#Hyperbole

people going after @thoughtslime for hyperbole when the guy he's criticizing has been:*explicitly ableist*calling trans ppl mentally ill*fetishising and dehumanizing trans ppl*blocking trans people who call him out*all the while

Ryan Koenigsberg

RyanKoenigsberg

Time to put the "Weapons won't matter when Bolles gets Lock killed" narrative to bed.I just watched every Drew Lock snap... Do you know how many times he got sacked

🗣 Rob Rosenberger

1/7Dave calls it "terrible reporting" but I'll DEFEND writer @kari_paul for summarizing the cybersecurity community's own #hyperbole.Dave notes the story includes NO comments from "security researchers." Okay then, let'

It's Just James

Joe Biden could shoot ME on 5th Avenue and I would still vote for him over Trump. I want to give a shout out to @OklahomaDemocr1 who had the same

Pwn All The Things

pwnallthethings

I mean, this is right in a sense. Lots of folks (imo) conflating chance of illegitimate attempts to subvert the election (certain) with chance they succeed (less much less certain).

Jillian Ratti, MD

It is best to slowly release information as the pandemic progresses. We all need to adapt psychologically to the reality that these numbers will show. Put them out too early

Psychology Point:People often use hyperbole when their knowledge is denied.X tells Y: “A is better than B.”Y denies it.X says: “A is way better than B.”X wants to emphasise that

Emerican Johnson - Self-Declared Antifa

EmericanJohnson

Refusing to admit that capitalism kills millions every year is genocide denial. If someone dies from lack of food, shelter, or healthcare in 2020, it's murder. Starving someone to death

.@sarahkendzior Perhaps you can answer this: what other leaders in history have willfully allowed their citizens to die? Is this a form of terrorism? I would like to start getting

As we have reported, the anti-mask groups have present a number of false claims about pandemic safety measures, including claims about masks being a violation of human rights. The hyperbole

I remember when and where I was when I played Pong the first time. Same for my first Google query.Like those massive leaps forward, I’ll never forget my first time

Helen Pluckrose has returned to Hermit Mode

Nope, not arguing. Don't even bother. I don't have to pretend to think someone who expresses a wish for a demographic she is prejudiced against to die of a virus

Corona Van der Woodsen

one thing that was always pretty mortifying was the nerdish propensity for overstatement -- "best. thing. ever." -- because it signified such a desperation to be heard. to employ hyperbole

andrew kaczynski🤔

OANN claimed Covid-19 was created in a lab in North Carolinahttps://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1249093268920467457 That’s not hyperbole

It sounds absurd to say it, but America is in the process of choosing whether to be a white nationalist fascist state or an inclusive democracy. That's not hyperbole, that's

If you’re wondering what this is—it’s a photo of doctors and nurses imitating Jesus’ last supper, because apparently their sacrifices during #coronavirus are comparable. This is about as nauseating as