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You are free to use your meaning of Gish Gallop and distract from the original discussion, which has nothing to do with whether the Russians have done horrible
by ncxv 4y ago
You are free to use your meaning of Gish Gallop and distract from the original discussion, which has nothing to do with whether the Russians have done horrible things (they have) or not.
Ironically, Snyder, while possibly correct on everything, is using Gish Gallop wall-of-text style.
- malloryerik 4y agoThe wall of text is my fault, as copying from Kindle didn’t preserve formatting. Here Wikipedia’s definition: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop If I have or had any misunderstanding about the term, it might be that gish galloping seems to refer esp to conversations, like oral conversations bounded in time? Whereas the Russian-style “firehose of falsity” exists along several timescales, using a wide number of voices all chattering in contradictory ways. Nevertheless, my definition or meaning of the term isn't "mine"; it's the standard. Edit: Fixed the wall of text & some typos/false phone swypes here.