SlAvA UkrAnI!
this post was submitted on 20 May 2026
53 points (60.0% liked)
Memes
56317 readers
899 users here now
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Attacking the person and not the point?
Should I have termed it as 'Poisoning the well' or something else?
What term would you have used?
An ad hominem would be to dismiss an argument by attacking the person or circumstances. You know, like calling someone a Russian bot.
Secondly, I think you missed the point of the image. You claim to believe America is bad, but simultaneosly adopt it's views on geopolitical rivals uncritically. Yes, including the view that anything that portrays the west in a negative light being "Russian propaganda". Funnily enough, that's the real ad hominem and is something incredibly common to hear coming out of liberals.
Edit: this was actually aimed at potustheplant, not Mayali. Clicked reply on the wrong comment.
Did you mistake me for the original commentor?
Right sorry, must've misclicked
While that is correct, it's not what the comment you replied to did. There's no criticisim to you as a person. It simply says that the argument reads as "whataboutism" so yup, your reply doesn't really make sense.
Are you isolating that comment alone, while ignoring the original comment? I was talking about that one. Not any towards me, but the original OP.
I mentioned that they did not have any response, other than trying to poison the well and implying stuff about the memes community, OP and other posters.
You replied to the wrong comment then ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ why would you reply to the second comment if you were referring to the first?
Because it was a continuation of the convo?
Didn't seem that way since neither the original comment nor their response is an "ad hominem" attack. But ok dude, you do you.
It may have seemed like that since you were not the commentor who I was replying to and did not follow the comment chain. And I did ask if it would be better to term it as 'poisoning the well'.
But ok dude, you do you.
Not the issue, no. Your reply just didn't make sense. No one, at any point, made an "ad hominem" attack/comment. Also, that term and "poisoning the well" have nothing to do with each other.
No issues. You didn't follow the comment chain.
Of all hills, this is the smallest one.