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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Right, all those poor hungry people who are one imaginary burger away from dying to malnutrition. Good thing they have you on their side!

A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".