Objective Truth Fallacy

A fallacy and metafallacy where one invokes "objective truth" not as a genuine commitment to inquiry but as a rhetorical weapon to legitimize their own worldview while delegitimizing all others. The fallacy lies in claiming that one's framework simply is objective reality, that one's conclusions are truth itself, and therefore that any alternative is not just wrong but unreal. It's a metafallacy because it preemptively immunizes one's position from critique—if you claim to speak for objective truth itself, then challenging you is challenging reality. The Objective Truth Fallacy transforms the legitimate pursuit of truth into a cudgel for intellectual domination, using the concept of objectivity to shut down inquiry rather than advance it.

Example: "He didn't argue that his view was supported by evidence—he claimed it was objective truth, and that anyone who disagreed was simply denying reality. Classic Objective Truth Fallacy: using the concept of truth to avoid having to demonstrate it."

by Dumu The Void March 13, 2026

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Post-Truth Scaremongering

The strategic use of exaggerated threats about the "post-truth era" to justify censorship, dismiss dissent, and protect established power from scrutiny. Post-truth scaremongering treats any challenge to official narratives, any skepticism about institutional claims, any alternative information sources as threats to democracy, reason, and civilization itself. It's the pundit who blames every political problem on "post-truth" without examining why people stopped trusting institutions; the fact-checker who treats all misinformation as equivalent, from genuine errors to legitimate critique; the establishment that uses "post-truth" as a cudgel against anyone who questions its version of reality. The scaremongering serves power by making dissent itself seem like a threat to truth—painting those who ask awkward questions as enemies of reality.

Example: "He called any reporting that contradicted the official narrative 'post-truth propaganda'—Post-Truth Scaremongering, using the concept of truth to protect power from accountability."

by Dumu The Void March 14, 2026

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Plastic trout

Someone who looks like another fish in the sea when they're actually garbage.

I thought he was The One, but he was actually a plastic trout.

by Areadien April 18, 2025

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the truth

the chosen one.

"tsu is the truth"

by TheTsu. May 11, 2025

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Tennessee Trout Bugger

When you are on a boat with an Intimate partner, and you engage in the act of anal sex then take the shit covered and cum filled condom and catch a trout with it, to then you reel it in and gut it and place the innards into your partners gaped hole.

ex.
1-"Dude i went fishing with the homeless lady that's always hanging around the 7/11 last weekend "
2-"You're a sick man, did you atleast get a rusty trombone out of it?"
1-"Nah dude but i convicted her to let me try the Tennessee trout bugger on her it was so fucking hot"

by Uncle_Rickyrapem July 5, 2025

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