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No True Scotsman
I love how people use the term to mean "Words cannot have definitions", which isn't what the fallacy means at all.
But I bet it makes them feel real smart for a few seconds when they incorrectly use the term.
Lol yeah. No True Scotsman is against shifting/arbitrary definitions, but your definition of socialism here is rigid and clear.
Come on, this is Lemmy where every person is a self-enlightened "intellectual" and any argument that they don't like or don't have a response for is a fallacy of one of the 2-3 that they can remember at the moment (always strawman and no true Scotsman) and of course then the opposing always completely invalid with no counter argument. (Even that this in itself is the fallacy fallacy lol)
Every metaphor, simile, or analogy is a strawman,every definition is a no true Scotsman, and every history book, report, research, or scientific studies is an appeal to authority 😉
The way people misinterpret appeal to authority really disappoints me. It's not an appeal to authority to say that you have studied a topic for years in collage and probably are more informed than the average person.