• Corn@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    OK, lets do a reading comprehension exercise. You have identified that it would be absurd to suggest that those two are meaningful choices, so can you think of a more sensible way to interpret what I’ve said if I’m not suggesting that?

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        8 hours ago

        Don’t condescend when you are failing basic, basic reading comprehension. Middle school children use and understand rhetorical irony.

        Since I obviously am not expressing that participation in paying taxes and being exploited by capitalism are meaningful choices, hence why I spelled out how impractical the alternatives are; homelessness and/or uprooting your entire life and finding a foreign country that will accept you, I must mean the opposite, that you don’t have a realistic choice in the matter.

        If you’re autistic and have difficulty with this type of thing, I can give more examples, this is such a common rhetorical device, I’m genuinely surprised you didn’t understand after rereading the post. I’m certain you’ve seen it before or had other people use it in conversation.