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No because the goomba is the average of two real opinions, and the strawman is a distortion/reduction of any opinion such that its easy to argue against.


More like a superposition of two opinions.


Schrodinger's Goomba?


Ah, ok, so two real opinions made into a distortion. Right, I see how very dissimilar to an origin story of a strawman that is…


If I only had a brain...




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