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Re:'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest ... by gaganyaan on Monday December 04, 2023 @09:55AM (#38518022)
I was responding to your comment with a rhetorical device. Your quote is entirely uninteresting because of course police will claim that increased drug use and increased $BAD_THING are linked, and please can they have more funding. There's no evidence behind your quote, and you shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.
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Re:'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest ... by thomastjeffery on Monday December 04, 2023 @10:17AM (#38518283)
You wrote a thing like this

> some text

I assumed that to be a quote. Was it not?

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> and you shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.

You mean the article we are commenting on shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.

I agree! My point is that it did indeed bring it up. Nothing more.

You are arguing with no one, and directing it at me.

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Re:'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest ... by gaganyaan on Monday December 04, 2023 @02:30PM (#38521936)
It's a common way of rephrasing what someone said to point out the absurdity in their statement.

I mean that you in particular shouldn't have brought it up. You should apply your reasoning, and not argue using bad arguments. If the article has a bad argument, don't repeat it.

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Re:'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest ... by thomastjeffery on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:23PM (#38522524)
I provided it as context. For fucks sake, this is the article we are writing comments for! God forbid I talk about the OP!

Did you read literally any other part of my comments?!?

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Re:'Drug use is a health problem': inside one of the oldest ... by gaganyaan on Monday December 04, 2023 @06:43PM (#38524896)
You replied to someone that said "No one I know seriously considers changing the structure that's in place" with an irrelevant comment
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