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Lots of straw man wrestlers in this thread. 🥹
What does that mean (honestly, I don't know)
a straw man is a word used to describe a certain kind of logical fallacy, that being when you make up something to argue against so you sound better. in this case a "strawman Wrangler" is probably someone who's arguing against and disproving said arguments.
sloppy reading
we should be using terms we definitely know the definitions of