> The only difference between this statement and "all politicians do this" is the politicians who are not confronted about bad behavior.
That means that in your view, phito's comment was essentially saying that "all politicians do this" (your words), unless they're not confronted. My point was that it's incorrect, because of "they will almost always say" in phito's comment - so the correct reading of that comment would be that almost all politicians do this when confronted, not all.
> "all politicians do this" (your words), unless they're not confronted.
Right. I arrived at "not all" and you arrived at "not all" for different reasons. The combination of our assessments is correct. Both of us are incorrect if you decide that we have to show all our work, correct in that they draw the correct conclusion.
This is HN-tier pedantry that is immaterial to the question of whether or not the above comment is normalizing something not normal.
