What part of what I don't mean don't you understand?

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“Hoyt's second point, made with reference to Hamas, is that an organization that uses terror often does other things as well - like ‘provid[ing] social services and operat[ing] charities’. To call such an organization ‘terrorist’ might invite the inference that terrorism is all that it is about; or that somebody who works in a Hamas clinic is also a terrorist. The short answer here is: pull the other one. If I say that the government of Abcdef is a rights-violating government, I do not thereby imply that violating rights is all that it does. If I say that the University of Manchester is an institution of higher education I do not thereby imply that all of its employees are teachers, educators.”
 — Norman Geras

“Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
 — Winston Churchill, Speech in the House of Commons, 11 November 1947.

“Indeed, it has been said [e.g., by Karl Marx] that capitalism is the worst form of economic system, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
 — TheBigHenry, shamelessly paraphrasing Churchill's famous dictum to make a point.

STOP JUMPING TO THE WRONG CONCLUSIONS! Break me a f*cking give.

When it is said that:	It does NOT necessarily mean that:
The University of Manchester is an institution of higher education.	All of its employees are teachers, educators. [NOT! That would be a grossly restrictive interpretation!]
Democracy is the worst form of government.	All those other forms that have been tried from time to time are better. [NOT! This is an instance of dramatic irony!]
A Presidential election is not a mandate.	The statement is an expression of contempt. [NOT! It is, in fact, a statement of Constitutional fact!]
There are plenty of young liberal idiots.	Older conservatives are wise. [NOT! Some are; some aren't.]
A clock is broken.	It can't be correct twice a day. [NOT! This is called a joke!]