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Those facts don't support the claim that the Cubans killed Kennedy. Nobody has questioned that Oswald was trying to defect to Cuba (except apdst, who isn't privy to 50 year old info). Nobody questions that Oswald was a supporter of communism. What is being contested is that any of the aforementioned facts mean that a foreign power is responsible for the death of JFK.
If the conclusion is stated as a fact and the facts used to arrive at that conclusion aren't relevant, then the premises are the incorrect ones to use and whether they are false or not is irrelevant. This is pretty basic debating. In short, what apdst is doing is something like this:
Premise 1:Dinosaurs are animals.
Premise 2: Dogs are animals.
Conclusion: Dinosaurs and dogs are the same thing because they're both animals.
Non-sequiturs are a terrible way to argue.
Correct. apdst committed the non-sequitur logical fallacy. And now Toby is defending the non-sequitur.