> "all politicians do this" (your words), unless they're not confronted. Right. I arrived at "not all" and you arrived at "not all" for different reasons. The

> "all politicians do this" (your words), unless they're not confronted. Right. I arrived at "not all" and you arrived at "not all" for different reasons. The combination of our assessments is correct. Both of us are incorrect if you decide that we have to show all our work, correct in that they draw the correct conclusion. This is HN-tier pedantry that is immaterial to the question of whether or not the above comment is normalizing something not normal.