[kiryandil]

Yes.....standing on the rigor of dogged definitions makes perfect sense here - not.....people know what he was talking about...

Scott Adams calls it "word thinking".

You "win" the argument by interpreting a word or phrase in favor of your point of view.

In this case, "Covid Vent" is the strawman that gets beaten like a pinata by the word-thinker.

[Gaffer]

I guess I can understand that. It’s the equivalent of the left’s “the wanna inject bleach to cure Covid” whenever hydrochloroquine is mentioned.

[dynoman]

He’s a real wildcat LOL!