#source: every two fucking days when there's a new surge of discourse on this site
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There needs to be a term for the kind of strawman-adjacent argument where, sure, there actually is a guy who believes that but I think he's a dumbass.
#we live in an age in which it is trivially easy to find people who hold virtually any opinion and are wrong about it#and in which those peoples' stupid rationales will invariably be amplified by their ideological opponents#thus making it so no one ever has to seriously engage with viewpoints other than their own#and can instead content themselves in always being right about everything#by taking pot-shots at the worst-possible articulations of whatever they disagree with#source: every two fucking days when there's a new surge of discourse on this site#the vast majority of which consists of people who are good at rhetoric on either side#making hashtag epic takedowns of poor slobs on the other side#and studiously avoiding actually engaging with anything substantive#which isn't a good thing to do even if you're ultimately correct!
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