YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoFact check: DeSantis falsely claims 'no pro-lifer has ever argued' to jail a woman for getting an abortionwww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1580arrow-down117
arrow-up1563arrow-down1external-linkFact check: DeSantis falsely claims 'no pro-lifer has ever argued' to jail a woman for getting an abortionwww.cnn.comYoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoOr they just lie with wild abandon and sometimes they accidentally say something that’s technically true.
minus-squareEmpathicVagrant@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·11 months agoI frequently run into sealioning types who like to purposefully misunderstand phrases/terms used so they can ‘win’. You’re right though it’s often just pasta on the wall, rapid-fire type nonsense.
minus-squareTelorand@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoWe call that “false equivalence,” more formally. It’s no wonder there’s an intersection of Christian fundamentalism and right-wing politics, because that is a favorite tactic of religious apologists, too (who are often fundamentalists themselves).
Or they just lie with wild abandon and sometimes they accidentally say something that’s technically true.
I frequently run into sealioning types who like to purposefully misunderstand phrases/terms used so they can ‘win’.
You’re right though it’s often just pasta on the wall, rapid-fire type nonsense.
We call that “false equivalence,” more formally. It’s no wonder there’s an intersection of Christian fundamentalism and right-wing politics, because that is a favorite tactic of religious apologists, too (who are often fundamentalists themselves).