If you find yourself responding with tu quoque, then it is probably about time you re-evaluated the hypothesis that you are in mind-kill territory.
In this particular context, I think a more appropriate label would be the “Appeal to Come on, gimme a friggen’ break!”
The comment he was responding to was quite loaded with connotation, voluntarily or not, despite the “mostly true” and “arguably within the realm of likely possibilities” denotations that would make the assertion technically valid.
Being compared, even as a metaphorical hypothesis, to sophistry-flinging rhetoric-centric politicians is just about the most mind-killer-loaded subtext assault you could throw at someone.
Well, he is heavily involved in the US politics scene, and may have picked up bad habits like focusing on rhetoric over facts, etc.
Unlike, say, wedrifid, whose highly-rated comment was just full of facts!
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If you find yourself responding with tu quoque, then it is probably about time you re-evaluated the hypothesis that you are in mind-kill territory.
In this particular context, I think a more appropriate label would be the “Appeal to Come on, gimme a friggen’ break!”
The comment he was responding to was quite loaded with connotation, voluntarily or not, despite the “mostly true” and “arguably within the realm of likely possibilities” denotations that would make the assertion technically valid.
Being compared, even as a metaphorical hypothesis, to sophistry-flinging rhetoric-centric politicians is just about the most mind-killer-loaded subtext assault you could throw at someone.
How could I have phrased the point better? Or should I have dropped it altogether?