sam fallacy

The uncontrollable urge to assume that wanting to sleep with your friends' moms is just something everyone does. It's less about logic and more about projecting your own instincts onto the world.

"He said it like it was normal—classic Sam Fallacy vibes."

by Rusty767 January 1, 2025

Bullshit Fallacy

When someone calls just calls arguments fallacies when the reasoning is actually sound.

When you called my argument a fallacy, you were actually committing the Bullshit Fallacy. Please,either make an argument or shut the fuck up.

by Mr. Walters January 23, 2025

bullshit fallacy

When someone calls an an argument a fallacy in order to deflect from its sound reasoning in order to avoid needing to form an actual rebuttal.

You committed the Bullshit Fallacy when you called my argument a fallacy when it's completely logical. Either make an actual argument or shut the fuck up.

by Mr. Walters January 23, 2025

Goldfish Fallacy

Avoiding accountability for a prior claim by pretending to not recall stating the claim, thereby avoiding the need to defend, retract, or reconcile it with current claims.

I hate Jeffery, I always knew he was terrible.
You said Jeffery was in the right last week.
No I did not, I do not remember saying that.
That is a Goldfish Fallacy, there is hard evidence of you saying that.

by Vixo38 January 26, 2026

Goldfish Fallacy

Avoiding accountability for a prior claim by pretending to not recall stating the claim, thereby avoiding the need to defend, retract, or reconcile it with current claims.

I hate Jeffery, I always knew he was a terrible person.
You said Jeffery was in the right last week.
No I did not, I do not remember saying that.
That is a Goldfish Fallacy, there is hard evidence of you saying that.

by Vixo38 January 26, 2026

Informational Fallacy

The fallacious belief that only that which can be quantified, digitally encoded, or formally computed is "real" or constitutes valid knowledge. It dismisses qualitative experiences, subjective consciousness, moral intuitions, and analog phenomena as "illusions" or "epiphenomena" because they cannot be fully captured in a discrete, measurable data stream. It's a form of extreme reductionism that mistakes the map (the informational model) for the territory (lived reality).

Example: "Love is just a biochemical algorithm for gene propagation. If you can't model it in a neural network or measure it in serotonin levels, it's not a real phenomenon, just a story we tell." This statement commits the Informational Fallacy by asserting that the computable aspect is the only reality, reducing a rich human experience to mere data processing.

by Dumuabzu February 3, 2026

TINA Fallacy

The rhetorical and ideological maneuver of declaring that the current system, policy, or state of affairs—however flawed, oppressive, or unstable—is the only possible one, thereby shutting down all debate, imagination, and political will for change. Coined from Margaret Thatcher's famous dictum "There Is No Alternative" to neoliberal capitalism, this fallacy conflates the currently dominant model with the only conceivable model. It's a form of ideological coercion that frames critique as naive, reform as impossible, and collapse as preferable to transformation. It mistakes political inertia for natural law, serving those in power by making their rule seem inevitable.

TINA Fallacy Example: A politician facing calls for a nationalized healthcare system responds, "Private insurance is the only system that works. TINA. Any other idea is a fantasy that would destroy quality and innovation." This fallacy dismisses the proven models of dozens of other nations as irrelevant, presenting the status quo not as a choice but as a force of nature, paralyzing public discourse.

by Dumuabzu February 3, 2026