• I_Has_A_HatBanned from community
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    20 days ago

    Was the minister the one inflicting the blows? No? Ok, so “mocks” definitely seems like the right word.

    I’m just so tired of the loudest people against this horrible stuff often being folks with room temperature IQ’s.

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      19 days ago

      Was the minister the one inflicting the blows? No?

      So you’re saying other actors participated in this and it wasn’t just the minister?

      You almost made it to the conclusion in the post but somehow came up short. Good try though.

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      19 days ago

      The point is that while there was literally torture going on, what the title instead focuses on is on another unrelated minister mocking the activists. No one is saying that the minister was the one to do the torture or whatever scenario you got cooked up, the issue is that the title is not highlighting what the main story is, but some comparatively much more minor story happening in parallel. Which has the effect of sweeping the main, way more egregious by the side.

      My protip: if you think “wow I cant believe someone is actually this dumb” it’s more likely that you misunderstood something than that the other person really is as dumb as they seem to you. And you would look a lot smarter if you first checked “Do you actually mean x or am I misunderstanding something?” before posting smug one-liners.