re: #309 Obdicut

I find it hilarious that you’re attempting to use an argument from authority to assert that I don’t understand what an argument is.

Seriously, dude: When you simply make a philosophical statement, without actually supporting that statement through argument, you are making an assertion, and not an argument. It’s simple.

You obviously don’t, I’m trying to be nice here. You made an assertion that I took at face value, that you believe foreign influence through campaign donations is a problem. I didn’t ask you to back up that assertion because I took it as a philosophical question “Is foreign money/ideals bad in an election”. I disagreed by stating that I don’t believe ideals are “bad” based on their source. You responded by asking for quantification of a philosophical position. Hence an argument about the “meaning of the word “is”“.