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> Feinstein is the senator I dislike the most You don't mind the senators that voted to disenfranchise the millions of voters in Arizona?
by colinmhayes 5y ago
> Feinstein is the senator I dislike the most
You don't mind the senators that voted to disenfranchise the millions of voters in Arizona?
- tagoregrtst 5y agoIt follows from basic math that, if I dislike Feinstein the most, I dislike the other 99 senators less. However, it doesn't follow from: “Feinstein is the senator I dislike the most” That I don’t mind the other 99, or any subset thereof.
- nate_meurer 5y agoThis is the kind of comment that I fucking hate the most. You've attacked OP with a stupid, bad-faith presumption that has nothing to do with their simple and straightforward statement. In case I have to spell it out for you, yes, OP can simultaneously disagree with Feinstein and with multiple other politicians.
- colinmhayes 5y ago> OP can simultaneously disagree with Feinstein and with multiple other politicians. That's not what they said. They said Feinstein was worse.
- nate_meurer 5y agoI see. So in your world, when I say that Trump was the worst president in history, that means that I "don't mind" Bush or Nixon? Help me understand your logic here.
- tagoregrtst 5y agoWorse doesn't mean that everyone else is swell. A < B and A < 0 doesn’t imply B>0. All it implies is that A<B