 'harryh pointed this out to you.

You can't persuade people simply by being too tedious to argue with --- like you are here, where, when confronted with a refutation of one of your claims, you pretend not to have seen that and retreat to abstraction.

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