[vageli]

> It's right on target if you consider the goal is to sink the political issue by equating it with something similar but essentially frivolous, a trolling technique known as forum sliding.

Forgive me for this aside, but do you know where I can read more about trolling techniques (of the non-fishing variety)?

[majewsky]

This classic treatise from 1831 might be a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right (for the full text, use the link to Wikisource at the bottom).

[anigbrowl]

I would better have described it as a trolling objective (to slide the instant topic downwards), since the techniques are secondary. I would nat dare to compete once luminaries like Schopenhauer have taken the field.