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SkyMarshal on July 23, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desk...

>Drilling and refining fossil fuels are BP's strengths, who cares about a little oil spilling into the environment?

That's perhaps the most tortured analogy I've ever heard. I can't even begin to fathom how you think that's comparable or relevant.

sixstringtheory on July 23, 2019 [–]

Ah, a popular strawman tactic these days: attack the analogy.

Sounds like it got my point across. You just don’t like the point.

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