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**** It's a subset of "stopped arguing meaningfully and dived into nonsense" rule, formalized in more generic form by [[Scott Adams]] ([http://blog.dilbert.com/post/160696999931/how-to-know-you-won-a-political-debate-on-the on his blog]):
{{quote|That’s essentially a white flag that says, “I have no logical argument, so I will say something ridiculous and act as though it is not.” }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20111127141049/http://yourargumentisinvalid.com/ This site] is dedicated to collecting [[Image Macro|image macros]] of these.
* The comedy styling of IMAO are almost all based around this (such as nuking the moon for world peace).
* This is how to win an edit war on [[The Other Wiki]], where the content is often controlled not by those with the more accurate information but by those with the strongest opinions.
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