• VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s an aggressive mix of the gish gallop and motte and bailey fallacies.

    They won’t even own their own viewpoints once you’ve gone through the effort of pulling apart the claim and addressing it. They’ll tell you that you’re reading too deep into it, misinterpreting it, all while putting out more nonsense for you to address.

    There’s nothing you can do with the average person not being invested enough in politics to inquire further, and the lack of controls on public speakers. Except stoop to their level I suppose.