Circe
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Merriam-Webster's online dictionary is an excellent resource to consult if you don't understand a word or idiomatic phrase I use:
....Readers having strong reading comprehension skills are able to do so accurately, whereas readers with weak ones often do not. I do not write targeting readers with poor reading comprehension skills, nor do I take kindly to readers who show a pattern of willfully availing themselves equivocal techniques, rhetorical framing is one such technique, to shift the meaning of what I write to something other than what is clear from the context of the passage(s) I composed.
Snark: not useful. And certainly not polite. I'd watch that stuff if I were you.
The "truth" is, if there is such a thing as truth, which I gravely doubt, that your phrase "benefit of the doubt" definitely needed definition for the context. It still does. You should be able to define your own terms when asked! You know that.
Suggestion: figure out who is on your side and who is not and be loyal to your side.
Who is on one's side and who is not has nothing to do with whether one gives the benefit of the doubt. Trusting in the veracity of one's remarks on account of whether they are on one's side or not is pure partisanship, be it politically nexused or not. As implied or explicitly stated in earlier lines of discourse, by me and by others, most folks only grant that measure of benefit of the doubt to family members because, generally, they presume that their family will not willfully palter to them. Obviously, that presumption isn't always sound, but nearly everyone has a strong desire/commitment to thinking it is thus with regard to their own family members.
About palter and nexus: I have a rule of thumb about excessively abstruse vocabulary which has stood me in good stead. If by now I don't know that word (and I was an editor for years) ---- then the writer is posturing. And probably studied "Word of the Day" regularly for a long time. As an editor, I would say Keep It Simple. I do not add the usual clichéd ending because it doesn't apply to you.