The predominantly ludicrous lawmaker from Georgia did Biden a solid this weekend, telling Republicans the Democratic president is fiendishly attempting to make people’s lives better.

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            2 years ago

            It’s not a straw man because his central claim is that all self-help gurus are inherently grifters.

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              2 years ago

              The straw man was him/her claiming that I must like Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson (two people who I am not a fan of) because I like Marianne Williamson.

              Being a self-help whatever doesn’t mean that you are automatically a grifter, it just means that you write self-help shit.

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                2 years ago

                The three people are basically inseparable in that person’s mind, because OP views them all as grifters.

                I know you disagree (I also disagree even though I also dislike Williamson), but the argument is fundamentally not a straw man