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One of my favorite fallacies is the fallacy fallacy. Just because one used fallacious reasoning, doesn't mean they're wrong. e.g. I can give a bad reason for why 16/64 = 1/4, just cross out the 6's, but just because the reason is bad doesn't mean the result is wrong.

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In this case the fallacy was (US perspective)-- just because the Orange-Haired Man said it, doesn't make it wrong.

Admitting this fallacy would be too much to expect from political partisans. The guy is not a very stable genius, but he's not always 100% wrong either.

> the Orange-Haired Man

Carrot Top?

Not sure why downvoted. Trump is the orange-face man, not hair.

Jeff McKissack, a mail carrier in Houston, Texas, transformed a small suburban lot near his wood frame house into The Orange Show in honor of his favorite fruit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orange_Show

Yes, this case has generated an amount of "Hitler was a vegetarian" cases.

More "shockingly", some perceived in certain circles that an amount of "odd actors" acted to throw gasoline on every spark, enticing savage gut reactions. Another blow to civilization, opinion benders encouraging towards the dismissal of clean evaluation, mining the pillar that after "He said we walk using feet!!!" the response should be "Actually, ", not "Boo!".

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