XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2023-11-17, Alan Browne  wrote:   
   > On 2023-11-16 23:58, Oscar Mayer wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 20:55:30 -0500, Alan Browne wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> It's a common idiomatic usage, you simpleton.   
   >>>   
   >>> Simpleton would be an improvement.   
   >>>   
   >>> I think it's at "moron" working on graduating to "imbecile".   
   >>>   
   >>> (Or the other way around - haven't got time to parse the definitions).   
   >>   
   >> An educated person long ago would never have made that speech mistake.   
   >> But even an uneducated person would be able to admit they were wrong.   
   >>   
   >> If they were reasonable, they'd learn from it.   
   >   
   > An educated person doesn't stoop to ad hominem attacks over idioms used   
   > as they are used commonly as opposed to logically.  It's a fine   
   > distraction for a troll to gleefully throw up and for rubes to agree with.   
   >   
   > https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-less   
      
   A trollish distraction is exactly what this is.   
      
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