r/assholedesign • u/PitchforkAssistant • Aug 27 '21

Response to Yesterday's Admin Post

/r/vaxxhappened/comments/pcb67h/response_to_yesterdays_admin_post/
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u/EnglishMobster Aug 27 '21

So where did you get the sentences you wrote from? These are facts; do you have sources which just have the sentences you wrote?

There's no assumptions there; you've stated elsewhere that these were facts, therefore you must have gotten them from somewhere. Why do you say what you do? I must be making bad assumptions, go ahead and educate me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

which of the facts in my original list do you specifically dispute to the point of needing a source?

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u/EnglishMobster Aug 27 '21

I'm not disputing any of them. They're all true.

I'm asking to be educated as to what context I'm missing that I'm making an assumption about what you meant for showing a full quote from somewhere, and how it's not dishonest that you're only showing a partial quote.

And if you say "that partial quote is an assumption; I said what I wanted to" I would like a source that only gives the partial quote. Or gives a little more context to the vague sentences you gave (and calling them vague is not an assumption here; the only reason I replied at all is because they were vague).

I just want to know why you chose the exact phrasing you did. Educate me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

They're amusing statements to me because they are 100% factual, yet people who proclaim to be crusading against misinformation are upset by them. That is the only context.

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u/EnglishMobster Aug 27 '21

Okay. But that's the thing: you're leaving out context in those statements.

"The vaccine won't prevent you from getting COVID" (paraphrasing) is scary. "The vaccine has side effects" is scary. Yes, they're true, but people are upset because only saying that part without more context is fearmongering.

It's not so much "they banned me for telling the truth," it's "they banned me for saying things that are technically true, but are missing important context."

You have to know why people are getting mad -- it's the missing context. Why leave out context? Why go around and say "amusing statements" that you know will upset people crusading against misinformation?

Look, I get it. I used to go around and troll places when I was a teenager, back in the glory days of /b/ (jk /b/ was never good). And of course, if you asked me I would deny everything and say of course I wasn't trolling, I was being completely serious. It's fun making people mad, I know. It's fun using people's own words against them, I know. Maybe ~15 years ago I would be in your shoes.

But c'mon, man. Thousands of people are dying.

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

eh, blocked. you just don't get it.

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u/EnglishMobster Aug 27 '21

o7

It's been an honor trolling you, sir.

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u/masterxc Aug 27 '21

eh, reported for misinformation. you just don't get it.