• Xoriff@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    “sick-puppet-ish”. Haven’t heard that one before. Checked urban dictionary but… I’m guessing that’s not what you were going for?

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      8 months ago

      Sorry that should have been sock puppet.

      It’s a (usually bad) way to make an argument; you stand up a false opponent to argument, but because you’re writing both sides they tend to come around.

      You’ll see it a lot in “FAQs” put out by, for example, religiously minded folks “Sinners always ask how Boba Fet got out of the Sarlac pit”

      (Answer: he didn’t that’s a Disney myth to sell more merch.)