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by dec0dedab0de 46 days ago
Americans, particularly on social media, seem to have a love-hate relationship with food. These reviews are not uncommonly juxtaposed with fitness content and people in the comments warning of the obesity problem. So these same people praising and consuming this calorie-rich food are at the same time warning of obesity in America and trying to get in better shape. There is a sort of cognitive dissonance in both voicing concerns about obesity or food inflation, yet consuming the very food that is causing it, or watching a video that glorifies this food.

It feels like a reach presenting this without evidence that it is the same people. Especially without any nuance around health-conscious people still doing unhealthy things on occasion.

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Once you see the goomba, you can't unsee it...
Gosh, this was exactly my thought in reading that, and I just learned about it today
…goomba? Wtf are you even talking about?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy

It has nothing to do with goombas, except the first person to illustrate the fallacy chose to draw goombas.