You must be very naive if you think retaliatory persecution is NOT to be expected from insulting a cult leader. Even today. Realism is not approval.
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“Cult” was my only point here.
aug 26, 2025, 2:53 am • 0 0 • view
So I see. You cannot argue for your points, so you use an baseless ad hom instead.
aug 26, 2025, 5:45 am • 0 0 • view
Not an hominem because the Catholic Church is not a person. Not an ad hominem on you since you have not identified as a Catholic. If you take my criticism personally that is your problem.
aug 26, 2025, 7:57 am • 0 0 • view
You called me a cult member. That is an ad hominem. I am taking nothing personally. You seem to be, though. bsky.app/profile/m5mu...
aug 26, 2025, 8:31 am • 0 0 • view
I said your response “screams cult member”. Sounding like a cult member is an observation, not an accusation. If I had said you don’t know what you’re talking about because you are a cult member, this would be ad hominem. In truth I have no idea why it is you don’t know what you’re talking about.
aug 27, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
You have made an observation that I am taking things personally. To which of my posts are you referring?
aug 27, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
There's a few posts i could pick, but I'll go with this. bsky.app/profile/m5mu...
aug 27, 2025, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view
Holy moly. While you are looking up terms try the phrase “taking it personally”.
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 am • 0 0 • view
An ad hom is generally an observation. Your observation was completely pointless unless it was an ad hom.
aug 27, 2025, 6:04 am • 0 0 • view
You could save yourself a lot of embarrassment if you look up terms before using them. Dark Ages, Copernicus, now ad hominem. Identifying a bias is in no way a logical fallacy UNLESS it is used to dismiss an argument. I used cult member as observation but not a counter argument. Example:
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
“If you insult President Trump you should expect persecution in the form of malicious prosecution.” ‘This statement screams MAGA.’ “How dare you call me a cult member!” ‘You have made a statement that sounds consistent with the MAGA viewpoint.’ “That’s ad hominem. Shame on you.”
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
‘Nope. I said your statement sounds MAGA, not that your argument is dismissible because of it. It’s just an interesting aside.’ Now do you see how easy that was? Nothing a reasoning person could not figure out on her own if she were interested in making a valid point.
aug 28, 2025, 3:31 am • 0 0 • view
Keep digging.
aug 28, 2025, 6:09 am • 0 0 • view