I’ll admit I was rather ignorant growing up and the first time I had a conversation with someone and I pronounced Iran as “I ran” everyone roasted the shit outta me and shut me down, which like fair whatever. But my point is the pronunciation is secondary if you get the concept; that’s kinda the point of language and accents in general. If we have to pronounce every country or place as its residents call it then we should roast and ignore every English speaker that says “Germany” instead of Deutschland.
2+2 is 5 for very large values of 2.
When I wrote that post, I was pretty sure that somebody would try to do an end run on “2+2=5 is wrong” to try to undermine the point.
There are just too many people , especially on the internet, who have based their self-affirmation on ad hominem for an illustration of its inherent failure to go unchallenged.