You have now shown that your previous statement was false:
Because this:
Right now, statements from the US military involving both the words “defensive strike” and any Middle Eastern country are extremely dubious and should not be trusted.
And this:
I didn’t say it wasn’t a thing. I’m saying that anything involving “defensive” and a Middle Eastern country from the US military is a damned lie right now.
Do not mean exactly the same thing. There is a wide, wide gulf between “damned lie” and “extremely dubious.”
I really don’t think anything more needs to be done to demonstrate that you are being wildly inconsistent and quite dishonest, so I think I’ll move on.
I’m not going to play this game of semantics. You’re right, they aren’t exactly the same. Because I rephrased it for clarification I thought was missing. They mean the same thing. If you want to argue that removing heated language in the name of understanding fundamentally altered what I have to say, then that’s your deal. I want productive conversations, not word lawyering. I get enough of that from fighting work with my union.
You have now shown that your previous statement was false:
Because this:
And this:
Do not mean exactly the same thing. There is a wide, wide gulf between “damned lie” and “extremely dubious.”
I really don’t think anything more needs to be done to demonstrate that you are being wildly inconsistent and quite dishonest, so I think I’ll move on.
I’m not going to play this game of semantics. You’re right, they aren’t exactly the same. Because I rephrased it for clarification I thought was missing. They mean the same thing. If you want to argue that removing heated language in the name of understanding fundamentally altered what I have to say, then that’s your deal. I want productive conversations, not word lawyering. I get enough of that from fighting work with my union.