The Fallacy of the Beard
Get your opponent to concede a point by burdening them with defining a strict threshold. Break their claim into smaller and smaller components and keep zooming in until you are looking at such tiny things that their original claims seem overblown.
This man has a beard! Does he? Yes clearly! 20mm hair on chin!
Would he have a beard I mean an actual beard if it was 5mm? No that’s just stubble! Where does it become a beard, at 10mm? I guess!
So a man with 9mm hair has stubble? Yes! And he grows one measly millimeter of chin hair in on one of the hairs and BAM WHOA he has a beard now?
Edit: Not calling your question out as disingenuous, but trying to prevent it being abused.
Like an order of magnitude worse?
- No sitting president before him has been a convicted felon.
- No sitting president before him has been involved in the sheer volume of sexual scandals from assault to cheating to being implicated in possible pedophilia.
- No sitting president before him has refused to return literally boxes and boxes of classified documents which he kept as trophies (or possibly as items for sale) while storing them in extremely inappropriate ways. (This is extremely different from Biden, btw, who promptly returned a few accidentally retained documents. Trump was playing shell games with them, repeatedly swearing he had returned them all while doing things like loading them on planes to move to other locations, etc.)
- No sitting president before him has attempted to overthrow the government when they lost an election.
- The level of bribery and corruption in his administration is off the charts.
- The number of lies he tells has always been off the charts. (“I’ve never heard of Project 2025!” while having given a speech to its members and now following its plans to dismantle the federal government.)
- His department heads have all been picked to dismantle the departments they’re in. (Project 2025 again)
And then of course there is the christofascism angle, which is extremely disturbing because he definitely plans to never leave power again. He’s currently trying hard to normalize use of military force against US citizens so he can seize control of the elections to make sure they go his way.
Whoa you’re gonna scare people with those facts!
Ok, all true.
Just was hoping we could deep dive in american history but now I remember this site is still pretty shallow.
If this is your reaction to a thoughful response, you are not going to find deep discussions anywhere, even where they exist.
So fucking sensitive
He’s probably going to go down in history as the worst 'Murica has ever had
I hope there’s nobody worse than him because it’s already tough to see the world not really suffering as a result of his shitfuckery
This is because of Trump, and others, practicing multiple forms of Catholicism (Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are the big three). Of course, every single politician gets their marching orders from the Pope in the Vatican, and all these false flags we’ve been seeing are Jesuit rituals designed to basically embarrass us. Ask my producer, Neigsendoig, how we’ve learned that.
If the Pope was in charge health care would be single-payer, abortion would be emergency-only, and both gay marriage and capital punishment would be illegal.
I wish I had the faith in human competency that conspiracy theorists demonstrate, but I think the truth is that humans are far stupider than that.
I’m super atheist, I really hate religion and can’t stand any form of it but even I’m like “what the fuck?”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
How’s that tinfoil working out for you?
Is your scalp itchy?
Poor thing must have accidentally made it with the shiny side facing in instead of out…
America were always (at least since Carter, 2nd world war ? Not American I probably forgot my president) colonialist in their exterior politics… now they’re facist about it.
Do you smell toast?
