Is it OK to have sentences that don't diagram in just one way?

I think that I asked something very similar to this before, but consider this sentence:

https://join.substack.com/p/ar...y-theories-dangerous

I do this all the time on Facebook, and I’ll never convert hardcore conspiracy theorists, but I can actually reach a large number of people who are in the middle and who are just curious about what people are talking about.

So it has the following structure:

X, and Y, but Z.

Does the "but" attach only to Y? Or to X? Or to X and Y?

Not sure if this is the ONLY ambiguity...there may be more ambiguities in that structure too; is this the ONLY ambiguity in that structure?

6/30/222:50 PM

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