Derailing & Fallacies Masterclass: Graduate from Yahoo Answers to Topix

Pol Pot’s Pleasure PWNK

I can’t stand Pol Pot because he’s really nasty. I don’t think he is my leader.

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Yeah but isn’t his adversary Ho Chi Minh nasty too? Would you protest if Ho Chi Minh was in power instead?

#NotAllJihadis

Political Islamists are utter vermin.

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Political Islamism isn’t monolithic!

Neither were Nazism or Sovietism. You ever hear about Stalin’s show trials, or the Night of the Long Knives?

Classical Whataboutery: Other Guys are Nasty Too (I)

There is no such thing as a moderate political Islamist. The only moderate political Islamist is a dead political Islamist.

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Neocons aren’t moderate either! 

Classical Whataboutery: Other Guys are Nasty too (II)

Neocons are destroying this country with their incessant warmongering!

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Jihadists are also violent, you frickin’ terrorist sympathizer! 

What’s the difference?

Reflexive Whataboutery (Defensive Self-Apologetics)

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How dare you smear Hillary as a warmonger! Don’t you remember what Bush did? I sure as hell do!

I remember all too well. That’s why I criticize her for doing exactly the same thing…. But I guess you already knew that anyway!

 Mascot Whataboutery (Defensive Alter-Apologetics)

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How dare you say some dyslexic people have trouble reading! Didn’t you know blind people have trouble reading too?

And your FUCKING POINT IS…?!

Originally published on Satirical Industrial Complex.

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