Lil D'Bunk (2025)

28/08/2025

Dear false debaters,

So you want to be unique and different with your hot take? Take it somewhere else.

Here are some examples of false debates you may have seen:

#1: All this fuss on whether or not Apollo 11 landed on the moon. What about Apollo 12? Apollo 14? Or 15, 16, or 17?

#2: “The 2020 US election was stolen” is getting sooooo old.

#3: Correlation ≠ causation people!! Anti-vax people jump on any “scientific” evidence to back up their claims. That’s not just false debate, but also cherry picking.

#4: There is no debate about climate change. It’s happening, it’s urgent, and mankind is clearly to blame. Bernier is just one of many politicians with Big Oil stuck up his ***.

#5:Journalists: do your f’ing job.

#6: Israel is purposefully targeting Palestinian civilians. It’s a fact. Netanyahu is now a wanted war criminal. The UN has found the warfare in Gaza consistent with the characteristics of genocide. It’s not a debate, it’s a terrifying and tragic reality.

21/08/2025

If gravity has ‘two sides,’ one of them is the floor.

Watch to learn about !

15/08/2025

Arguing with a scarecrow version of someone’s point won’t win you the harvest. 🤡

Here are some examples of straw man arguments you may have seen or heard: 🧍

#1: Most of the time, parents don’t hate their teens! They can just be a little bit bratty and need to be reminded of who's boss. 😌

#2: Increasingly, people who criticize their home country, particularly the USA, are told “if you hate this country, just leave”. Wishing your country was better does not mean you hate it!! Quite the opposite - you want to help it grow! 🌳

#3: Since when does “every single person should have housing” = I’m a communist? In fact, Mamdani explicitly says that he doesn’t care what a new housing system sounds like as long as it provides housing for all!! 🏡

#4: Those who support immigration are often vilified for not caring about the people in their own country – that’s, you guessed it, straw man! 🧑‍🌾

#5: Wanting people to have access to basic human rights does not mean you support terrorism! Enough!

#6: One CBC journalist points out that killing the primary ceasefire negotiator during ceasefire negotiations doesn’t quite make sense and Poilievre takes it as the CBC mourning Hamas? How does that make any sense? 🤨

#7: In this scene from Mean Girls, Regina twists Cady’s “thank you” into a boast, making Cady seem self-absorbed. 🙄

In the Wizard of Oz, the scarecrow is missing a brain. Don’t be the scarecrow!

07/08/2025

People are throwing straw man arguments at us all the time, like… 🧐

Lil D Bunk: Global meat production is responsible for 18% of carbon emissions.
Jean on Facebook: what foolishness, next they won’t want us to fart!
(true story) 🤭

Ha um not quite Jean! But thanks for giving us an example of a straw man argument! 🤗

26/06/2025

What could Marie Antoinette, Katy Perry, Yoko Ono, and Pierre Poilievre possibly have in common? 🧐

Swipe to find out!

Poilievre: During his 2025 presidential campaign, Poilievre used immigrants as scapegoats by blaming them for the increase in housing prices. ⁉️

Trump: Trump has a loooong history of scapegoating immigrants. This doesn’t require much explanation. 👀

Trump and Biden, and a bunch of other politicians: Politicians HATE taking accountability, blaming it on the previous person is just SO MUCH easier! And the public is TOO STOOPID to know the difference right? Right?? 👎

Katy Perry: Companies, like ProActive, will try to convince you that their product is the only one that works! Raise your hand if you’ve fallen for this sh*t before and want your money back 🙋

24/06/2025

We’re all about embracing the single life (hang in there Seeda 💪).
Single cause, on the other hand, not so much!

Single cause: when someone says only one factor caused something, even though there were many reasons.

Watch Seeda Light and Lil’ D Bunk break down Single Cause!

14/06/2025

“Overrrsimplifiiicaaation” - Lil D

Sometimes things aren’t that simple. And that’s ok!

Here are some examples of oversimplification you may have seen:

A: Poilievre was trying sooo hard to make us hate the carbon tax. For the vast majority of Canadian tax payers, it wasn’t even a tax, it was a rebate! A new edition just dropped - the Canada Carbon Rebate (CCR). Check it out!

B: Taxes are not the reason companies may be moving elsewhere - it’s corporate greed. Companies can afford taxes, they just don’t want to pay them.

C: Oh Trump and his hoaxes. He just can’t get enough of them! Unfortunately for him, global warming is NOT a hoax. And just because it’s cold outside doesn’t mean that decades of scientific evidence can be thrown at the window. Let’s be for real.

