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bucolic_frolic

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3. Baloney is logical fallacies which are mental abuse

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Sat Sep 27, 2025, 09:17 AM

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These are intimately tied up with advertising, power, the maintenance of social control.

If I can make you believe something, even if it's simply impossible, I can spoon feed you all day long. That's the basis for this entire era.

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Morelle: Here's the problem whenever the president speaks - It's an endless series of baloney. [View all] Swede Saturday OP

But he's a Democrat dwayneb Saturday #1

They eat baloney and drink Bud Lite PJMcK Saturday #2

Baloney is logical fallacies which are mental abuse bucolic_frolic Saturday #3

The problem is that when he speaks "baloney", an army of followers take him seriously. Midnight Writer Saturday #4

The old Gish Gallop Tommy Carcetti Saturday #5