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nfw2
26 days ago
Mean spirited sure, ad hominem, no. It's satirizing the argument, not personal traits unrelated to the argument
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kybernetikos
26 days ago
It's definitely a bad argument worthy of some sort of label. It seems to go "you believe this thing, which I won't engage with at all, but I'll assume that because of the way you said it, you also believe all this other stuff that I disagree with".
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nfw2
26 days ago
The term you are looking for is straw man
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zahlman
26 days ago
No, satire would involve an attempt to pretend to make the same argument while exposing flaws. This was just a bunch of uncharitable strawmen.
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vanviegen
26 days ago
I stand corrected.
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