Flying Squid@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoKremlin's favorite candidate Jill Stein refuses to call Putin a war criminal during interviewboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square312fedilinkarrow-up1762arrow-down165
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minus-squareCmdrShepard42@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down14·3 months agoWhat kind of mental gymnastics do you have to be doing to claim that saying “Yes” to the question “is Putin a war criminal” isn’t a clear yes/no answer and clear agreement? This is like MAGA level insanity.
minus-squareTheFonz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down4·3 months agoWhy can’t it be yes, full stop? The same way she did for Biden and Netanyahu? Saying yes with no many qualifiers is insane level of weaseling. Heres a simple example: “did you rape that woman” “yes” vs “yes she was asking for it” Is not the same. That’s what she’s doing.
minus-squarecatloaf@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down11·3 months agoEither way it’s still a yes. Qualifiers don’t affect the result either in this case nor in your example.
minus-squareTheFonz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·3 months agoWhy can’t it be a yes full stop? The same way she did for two others?
What kind of mental gymnastics do you have to be doing to claim that saying “Yes” to the question “is Putin a war criminal” isn’t a clear yes/no answer and clear agreement? This is like MAGA level insanity.
Why can’t it be yes, full stop? The same way she did for Biden and Netanyahu?
Saying yes with no many qualifiers is insane level of weaseling.
Heres a simple example:
vs
Is not the same. That’s what she’s doing.
Either way it’s still a yes. Qualifiers don’t affect the result either in this case nor in your example.
Why can’t it be a yes full stop? The same way she did for two others?