October 31, 2024
Smoke, mirrors, and fallacies
By Kevin Finn
If you’ve been engaging with leftists for very long you know that they have very few arrows in their quiver of debate tactics. One is that they’ll simply lie. The “very fine people” story is a prime example.
Another is that they’ll accuse us of what they’re doing, aka psychological projection. An example here is falsely accusing President Trump of engaging in a quid pro quo with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Meanwhile Joe Biden is on video bragging about withholding U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine until/unless they fired the prosecutor investigating the company that was employing his son.
A third tactic leftists use is to employ one or more of the Logical Fallacies. These are flawed arguments that sound credible but which can lead us to erroneous conclusions. Look back through your debates with leftists and see how often you come across arguments like these:
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