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andthedevilissix t1_j1jjdk8 wrote

>This tribal belief that your party is the second coming of Christ and can do no wrong, and the other party is the reincarnation of Statan himself.

I just don't understand why people don't see how cringe it is to base their personalities around politicians. It would be so much better if we could all go back to understanding that politicians are all pieces of shit.

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JustNilt t1_j1kcrcy wrote

Post hoc ergo propter hoc is a pretty shit take on anything. The vast majority of people don't base their personalities around politicians. They support politicians who support things they also support.

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andthedevilissix t1_j1np9ui wrote

> The vast majority of people don't base their personalities around politicians.

Yea, there's definitely not a cult of personality around Trump. You're right and very smart.

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JustNilt t1_j1ntl36 wrote

Yeah but that's not the vast majority of people, now is it?

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_j1kcsiz wrote

Post hoc ergo propter hoc

>Post hoc ergo propter hoc (Latin: 'after this, therefore because of this') is an informal fallacy that states: "Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X." It is often shortened simply to post hoc fallacy. A logical fallacy of the questionable cause variety, it is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'), in which two events occur simultaneously or the chronological ordering is insignificant or unknown. Post hoc is a logical fallacy in which one event seems to be the cause of a later event because it occurred earlier.

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