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Show Notes The Silent Majority Fallacy is committed when someone assumes all or most of the people who aren't vocally disagreeing with them, in fact agree with them. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump implying people who don't protest his immigration policies are on his side: We followed that with this...

Show Notes The Argument by Vehemence is committed when someone gets loud, angry or indignant in place of making an actual argument. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump failing to answer a question about COVID: We followed that with this clip of Trump shouting over Biden in their first debate: Mark's British...

Show Notes The Toupée Fallacy is a type of Argument from Ignorance where someone doesn't notice evidence that would prove that they don't notice confounding evidence, such as when someone claims that all toupées are bad because they've never seen a convincing one (possibly because if it was convincing, they wouldn't...

Show Notes The Appeal to Loyalty Fallacy is committed when someone suggests you should believe a truth claim due to the loyalty you feel to the person making the claim, or suggests that if you don't believe something you are being disloyal. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump on the...

 Show Notes The Amazing Familiarity Fallacy is committed when someone makes an argument based on information they couldn't possibly have, such as what someone else is thinking. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump claiming to know what the Founding Fathers wanted: We followed that with this clip of Trump falsely claiming...

Show Notes The Argument from Silence Fallacy is committed when someone assumes that no response from their opponent is is proof that they are right. Trump We started out with this this quote from Trump's book "How to Get Rich" “All of the women on ‘The Apprentice’ flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously....

 Show Notes The Survivorship Bias Fallacy is committed when someone makes an argument based on a biased sample that only includes items that have survived some kind of selection pressure. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump literally talking to a group of survivors: We followed that with this Trump tweet: And finally...

Show Notes The Appeal to Fiction Fallacy is committed when someone tries to use something that happened in a work of fiction to back up their claim about the real world. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump making various claims about the border, many of which were in fact things...

 Show Notes The Broken Window Fallacy is committed when someone tries to claim when a bad thing happens, that good things will result from it, which makes it OK. Trump We started out with this clip of Trump claiming tariffs, which raise prices for US consumers, will make the US a richer nation: We...

Show Notes The Sunk Cost Fallacy is committed when someone justifies maintaining or extending a course of action based on the cost already incurred (whether in terms of money, time, effort or intellectual capital). Trump We started out with this clip of Trump justifying sending 4000 more troops into Afghanistan in August of...

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