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Yeah, the legendary politician's fallacy:

1) We must do something.

2) This is something.

3) Therefore, we must do this.




I thought that was the voter's fallacy.


The voter's fallacy is "this happened while this guy was in power; we should replace him" repeated ad inf.




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