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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 17 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Answer me this

You're a far-left gay man living in LA

You were up at 2:30 in the morning on Saturday night posting this

Then you were up at 5:10 in the morning Sunday morning posting the OP, coincidentally also voting-negative, message

Do I have that right?

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -3 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Asking questions highlighting some way in which it seems like someone is lying, is in no way "ad hominem." The hominem is the one who is lying, but the focus is on the lying, not the hominem.

(I mean, I don't know. For all I know he was out all night and stumbled home at 5:09 and just had to get this meme up on Lemmy before he went to bed. I was just highlighting it as an unusual thing that's a little suspect.)

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