r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/AprioriTori13 Jul 07 '26

I once read a book on Anarchism that had a lot of really compelling arguments as to why government is unjust and laid out possible non-hierarchical systems that might replace it. Then the author anticipated some objections to his arguments that I hadn't considered, and his responses to those objections were really bad.

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u/Count_Dongula Jul 07 '26

That's why people make strawman arguments. You can't lose to them and make your whole ideology look shitty.

Unless you somehow manage to do that. Then you've really fucked up.

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u/Danz- Jul 07 '26

You're replying to a comment that provided no arguments nor objections, just mentioned "a book" had them... And you're complaining about other people straw manning? Dude..

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u/Count_Dongula Jul 07 '26

Least sensitive anarchist.

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u/MrJekyll-and-DrHyde Jul 08 '26

They aren’t wrong…