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comment by b_b
b_b  ·  4222 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your Baloney Detection Kit Sucks

My favorite is wanton use of the strawman attack. Which is to say, calling someone out for a strawman argument, when the caller clearly doesn't know what that type of fallacy is. In internet parlance, strawman seeme to mean "an argument I don't tend to agree with." Oh but it sounds brilliant so often.