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The issue is the proving part. We can't use repeated addition trickery (at least not in an obvious way) to show a product of two irrational negative numbers is positive. It's definitely still true that a product of two negative numbers is positive, just that proving it in general requires a different approach.
Yes this is correct. The ke example is for a proof by contradiction. We are assuming something is true in order to show it forces us to be able to conclude something ridiculous/false. Since the rest of our reasoning was correct, then it must have been our starting assumption that was wrong. So, we have to conclude our starting assumption was wrong/false.