Gish Gallop
Overloading is when you don't have a single good argument to defend your position so you produce a long string of bad arguments instead. Your audience might be fooled, and your opponent will waste all of their time trying to debunk your half-baked claims.
"The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
- Alberto Brandolini
Example
The government doesn't want you to know that the Earth is flat. It's part of their secret plan to enslave humanity. They put fluoride in the water to keep you docile so you don't see the truth of reality. NASA, the moon landing, space station - it's all lies. They filmed it in a Hollywood studio. NASA soldiers guard the ice wall at the edge of the flat Earth to keep the truth a secret...
Famous Examples
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Listen, I know what tyranny means, I know the bankers are putting poison in our food and water. I know the bankers have stolen 8.5 trillion. I know we're under the War Powers Act. I know they're hurting us, I know they're carrying out New Word Order, I know they staged those terror attacks.
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Look, when you realize how fake it all is; the football, the basketball, the Lady Gaga, the Justin Bieber—you know, who gives you these carbon tax messages... They tell your kids they gotta love Justin Biebler, and then Biebler says "hand in your guns", "pass the Cyber Security Act", and "the police state is good", and then your children are turned into a mindless vassals...
Context: The "Justin Biebler" Rant -
The Arctic which is now 9000 Manhattans over the low point of 2007, sea level which contrary to predictions of it accelerating has actually dropped, an historic drop according to the European Space Agency and NASA, polar bears at a near historic population high, global temperatures that hit their high point in 1998...
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