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A rhetorical bias where one parodies a serious concept by substituting it with an obviously fictional analog—the Flying Spaghetti Monster—and then treats the original as equally absurd. The bias often appears in debates about nation-states, ideologies, or legal systems: inventing a fictional counterpart (e.g., “Free Popular West” for NATO, “Kingdom of Abzu” for the EU, “USSR 2.0” for Russia) and then engaging with that parody as if it were the actual subject. This moves discussion away from substantive analysis into performative dismissal. The bias mistakes the possibility of parody for the absence of real-world referents, ignoring that institutions have histories, agency, and consequences that a satirical replacement does not capture.
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