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_diyaryesterday at 2:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

No because the goomba is the average of two real opinions, and the strawman is a distortion/reduction of any opinion such that its easy to argue against.


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tadfisheryesterday at 5:45 PM

More like a superposition of two opinions.

SV_BubbleTimeyesterday at 4:15 PM

Ah, ok, so two real opinions made into a distortion. Right, I see how very dissimilar to an origin story of a strawman that is…

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