AD HOMINEM: Personal attack.;

AD NAUSEAM: Regurgitate until accepted.;

AGENDA SETTING: "Suck all the oxygen" out of news and debate.;

APPEAL TO AUTHORITY: [Leader name] likes it, you do too.;

APPEAL TO FEAR: Be afraid, be very afraid.;

APPEAL TO PRIDE: You are better than they are.;

BANDWAGON: Everybody's doing it. Hop on-board!.;

BIG LIE: "If you tell a big lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.";

BLACK AND WHITE: "You are with us or against us.;"

BLIND I: Ignoring ally actions opponents are attacked for.;

BROKEN RECORD: Eternal repetition, same thing, same way.;

CHERRY PICKING: Hype tiny supporting evidence, conceal massive opposing evidence;

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING: Politician plays popular song, gains support (see Pavlov's dog).;

CRISIS MANIPULATION: Spectacular event buries damaging facts.;

CULT OF PERSONALITY: Leader becomes religious figure.;

DECEPTION: Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie (foundation of most propaganda).;

DICTAT: Leader said it, so it is true (even if obviously false).;

DISINFORMATION: Incorrect information.;

DISTRACTION: Quick, change the subject!;

DIVIDE AND CONQUER: Pit opponents against themselves.;

DOUBLE ENTENDRE: Miners refuse to work after death.;

ECHO CHAMBER: Interweaved stovepiped media amplifies its own disinformation.;

EUPHEMISM: Friendly terms blunt ugly facts. "They tortured opponents quietly.";

EUPHORIA: Things are excellent! (Even when they're terrible.);

EXAGGERATION: "There has never been anything greater than this, ever.";

FALLACY OF COMPOSITION: One person does it, so all people do it.;

FALSE COMPARISON: Piloting is like driving 1000 cars.;

FEAR, UNCERTAINTY, AND DOUBT: Support leader or else.;

FLAG WAVING: Patriotic symbols valued over national foundations.;

FOOT IN THE DOOR: Give tiny gift, expect eternal loyalty.;

GASLIGHTING: Deception encouraging targets to doubt their own perceptions.;

GISH GALLOP: Speedily discharging convoluted concepts.:

GLITTERING GENERALITIES: Enthralling statements with no actual meaning (aka B.S.).;

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION: Shop keeper who talked to opponent condemned as opponent.;

HALF TRUTH: The politician ran down their opponent.;

HYPERBOLE: The comedian killed the audience.;

CREATIVE VAGUENESS: Broad statements lets audiences hear what they want.;

LABELING: Dividing people against themselves (left/right, liberal/conservative).;

LOADED LANGUAGE: "The site" of conventional attack labeled "ground zero.";

LOVE BOMBING: Destroy family, provide new family.;

MANIPULATING THE NEWS: Complaining about unfavorable reports induces favorable reports.;

MISINFORMATION: Disinformation spread unintentionally (see pseudo-environment).;

MILIEU CONTROL: Social environment creates control (see love bombing, pseudo-environment).;

MINIMIZATION: "Enemy agents are harmless.";

MUDDY THE WATER: Confusing distractions.;

NAME CALLING: Opponent is a [dirty name].;

NON-SEQUITUR: "Some lies are so false they are true.";

OBFUSCATION: Devising the uncomplicated as knotty.;

OPERANT CONDITIONING: Carrot and stick.;

OPINION AS FACT: "The moon is cheese so the landings were faked.";

OVERSIMPLIFICATION: There is no alternative to war.;

PLAIN FOLKS: Join us common people.;

PROJECTION: Accusing opponent of crime(s) you are committing.;

PSEUDO-ENVIRONMENT: Propaganda manufactured interpersonal situation of meshing falsehoods.;

QUOTES OUT OF CONTEXT: "My opponent says I lied" becomes "I lied.";

RATIONALIZATION: "We killed the dissidents to save their families.";

RED HERRING: Distraction with "shiny/smelly object.";

SCAPEGOATING: Fixing blame, not problems.;

SLOGANS: "Bumper sticker" arguments, "Stop plate tectonics.";

SMEAR: Falsely attacking opponents' character.;

SPECULATION: Predicting the future.;

STEREOTYPING: They are [stereotyped], therefore they all [stereotype].;

STOVEPIPING: Restricting information sources to avoid learning facts (see pseudo-environment).;

STRAW MAN: Create false premise, then attack it.;

TESTIMONIAL: Celebrity support.;

THIRD PARTY: Partisan plays independent.;

THOUGHT TERMINATING CLICHE: "Don't be silly.";

TONE ATTACK: Ignore facts, attack delivery.;

VICE WORDS: Unkind incorrect words, "demonic" opponents.;

VIRTUE WORDS: Kind incorrect words, "angelic" allies.;

WHATABOUTISM: Distract with charge of hypocrisy.

What, Dave, no X,Y,or Z terms?

:)

meaning what ?

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment on the completeness of the list.

You had terms for all letters A-W. But no X, Y, or Z.
Surely there must be fallacies/propaganda techniques starting with those letters??!!

could be.

Xenu says (see appeal to authority above). The Scientologist’s Boner.

Y ~ because we like you ~


Z ~ zee you reel soon ~