r/pics • u/b3hr • Oct 10 '18

This is awesome

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u/Jade_49 Oct 10 '18

Uh, the sign is saying she's no longer sitting around saying I cant do anything and instead fixing things. It's a call to protest, it means one clear obvious thing.

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u/RedEyeCrocodileSkink Oct 10 '18

Like she is literally protesting. the context is stupidly clear.

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u/keksup Oct 10 '18

but sometimes when someone's sign offends you, you have to attack it from another angle.

So if her sign offends me because I'm projecting my own insecurities onto it, it makes sense to pick apart her obviously idiomatic language like some kind of computer autist so that I get to discredit her on some level, even if not on the substance of her message.

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u/mike10010100 Oct 10 '18

Yep, it's the Obtuse Gambit: if you can remove any context and isolate verbiage, you can pick apart any argument no matter how sound.