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I’ve been saying things like this to my family for years! These arguments are everywhere, all the time, and they work so well!

It definitely shouldnt be called “weak-man” though, it should be called something like “evil synecdoque”...



In the old school blogging world it used to be called "nutpicking": https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nutpicking.


Nice one


It's a horrible name; I thought this article was going to be about something wildly different

"False majority" seems descriptive




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