It's not an "analogy" in any way lol, it's you putting words in other peoples mouth to make their arguments worse. It's bad faith.

No, absolutely not. It is fucking ludicrous to say that I was accusing them of actually, literally doing the dog shocking story.

You aren't the authority where you can just declare your interpretation as the "true recounting".

This might surprise you, but people usually believe they are right when they have a belief, that's what having a belief is, but my argument, correct or incorrect, rested on referring to a timeline of events that can be independently confirmed or falsified and at no point did I say someone should believe something about the production of the misbegotten podcast because I said so.

This man was a Platner supporter and defender, as well as a defender of AOCIA.

I also mentioned many other criticisms! My point isn't that he's a good guy, and in fact I still criticized him for working with Ethan in my original comment. I despise him, I just don't think this line of criticism is a fair representation of events.

and now he can tap dance on their graves and say “judge me by my enemies,” but i’m not allowed to judge him by his friends