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Re:Why do the poor make poor decisions? by mcphage on Monday June 06, 2016 @06:51PM (#11851134)
> Anyway, these aren't straw-man arguments.

rco8786 says that it's possible to eat cheaply and healthily, and you respond like he's talking about heirloom tomatoes and caprese salad. That is absolutely a straw man.

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Re:Why do the poor make poor decisions? by humanrebar on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:21PM (#11852169)
If that's true, so is pretending that poor people haven't heard of rice and beans before.
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Re:Why do the poor make poor decisions? by mcphage on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @08:02AM (#11853828)
The whole point of me listing Rice and Beans was that it was a cheap and healthy food that poor people have heard of, and have eaten for thousands of years. So no, that's not a straw man, unlike what you said.
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