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		selcuka 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults You are a victim of the Nirvana fallacy [1]: "Europe is better than Turkey in terms of freedom of speech, but since neither is perfect, they are equally bad." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

aurareturn 7 months ago | [–]

You are a victim of fallacy fallacy [0]: “Just because the argument has a fallacy doesn’t make it automatically false”.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy?wprov=sf...

kelnos 7 months ago | [–]

No, but at least in this case, the fact that it's false does make it false.

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