Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)

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[-] corbin@awful.systems 6 points 3 months ago

Somebody quotes Paul Graham's rules for argument at him: shot, chaser.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 3 months ago

they live glasses on

I THINK ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE DOING ELECTION FRAUD

DUAL CITIZENSHIP EXISTS

LET ME MISS THE POINT EQUALLY HARD IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION, OR AT LEAST HOPEFULLY SO

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

There's got to be a term for the rhetorical technique of "this reasonable-sounding statement is one of the conclusions I draw from my unhinged conspiracy theories, and therefore the whole structure is true!"

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