[kelseyfrog]

I see the confusion. I was referring to "this feels like a slope that could become very slippery." having any meaning outside of someone arguing from SSF.

[ch4s3]

Yes, what I meant was this sort of creeping expansion of US government has historically created slippery slopes.

[kelseyfrog]

Exactly, that's definitionally fallistic.

[ch4s3]

No, it's an appeal to previous examples of the same thing happening.

[kelseyfrog]

Slippery slope is the only fallacy where people can simultaneously use it by name, and still claim, "but this time it's true!"