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Logical Fallacy Bingo

Google is a megacorp of the kind that people protest all the time.

If by Google you mean Youtube, and by people you mean fundamentalist muslims, then place a chip on your "Hasty Generalization" square on your "Logical Fallacy Bingo" sheet.

Play logical fallacy bingo! It also makes a great drinking game.

No, it doesn't. Your liver isn't up to that sort of punishment, not unless what you really ought to be doing is attending AA...

Somehow, I don't suspect we'll see anything different than we saw in the first two: heated exchange of cliches and platitudes, punctuated with awkward smiles. Enjoy it while you can.

Play logical fallacy bingo! It also makes a great drinking game.

if a fucking pacemaker can be hacked and compromised [...] God help us all. Just wait until they drag us into this war with Iran here soon, and China and Russia decide to team up to end our bullshit and we end up descending into WW3.

Can you imagine the utter chaos in the U.S. when all our magic electronic boxes suddenly stop working, or worse, work silently behind our backs to sabotage and/or kill us?

I'd like to propose a new logical fallacy, the "Fireman Bill" fallacy.

That's where you start with a problem and predict a series of possible - but highly unlikely - events which lead to total catastrophe.

I don't see it on the Lofical Fallacy Bingo card. (Some are close or have similar characteristics, but none address the complete goofiness of the argument.)

Where does one go to register these things?

Posted this last debate but, still relevant. Logical Fallacy Bingo

I'll be playing Logical Fallacy Bingo against my friends. I personally expect it to be a fast bingo game.

I just feel I should point out that simply because someone is using a fallacy, doesn't make them wrong (the fact they are politicians does that... but I digress). Fallacies are commonly used rhetorical methods to convince... lets say, more emotional audiences... and practically nothing gets people more emotional than politics (religion can be more heated, but not nearly as commonly). Which is not to say it is acceptable to use them, just, well, using them shouldn't be taken as proof against the position espoused by the person who uses them (doing that is, in itself, a fallacy, though I don't care to look up the name... guilt by association? Close enough).

I'll be playing Logical Fallacy Bingo against my friends. I personally expect it to be a fast bingo game.