Classic. I criticise, you characterise me as some kind of foaming-at-the-mouth deranged liberal. Mate, I'm just a 70-year old crusty popping in from the workshop while I take a break from me woodturning. But of course you know all that, you're just having fun with a bit of trolling.I find it strange and bizarre when my views - which I happily acknowledge are non conventional and possibly extreme - are more moderate and less extreme than the concensus presented here. I am supposed to be the one wearing the tinfoil hat, not everyone else. It's odd, and unsettling. It usually means I have misunderstood something.
Sometimes it only means the concensus has disappeared up its own bottom. The alt-left is just as deranged as the alt-right, except pointing out the emperor might be naked gets you into serious hot water, deplatformeded, or even cancelled. Got to love the left - so accepting and welcoming of differences of opinion.
Hey, 70 is now the new 50 something these daysClassic. I criticise, you characterise me as some kind of foaming-at-the-mouth deranged liberal. Mate, I'm just a 70-year old crusty popping in from the workshop while I take a break from me woodturning. But of course you know all that, you're just having fun with a bit of trolling.
Could you explain your repeated use of the term “straw man”. It doesn’t really equate to my understanding of the term. But perhaps I’m just being a bit thick.Oh well done, there's at 3 in that post
Ad hominem
Appeal to extremes
Strawman
Are you actually able to debate without logical fallacies?
I guess honest debating would cramp your style
There is a classic straw man argument in the post Robin was responding to. It starts with the subtle (but entirely wrong and deceptive) "you seem to be inferring", which TN uses to pivot away from the points he is responding to and instead towards a made-up easy target for himself to argue against, which isn't anything anyone had actually said. Easy win.Could you explain your repeated use of the term “straw man”. It doesn’t really equate to my understanding of the term. But perhaps I’m just being a bit thick.
It is where a debater creates a new argument, which can be defeated....not the principle argument.Could you explain your repeated use of the term “straw man”. It doesn’t really equate to my understanding of the term. But perhaps I’m just being a bit thick.
Guns in America kill 10,000 people a year......"yeah but what about people dying from alcohol"Don't forget whataboutery ............. another favourite.
Take the above:hardly a colossal victory for Biden, Justice and the American Way, is it? You seem to be inferring (and if you have watched the BBC and read the Guardian I quite understand why) that Trump is universally reviled and despised by virtually everyone in the world except a few lonely nutters and racist loonies