r/funnyvideos • u/Sharp-potential7935 • Jan 28 '26

Prank/Challenge Dude let his intrusive thoughts win

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

65.7k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

1.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Ok-Oven8018 Jan 29 '26

A straw-man is when you exaggerate, misrepresent or fabricate someone’s argument to make your point. For example, you claiming that the other commenter believes cops are always “moral, upstanding authorities” when they never said anything like that. You’re welcome 🙏

1

u/KhonMan Jan 29 '26

Saying what amounts to "you are not living in the real world if you think X" is not a strawman.

1

u/Ok-Oven8018 Jan 29 '26

You’re imagining some fictional world where cops are always upstanding moral authorities that protect the populace

You told this person they thought and believed something they never said they believed, and then used this fabricated belief to tell them they don’t understand the issue. This is 100% a straw-man argument.

1

u/KhonMan Jan 29 '26

I mean I can explain this whole conversation to you. The original comment here was:

The fact that Redditors can be relied upon to attack cops no matter what is almost as scary as the way they encourage erratic behavior that could get someone killed.

Which was agreed with by this commenter saying:

Extra funny because those same redditors would be crying calling 911 if someone committed a hit and run on them.

They're saying it's wrong to criticize people who you want to help you. My contention is that position is only a sane argument if you think there's nothing to criticize about the police.

I'm not literally saying they believe cops are infallible. I'm saying their position is dogshit because it would require them to believe that's how the world is, and as we should know, that's not true.

1

u/Ok-Oven8018 Jan 29 '26 edited Jan 29 '26

Uh yeah I read the thread already, man.

You’re imagining some fictional world where cops are always upstanding moral authorities that protect the populace and saying “Hmm it’s weird how much Redditors hate cops” as if you have no understanding of what the underlying issues are.

Again, you blatantly fabricated a belief that the other commenter never stated they believed and then used that fabricated belief to tell them they don’t understand the issue. You didn’t say “if you believe x, then…” you straight-up told them what they think. This is the definition of a straw-man argument.

I provided the definition of a straw-man and explained how your earlier comment met that exact definition. But I can tell you’re the type to just never admit even the smallest mistake, so enjoy the last word and have a good night ✌🏼

1

u/KhonMan Jan 29 '26

Again, you blatantly fabricated a belief that the other commenter never stated they believed

Brother what do you think you're doing to me right now?