> @m.miller I'm going to correct this a bit. Fallacious arguments are allowed, but if they are repeated over and over and over and it turns into "preaching" the same thing, then it can become bad faith. And yes, attacking the person and not the argument is not welcome. No level of defamation will be tolerated. For instance, if someone claims "Biden is a pedophile" and the evidence they site is him touching the arm of a young girl, that's defamation.
@ThePangburn
Politicians like that are inherently "public figures" and subject to different standards for libel or slander (often loosely called "defamation", confusing legal and colloquial meanings). US case law has two defining benchmarks.
"Roxanne sleeps with her trumpet" was close enough to factually true (in a several hour interview, Ms. Pulitzer described playing the trumpet, and storing it in the corner of her bedroom), to not be libel of a public figure. A parody full page Hustler ad for Campadre liqeur, mimicing a Playboy Dewars Profile, was found so facetious that a "reasonable person" (legal "term of art") would not believe it was meant to claim Jerry Falwell actually lost his virginity to his mother while drunk in an outhouse, regardless of the disposition of the goat.
