• adjectivenoun@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          A strawman is where you invent a different argument, then defeat it. Rephrasing the exact argument you made in funnier language isn’t a strawman. It’s just what you said, but more plainly. “Voting doesn’t work because I don’t always get what I want.” That’s what you said in literal English.

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            4 days ago

            Rephrasing the exact argument you made in funnier language isn’t a strawman.

            it is, and your quibbling belies bad faith