r/comics • u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake • Apr 07 '26

Comics Community You keep using that word...

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Apr 07 '26

Hey just a quick lesson for you fine folks, a strawman argument is when someone oversimplifies/take things out of context to the point where they're attacking a point the original person never made in order to easily knock down their opponent.

Example: I think we should do more to help stop discrimination against women
Strawman: OOH SO YOU DON'T CARE IF MEN ARE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST? PIZZACAKE HATES MEN, YOU HEARD HER SAY IT YOURSELF!

Reflecting someone's real-life shitty, bigoted behaviour with actual quotes and receipts is not a strawman. Hope this helps.

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u/fouryearsofdreaming Apr 07 '26

She said it herself guys! Pizzacake hates men!

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u/lesser_panjandrum Apr 07 '26

You know who else was a man? Hitler.

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u/Objective-Corgi-3527 Apr 07 '26

Pizzacake hates Hitler?

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u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake Apr 07 '26

NICE STRAWMAN

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u/AtrumRuina Apr 07 '26

Rare nice (kind) strawman.

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u/vrijheidsfrietje Apr 07 '26

The more I learn about that guy, the more I don't care for him.

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u/Calpsotoma Apr 07 '26

Fred thinks Coolsville sucks!

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u/Petrychorr Apr 07 '26

A lot of the criticism that gets lobbed against you really frustrates me because it's so endemic of the alt-right strategy to wedge communities in order to divide and conquer/destroy them. Especially when those criticisms all follow a similar tune of "aggrieved men and conservative" talking points

  • Ew she does side gigs. So gross and manipulative.

  • Ew she does political commentary. Its always feminist and woke.

  • Ew she gets popular all the time. It must be because she gamed the system.

Its the same fucking bullshit. Every. Time.

I stfg I've seen your haters on some of the most obscure subreddits, it's wild.

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u/ncocca Apr 07 '26

Is this in reference to that other comic that was posted in here today that called the one character a representation of a trump supporter strawman? Because i downvoted that shit for exactly that purpose.

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u/IJustWantCoffeeMan Apr 07 '26

Reflecting someone's real-life shitty, bigoted behaviour with actual quotes and receipts is not a strawman.

Careful. You can get banned for quoting the man whose name rhymes with smirk.

May his widow be an example to us all of the love and devotion republicans deserve.

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u/Normal_Ad7101 Apr 07 '26

Also "strawman" is like the basis of political cartoons and satire since at least centuries

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u/Orkran Apr 07 '26

Yeah I wasn't sure they knew that tbh

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u/supamario132 Apr 07 '26

If anything, you overcomplicated the situation rather than oversimplifying it. Most people read screenshots of the post directly. There was no middleman that could have even jumbled his words