You seemed to have missed the context that you're arguing the "against" position in a thread about social media fact-checking, i.e. a "demand that politicians l

You seemed to have missed the context that you're arguing the "against" position in a thread about social media fact-checking, i.e. a "demand that politicians live up to some standard [of truth]" Language has implied meaning, it's one of the maxims of conversation in the field of linguistics, of the Cooperative principle [1]. If you're going to immediately jump to technical dissection of a conversation, you should probably consider the relevant field first. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle#Maxim_of_relation_(or_relevance) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle#Maxim_of...