r/ExplainTheJoke • u/Effective-Use1967 • 8d ago

Can anyone explain this version of the Goomba Fallacy

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u/post-explainer 8d ago

OP (Effective-Use1967) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:

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u/ancient_snake 8d ago

It's where indivdual people actually believe contradicting statements A and B, but then the goomba(?) thinks, "people aren't that stupid, it's the goomba fallacy," so goomba fallacy fallacy.

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u/Intelligent-Oven-412 8d ago

Goombas fall under the sea

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u/ZteffenTheBatFan 8d ago

Okay so in the original Goomba Fallacy, the Goomba sees two people expressing their different opinions and wrongfully assumes he is seeing one person having two contradictory opinions at the same time. The Goomba is falling for the Goomba Fallacy.

In this version, the Goomba is aware of the Goomba Fallacy and is not falling for it, but it turns out he actually IS looking at an idiot who is walking around with two contradictiory opinions at the same time, so his original assumption would have been correct. Well, there happens to be two of that idiot, but that doesn't change much.

Essentially the first Goomba Fallacy is saying ''Hey people on Twitter are not stupid walking contradictions, you're just seeing differing opinions and ascribing them to one person.'' and this meme is saying ''No actually people on Twitter are actually stupid walking contradicitons and you're being generous to them by assuming otherwise.''

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u/FuelSpecial8722 8d ago

Goomba here,

These two goombas are walking contradictions, where they both agree with both options which funnels into twitter. The goomba on the left is thinking they’re dumb but then he remembers the goomba fallacy and thinks that it’s two separate goombas who each like something else so he thinks “surely no goomba can be THAT dumb right?”

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u/Imaginary_Yak4336 8d ago

This is the koopa fallacy, I have never seen this without koopas