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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by Etherlord87 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:38PM (#30571121)
^ the above is a nice example of a strawman[1]. Obviously putting sanctions on citizens of an invading country is very far from shooting them, and yet asats decided to portray his debater as a leader who would murder other people, because perhaps it's too exhausting for him to have an actual, substantive conversation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by asats on Saturday March 05, 2022 @03:12PM (#30571420)
The argument was not about the imposition of sanctions on the citizens but about punishing the mostly anti-government people that are currently fleeing the country.

Also my debater accepted the argument and wrapped himself in that straw.

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