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bucolic_frolic

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19. Double-barrel just means two sided - two questions paired together

Fri Oct 21, 2022, 09:19 AM

Oct 2022

To really confuse someone, the questions should sound reasonable separately, and be related (of the same or similar subject) together, but each of them separately should be just about unable to be answered by the intended target. Delivered rapidly you have really rendered them speechless. The questions aren't meant to be answered, they're meant to confuse.

I had this done to me twice, which is what sent me to research two-sided questions, and the term double-barrel popped up. Formulate one? I've have to think it through, write it down, and practice a lot. So let's think it through.

"Mr. MAGA, will Trump in 2024 be able to mitigate the differences between libertarians and free market von Mises economists (that's part one), OR would it be better for Trump to send an emissary to the Middle East to seek favorable loan rates for his son-in-law? (part two)"

I'd have a hard time constructing a pausible answer to either one, AND the two are not related, but the question makes it sound like they are.

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