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Demixs

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11. The author said there's an electoral backlash

Reply to Quiet Em (Reply #4)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 02:32 PM

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To conclude That the author himself is hostile for pointing this out is strange to me.
It is called the “shooting the messenger” fallacy, a.k.a. Ad Hominem attack.

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