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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He actually never said he needed that to sleep at night. Textbook case of a strawman argument. You can do better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wasn’t making an argument, just a dismissal

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

just a dismissal

Sorry, that would be an Appeal to the stone fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone