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I'm not misusing straw man. You argued against things I wasn't saying. That's a straw man. You tried to defend that free market dogma by attacked arguments abou
by quadrangle 10y ago
I'm not misusing straw man. You argued against things I wasn't saying. That's a straw man. You tried to defend that free market dogma by attacked arguments about communism and socialism that nobody but your straw man was mentioning.
You are now continuing to make more straw men. None of the rest of your comment is actually addressing anything I was saying, just arguing with some image you have of people who you think believe certain things.
Note that I happen to think your perspective is really skewed here — the vast majority of power in our society is vested in capitalist interests, the media and government and lots more are very much capitalist or capitalist-apologist, and truly dogmatic free-market ideologies (it doesn't matter whether there's a great-man behind some dogma, just the idea that the authority is some idealistic free-market theory, that's authority enough to be called "dogma" — it's super rampant, enough that it's easy to run into believers constantly.