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dpibel

(3,798 posts)
7. That's not what you said
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 09:43 PM
Sunday

You: "Despite all this back and forth, my point still stands - the OP wrongly attacked the entire armed services of the US- there is plenty to criticize, but to make such a broad based accusation is unfair or not supported by facts."

If you'd said that, you might have had, and even made, a point.

You made an offhand, clearly incorrect, statement that you apparently believed made a point about attacking the entire armed services of the U.S.

In no parsing of the language that I can comprehend did your statement that more than a dozen threads had talked about the JCOS communicate anything about your umbrage re: the whole of the armed services.

It was a throwaway putdown that was based on hyperbole.

I pointed that out.

That's really all we've got here.

You made a demonstrably factually inaccurate statement.

You demand accuracy from all and sundry.

Your ex post facto statements about what you might have meant or could have meant or meant to mean are utterly beside the point.

This has, as usual, been really fun. I'll leave you the last word, because if I don't, I'll be here forever.

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