• agent_nycto@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Sorry mate, I had to call in the reff

    You are quoted as saying

    Please, go, find any evidence of mass shootings carried out by basically random, deranged individuals in the USSR, with their own firearms,.or firearms that they somehow obtained in a personal capacity, for private use.

    Genuinely, if you can find anything about that, I’d love to hear about it.

    But you can’t just imply/assert something happened with literally 0 evidence, and flip the burden of proof into an assbackwards state.

    Your opponent did then provide the evidence you asked for and then you dismissed it. A proper play would’ve meant admitting that these events did happen after being presented evidence. You could’ve carried your point afterwards and talked about the difference in scale, but you undermined your own argument by dismissing theirs.

    I think that’s like a ten yard penalty and a time out, take a breather and come back working together on finding a good point through dialog instead of fighting, seems like you could reach each other if you wanted.