> Blogger 1 makes overreaching claim when talking about a general trend. Blogger 2 focuses on the overreaching claim and mostly ignores the overall point. Commenter uses the opportunity to express his superiority above both sides.

FTFY

Stack overflow.

At least it is tail recursion, though.

I actually expected someone else to do another FTFY by adding "Second commenter takes discussion to the meta level."

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