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Field Guide to Mind Control

False Dilemma

Present two options as the only options, when more exist.

How it controls you

If you accept the frame, you have already lost half the argument. Every alternative that goes unmentioned is a choice you never got to make. The trick is not in the options offered. It is in the ones erased.

Spotted in the wild

"you are either with us or against us"
"the only choice is X or chaos"
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More techniques:
Loaded Language · Name Calling · Appeal to Fear · Manufactured Urgency · Flag Waving · Manufactured Consensus · Casting Doubt · Thought-Terminating Cliché · Whataboutism · Appeal to Authority · Causal Oversimplification · Repetition

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