D: Anti-zionism is not the same as being anti-semitc. Palestinian liberation does not mean jewish oppression. Saying that these are the same thing is a large part of why our governments have let Israel’s war crimes slide.

There you have it! Now you’re an expert debunker in oversimplification. Do you have any examples in mind that we didn’t cover? Or any questions? Leave us a comment below!

09/06/2025

“But the climate is ALWAYS changing”

**screeeech** Hold up…HUH??

It’s A LOT more complex than that.

Watch to learn about oversimplification and how to debunk it 😉

05/06/2025

Nut attack! 🌰

Let’s break down some popular ones 👇

Example A: Trump is referring to representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib, known as "The Squad". At the time of this video, their views were far more progressive than the average Democrat. And they were not leading the party.

Example B: Willie Horton was just one of many convicted criminals who participated in weekend passes, and one of very few who went on to commit more violent crimes. But, Bush used Horton to push his agenda, which helped him win the presidency. 🏆👎

Example C: Trump uses a minority of illegal immigrant criminals to qualify all illegal immigrants as violent criminals that threaten the safety of citizens. Multiple studies have found that US citizens are actually more likely to commit violent crimes than illegal immigrants.

Examples D&E: Negative stereotypes have a nutty person at the center of them. But this nut is used by the media to silence groups that threaten them. Now, popular stereotypes like feminists hate all men, vegans shove their veganism in your face, and all activists are anarchists, agitators, and looters, are everywhere!

Don’t build your case off of the loudest, weirdest dude in the room. It's lazy.

02/06/2025

Imagine using your drunk uncle’s 2am Facebook post to summarize an entire political movement.
Congrats—you’ve just performed a perfect Nut-Picking Fallacy. 🥜🎯
One guy yelling about QAnon 🤡 at Thanksgiving doesn’t mean everyone who voted for Trump is a conspiracy theorist.

28/04/2025

The election is here - what bad logic did candidates use during their campaigns?

Let’s break it down ⬇️

Poilievre campaigned on fighting the “woke” agenda (*ahem* sound familiar?). “Persecuted victim” arguments make people feel like there’s a big bad thing out there (in this case: les woke) and the only way to stop it is to VOTE FOR ME!

Faulty generalization
1. Pipelines in Quebec - Carney said he would use federal powers to emergency approve energy projects (for oil or other sources), but never said he would do so without Quebec’s permission
2. Defunding Ukraine - Not entirely accurate. Poilievre has promised massive cuts but has vowed to continue supporting Ukraine.
3. Forced oil and gas in Quebec - Carney said he will review the budget but will protect transfers to individuals and provinces, + promises to spend more on healthcare. Poilievre wants to cut down waste and red tape + cutting the size of public services but vows to protect healthcare and daycare.

Cherry picking
1. 6 Houses - Although it is true that CMHC only built 6 non-profit housing units alone under Poilievre, over 4,000 non-profit homes and co-ops were built through partnerships with private companies.
2. High taxes - this comes from a 2023 Fraser Institute report, a right leaning think-tank. In their calculations, they included down payments on future benefits (aka not taxes!) and did not take into account rebates or inflation. When you do that, the change in taxes as % of income is virtually unchanged since 2016.
3. Liberal Crime Wave - Canada is relatively much safer than it has been historically, especially since the 80s and 90s. However, Poilievre is cherry picking certain crime statistics and comparison years that prove his point.

Bill C-69: C-69 allows the federal government to look at the impact that resource development projects could have on climate change. It does not mean that they automatically slash every oil and gas-related project!

Remember to tomorrow!

24/04/2025

Appeal to Coincidence!

Example A: We all love Charlie Brown but he’s not known for his use of great logic. Use your critical thinking Charlie! 🏈

Example B: Remember how Big To***co used 🍒 cherry-picking 🍒 to manipulate us? They used an appeal to coincidence as well! They claimed the link between cancer and smoking to***co was coincidental, not causational. 🤨

Example C: Following in Big To***co’s footsteps - Big Oil did it too! 😱

Example D: Religions ignoring scientific evidence of evolution and blaming coincidence on certain scientific discoveries are appealing to coincidence. 🙈🙉

Example E: Elon Musk says it was a gesture of love to his supporters 😍, but does he love all of his supporters equally? Based on things he's recently said and promoted, (*ahem* the far-right, nazi-sympathizing party in Germany) it seems not. It’s hard to argue that he wasn’t appealing to coincidence! 😬

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