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Reductio ad Absurdum 

A process of making something stupid because that is what Google says it is.

For Example: If you put “Reductio ad Absurdum” into Google Translate it detects the language as Latin, and translates it to English as: “Reductio ad Absurdum.”

Another Example: For years (through May 29, 2018 at least) if you ask Google "What does it mean to be an American?" it responds with this as the first answer (in a box even):

"It means that I can say "The Pledge of Allegiance" and that I can vote for the President, my county clerk, and the Mayor. But to me it means most of all to be free and to be proud that I live in the United States of America here in Wisconsin."

Dig deeper and you'll find it is written by an 10-year-old who, in addition to thinking that the U. S. is in Wisconsin, does not know that to be an American means she is free to NOT say the pledge and that she has 10 years to go before she can vote.

Thank you Google for establishing a 10-year-old as the #1 expert on what it means to be a patriot. Way to go.
If we're going to Make America Great Again we've got to stop all this Reductio ad Absurdum going on.
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Reductio Ad Absurdum 

Reductio Ad Absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity") is a logical argument that refutes a statement by proving that the premise would lead to a logically absurd and ridiculous conclusion.

Another great phrase to use against flat-earthers and other conspiracy nutjobs alike.
Flat-earther: THE EARTH IS FLAT!!!!

Me, an intellectual: Oh yeah, then explain how nobody has ever fallen off the edge of the earth. Reductio Ad Absurdum.

redactio ad absurdum 

When evidence is censored (colloquially, "redacted") by obscuration thereby reducing the quality and quantity of that evidence.

* First coined by YouTuber Viva Frei on 10/31/21
The FOIA is effectively undermined when government branches are permitted to release purely redactio ad absurdum documents.

Bagakio ad absurdum 

To cum into absurdity. Something that Is so absurd, you and the audience cum into absurdity.
I’m a simple man. I see Lana rhoades and I bagakio ad absurdum

absurdium 

A chemical element theorized to be produced by the human body in a certain percentage of the population. The element is suspected to have a clear irreversible degenerative effect on the intellect. It is also a suspected contributor to the 'Bozone Layer' effect (please see Bozone Layer and bozone)

This element is not listed in the Periodic Table. It is illusive and has not yet been synthesized in the lab, and scientists suspect that they will never be able to. Naturally, there will never be a cure that reverses absurdium's effects.
Your idea has the trademark of absurdium.

This is the most banal thing I've heard. You must be on absurdium or something.

Did someone accidentally add few absurdium drops to your kool-aid this morning?

Man, I can smell the absurdium in your breath. It should be illegal for you to think.
absurdium by Kurchatovium January 7, 2010

absurdmee 

Some idiot who likes peanut butter idfk
AbsurdMee is some idiot who likes peanut butter
absurdmee by YepDude49237 October 17, 2020

absurdulous 

the quality of being both absurd and ridiculous
People called in sick and I have to stay another eight hours. It's absurdulous!
absurdulous by Robbie708 January 8, 2014