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Analogies are lazy rhetorical devices. Different things are, unsurprisingly, different. Saying "X is like Y" does nothing but invite the conversation to take a turn into identifying all the differences between X and Y.

Just defend the original subject on its own merits.

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This comment is like an opinion someone had and then shared digitally with the world.

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I didn't mind the Thomas Kinkade reference, but you do have me thinking about to what extent analogies are lazy. Do you abstain from using them completely, or keep them rare?

I didn't mean it as an analogy. I meant it as it visually looks the same to me. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250326-why-the-quaint-...

Hyper-detailed but somehow off, intense colors, not entirely realistic as a complete scene but a combination of realistic scenes.

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