Fart smelling in /r/TodayILearned! User learns what a Gish Gallop is. The comments are about as productive as you'd expect.
25 2017-08-27 by Byrnhildr_Sedai
Bardfinn showing us the proper way to iamverysmart and sniff farts. While others don't really do much better.
General shit show as everyone tries to make the same lol trump joke.
Some how its only a right wing(Nazis) thing. Despite there being literally garbage copy pastas of gish gallops spammed in /r/politics hitting /r/bestof near weekly.
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1 SovietWarfare 2017-08-27
Oh look, more users who don't know a damn worth of politics. Oh boy.
1 80BAIT08 2017-08-27
Holy fucking shit what a neckbeard. /u/Bardfinn has his own set of rules for people replying to him he made for his userpage.
1 Ed_ButteredToast 2017-08-27
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Take your fucking trash elsewhere, or eat it yourself and choke on it. Stop leaving it on my doorstep.
1 _Petronius 2017-08-27
That's one of the saddest things I've ever read. What a loser.
1 Kebabchichi 2017-08-27
/u/Bardfinn you should definitely Keep Yourself Safe
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1 wootfatigue 2017-08-27
CYS.
1 pizzashill 2017-08-27
Why do reddit neckbeards constantly screech about fallacies like this?
You can point them out sometimes, but invoking a fallacy isn't the "automatic argument" win they seem to think it is.
Ironically, them doing this is also a fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
1 WikiTextBot 2017-08-27
Argument from fallacy
Argument from fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad reasons fallacy.
Fallacious arguments can arrive at true conclusions, so this is an informal fallacy of relevance.
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1 nanonan 2017-08-27
I have yet to see Gish Gallp accurately applied even though I've seen people accuse others of doing it hundreds of times. In reality it means "You've presented many convincing arguments and I would be lucky to even begin to refute a single one of your points so I'll pretend they are all lies".
1 pizzashill 2017-08-27
The only times I've seen actual Gish Gallop is on /r/conspiracy where they post a huge wall of 9/11 "facts" that are all bullshit.
The anti-vaxxers have one too, it's a copy pasta of 120 studies that prove "vaccines cause autism" and not a single one of them says that.
1 Byrnhildr_Sedai 2017-08-27
I see it with the garbage link of "Do you think Republicans and Democrats are the same?"
And its all bills and how they are voted on. However, the post has no links to the bills, and is using very one sided bill names. Like no Republicans voted for the "Give everyone puppies act!" and if you read the actual bill it had a lot of shit like extra spending for Gun Control. It hits /r/bestof a lot.
1 nanonan 2017-08-27
There is only one Gish Gallop on the internet, and it's the timecube guy.
1 49813165465798412565 2017-08-27
I thought Gish Gallop could also mean an argument that's got so many sources (regardless of validity) that your opponent can't possibly refute every single on in any reasonable amount of time, so you declare victory because they only managed 15/40 "sources".
1 aliceunknown 2017-08-27
I can't decide if that's a dare or a double dare..
1 holy_black_on_a_popo 2017-08-27
It's a cry for help