# Apparently, you are only allowed 10 reports per month {Note: this is of course not accurate}

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> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> The other one today was when a poster, in response to me, said basically take the time to read the rest of my posts. I reported it as isn’t this condescending and as such being a jerk?

At the very least, yours was a straw man argument. My post:

> [@Trump won't rule out 3rd term](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/50):
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> I feel like this response speaks more to an individual’s need to believe “it can’t happen here” than it does to ground their positions in reality. Terrorists adapt, change tactics, and persist. Terrorists. Same with predators in the wild. Believing that wealthy, educated, powerful people of European ancestry, dressed in suits and having their hands firmly on the tillers of control … don’t do the exact same thing … is simply a denial of objective reality and an effort to adopt an anodyne pos…

Your reply:

> [@Trump won't rule out 3rd term](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wont-rule-out-3rd-term/1016371/51):
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> Nope. It speaks to the fact that alternate slates completely did not work.

Yours ignored the totality, the context, and the _far_ more salient point of my post.

Maybe I should have suggested the “steel man” instead of “straw man” approach to have been at less risk of coming across as condescending. Condescension was definitely not my intention. If it read that way, then I apologize.

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