• CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago
    1. Bezos is the example they were using to illustrate their point. Which isn’t a strawman argument by any definition of the term.

    2. That’s a statistic that can, in fact, be proven. They should probably cite a source for it, but given how you set the level of the discussion, I can see why they’d think that level of effort is unnecessary.

    3. Posing a question can be a way to make a point. It’s called a rhetorical question. It helps the argument if you follow up with an answer to the question, but the question on its own is enough to make a point.