The Christmas Fallacy

Your boss's belief that, no matter how much work there is to be done, it will all be finished before the Christmas holidays so "we can start next year with a clean slate." See also "work smarter not harder."

"This is a joke. We'll never get it done before Christmas."

"Yeah, I know. The Christmas Fallacy. Fancy a beer?"

by gav-wan December 2, 2021

The Jedi Fallen Order Disaster

One faithful night, a young kid from New Jersey named Chris Dorner was playing Jedi Fallen Order. All was going well until he got to the last level of the game. He was fighting the Second Sister when he started to get a little angry. He started yelling and screaming and said "FUCK THIS BITCH!!!!!" to a bunch of pixels that were kicking his ass. Papa Dorner came in and said, "CHRIS!" and there was the sound of Chris disconnecting from the discord call. It was a sight to bold and Chris Dorner is a bitch.

Hey Chris Dorner you remember The Jedi Fallen Order Disaster?

by Chris Dorner Bitch March 4, 2023

The Monika Fallacy

The willing ignorance of an individual behind a piece of work that was created with the assistance of AI for the purposes of focusing solely on the AI itself or dismissing the work's creator.

I could have just used "Created by AI" in the above sentence, but that in of itself is an example of The Monika Fallacy, as AI is incapable of creating anything without some kind of human input.

by Barbara Kirkland8702 December 25, 2023

The Lamb Fallacy

Definition: The Lamb Fallacy, or Fallacia Agnorum, is a type of faulty reasoning marked by intentional deception. It occurs when misleading information is used to create a distorted view of reality, leading people to accept conclusions that are logically unsound. Key features include deceptive premises, distorted conclusions, an intent to deceive, and flaws in the logical structure. The term highlights how individuals can be misled and underscores the importance of critically evaluating information.

In a political discourse, the speaker employed The Lamb Fallacy by selectively presenting data to support their narrative, intentionally distorting the information to mislead the audience into accepting a conclusion that did not accurately reflect the true state of affairs.

by Speech Increased January 28, 2024

The Maxwell Fallacy

An over reliance on AI and using AI erroneously. Asking leading questions to large language models and to generate a desired response and using that response as proof to the baws.

Stephen is committing the Maxwell Fallacy when he asks ChatGPT leading questions to get the answer he wants and posts the screenshots in the B2M group as proof

by Baw2Man April 8, 2025

Poisoning the Position Fallacy

A political form of Poisoning the Well where a position is discredited by associating it with extreme or reviled ideologies, regardless of the actual views of those who hold it. Accusing all BRICS+ supporters of "Nazbol/Duginism/Z Nationalism" regardless of their actual reasons is a classic example. The move poisons the position by painting anyone who holds it as tainted by association with extremism. The fallacy lies in treating political alignment as evidence of ideology, ignoring the diversity of reasons people might support something. It's guilt by association applied to positions, not just people—poisoning the position so no one can hold it without being tainted.

Poisoning the Position Fallacy "I support BRICS+ because of multipolarity and economic cooperation. Response: 'Oh, so you're a Duginist Nazi-Bolshevik!' That's Poisoning the Position Fallacy—associating my position with extremism to discredit it, regardless of my actual views. My reasons are mine; their associations are theirs. Poisoning the position avoids engaging what I actually think by tarring it with brushes I never touched."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

Law of the Valid Fallacies

The principle that there exists a class of arguments that are technically fallacious by formal standards yet genuinely valid in practice—reasoning that works even though it breaks the rules. These "valid fallacies" include arguments that persuade reasonable people despite logical flaws, inferences that lead to true conclusions through invalid steps, and reasoning that succeeds where formal logic fails. The law of the valid fallacies acknowledges that human reasoning is richer than formal logic, and that sometimes the technically invalid is practically sound. It's the logic of "it shouldn't work, but it does," of the intuitive leaps that turn out right, of the arguments that convince because they're right even though they're wrong by the book.

Example: "Her argument was technically fallacious—circular reasoning, begging the question. But it was also true, and everyone knew it. The law of the valid fallacies said: sometimes the fallacy is valid. The circularity didn't make it false; it just made it formally invalid. Formal invalidity and practical truth can coexist."

by Dumu The Void February 17, 2026