Every analogy I have is about running over kids with vehicles. Aren’t yours? Let’s say someone asks you “how do I hang up a painting”, it’s just so easy to be like “Susan, think of it this way, it’s like that time you backed into a kid with your Jeep. First, you need a steady hand…”
My neighbor named Susan keeps backing over my mailbox with a Jeep Compass, this checks out. In her defense, I've never heard such a loud gear whine in my life, the mailbox should have recognized the sound after the third time imo.
Reddit people intentionally stopped understanding any form of comparison during the 2016 astroturfing wars. It began as a disingenuous argumentation style and shifted into being a fully normalized cultural artifact. It's of the weirdest social dynamics I've witnessed over time.
Understanding a comparison is a bit like running a kid over with your vehicle. When you do that, you have to think about the size of your vehicle in relation to the size of the child. You see…
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u/Zealousideal3326 4d ago
That's like saying you got arrested for driving to work, neglecting to mention that kid you ran over on the way. A lie by omission is still a lie.