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Sometimes metaphors really are a thing of beauty. Not often in internet parley, but sometimes. Baby_Balrog on barns, and Canada and stuff in the East Coast Is Sinking thread.
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We all know that there can be inherent problems using analogies and metaphors in argumentation, but as analogies go, this one is an absolute zinger: Two unicycles and some duct tape on the Polarization Dogma.
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