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I am aware of

  • Sea-lioning
  • Gaslighting
  • Gish-Galloping
  • Dogpiling

I want to know I theres any others I'm not aware of

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's another type I see often here with these kinds of assholes. It's intentionally misconstruing or reaching the wrong conclusions about what the other person is saying. It's a form of strawmanning. They'll move the argument just a bit to the side, drop a false zinger that could fit the original narrative if you squint hard enough, and accuse you of saying or doing horrible shit when in reality you're saying something else.

And guess what, the people reading do not give a shit. They'll just dogpile if you try to fight it because Lemmy is wonderful like that and people here are so nice and critical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's bad food. I get into bad hungry defensive moods with bad food.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone started talking about my hair in the profile picture on a discussion on another site because they didn't agree with what I said.

When people do shit like this I just disengage. Life is too short to waste with bad faith arguments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ad-Hominen attack, I think its called.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Motte and bailey.

  • "The Kingdom of Foo has no inequality!"
  • "Actually it has quite a bit..."
  • "Well it's still moving in the right direction, and that's what really matters."
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
  • Brillo-Padding
  • Tire-Kicking
  • Backyarding
  • Barney-Rubbling
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there a word for dragging the argument to near-unrelated topics? E.g, post about lemmy.ml having comments on whether Ukraine has a nazi government.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mort and Bailey, when they'll have a weak argument and a much stronger argument, they get you to attack the weak argument, and then they retreat to the stronger, more limited argument.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's a "motte" FYI

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