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ZoF on Feb 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: New YC Partner Investment Policy

If either of those is a subset of the other then strawman would be a subset of satire.

hueving on Feb 2, 2014 [–]

Yeah, subset wasn't the right term. The sets intersect. Exaggeration (a form of satire) is a strawman.

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