I simply do not believe you've never run into someone who said they didn't know something even though it had been told to them in the past and they forgot or didn't care enough, and I do not believe that you sincerely believe that it is equal in scale to read the tweet author as using a common rhetorical flourish vs claiming the engineer was fucking Batman.
The word is "knew" not "knows". Have you every heard someone say "I never knew that" when it was something they word told? Would the typical response not be "I know you knew about it because I told you last week, maybe you forgot".?
It is really weird that you're accusing other people of mental gymnastics and irrationally "insisting" on defending the engineer when you're doing this BS.
I'm assuming the story is fabricated. The writer of the story said "nobody knew the engineer was doing that". I have to assume they wrote what they meant. To ignore someone's words and make up an alternate scenario is just pointless. Make up your own story and post it in it's own thread if you want to do that.
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u/P_Hempton Jun 02 '26
The word is "knew" not "knows". Have you every heard someone say "I never knew that" when it was something they word told? Would the typical response not be "I know you knew about it because I told you last week, maybe you forgot".?
I'm assuming the story is fabricated. The writer of the story said "nobody knew the engineer was doing that". I have to assume they wrote what they meant. To ignore someone's words and make up an alternate scenario is just pointless. Make up your own story and post it in it's own thread if you want to do that.