WARNING: Anecdotal support
I've noticed from my Facebook feed that older generations and self-identified conservative friends overwhelmingly tend to share posts, information, or web news stories that are objectively false or espouse an opinion as fact. False dichotomies/dilemmas are their favorite flavor of fallacy.
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"It's a great day for hockey."
-'Badger' Bob Johnson (1931-1991)
"I see as much misery out of them moving to justify theirselves as them that set out to do harm."
-Dr. Amos "Doc" Cochran
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