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Pedantic: I don't think it's really a strawman. It's conclusitory instead.
by Gibbon1 6y ago
Pedantic: I don't think it's really a strawman. It's conclusitory instead.
- hn_throwaway_99 6y agoPedantic: It is a strawman. A strawman is when you take your opponent's argument and instead recast it as a much weaker version so it's easy to tear down. In this case the actual argument I've heard made is "Experts on TV (in addition to, I might add, Bill Barr, the current US Attorney General) are saying that the hack was from the Russians because investigation insiders said it had hallmarks of known Russian hacking groups" which is being recast as the much weaker argument, which I've never heard any serious expert actually make, of "Experts on TV are saying that the hack was from the Russians just because it's such a complicated hack".