Compact⁠77%

‘Citizen Vigilante’ and the Rise of Basedsploitation ⁠89%

By Isaac Simpson⁠0%

6/29/2026, 11:53:37 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 27 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 81.6% saturation with 120 hits. Analysis detected 1,090 faulty-reasoning hits from 147 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,357 of 21,169 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.90% of the article peer group.

At the beginning of *Citizen Vigilante*, a new film that has reached #1 on Amazon Prime, something shocking happens. 
A young white woman walking down the street of a European city is suddenly stabbed in the neck by an African migrant. 
Six of the nine films listed above share the same producer, Dallas Sonnier, more or less the only executive in today’s world known for bringing right-wing stories to the big screen. 
The first three have the same director, S. 
Craig Zahler, an auteur with a background in heavy metal. 
Many also feature disgraced stars whose bad behavior or conservative beliefs got them ostracized from Hollywood: Mel Gibson in *Dragged*, Armie Hammer in *Citizen*, Jonathan Majors in *Infidels, * Jim Caviezel in *Sound of Freedom*. 
This makes sense, because all these films raise a middle finger to the liberal establishment. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 55.1%Isaac Simpson: 18.2%Compact: 8.0%Confirmation Bias55.1%This article: 21.1%Isaac Simpson: 2.4%Compact: 0.5%Anchoring Bias21.1%This article: 12.9%Isaac Simpson: 8.7%Compact: 3.1%Availability Heuristic12.9%This article: 21.1%Isaac Simpson: 6.6%Compact: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic21.1%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.7%Compact: 1.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 21.1%Isaac Simpson: 8.4%Compact: 3.0%Overconfidence Bias21.1%This article: 15.0%Isaac Simpson: 13.0%Compact: 5.2%Framing Effect15.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.5%Compact: 2.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 53.7%Isaac Simpson: 21.0%Compact: 7.2%Negativity Bias53.7%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 23.8%Isaac Simpson: 8.3%Compact: 1.5%Fundamental Attribution Error23.8%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 15.0%Isaac Simpson: 7.6%Compact: 2.6%In-Group Bias15.0%This article: 38.8%Isaac Simpson: 9.6%Compact: 2.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias38.8%This article: 6.8%Isaac Simpson: 3.1%Compact: 1.9%Halo Effect6.8%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 3.3%Compact: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 12.9%Isaac Simpson: 2.3%Compact: 1.3%Recency Bias12.9%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 1.2%Compact: 0.8%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 6.6%Compact: 1.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 2.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 27.9%Isaac Simpson: 5.4%Compact: 3.6%Appeal to Authority27.9%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.7%Compact: 2.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 1.7%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 10.2%Isaac Simpson: 4.3%Compact: 0.5%Circular Reasoning10.2%This article: 36.1%Isaac Simpson: 33.9%Compact: 13.1%Hasty Generalization36.1%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 61.9%Isaac Simpson: 11.4%Compact: 4.8%Appeal to Emotion61.9%This article: 10.2%Isaac Simpson: 4.4%Compact: 2.1%Begging the Question10.2%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 6.6%Compact: 4.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.3%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 44.9%Isaac Simpson: 3.2%Compact: 0.6%Burden of Proof44.9%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.9%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 1.7%Compact: 1.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 12.9%Isaac Simpson: 1.8%Compact: 2.1%Anecdotal12.9%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 23.8%Isaac Simpson: 3.1%Compact: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)23.8%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Isaac Simpson: 0.0%Compact: 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 23.8%Isaac Simpson: 4.0%Compact: 1.9%Unattributed Quote23.8%This article: 12.9%Isaac Simpson: 3.1%Compact: 1.5%Quote-first Misdirection12.9%This article: 81.6%Isaac Simpson: 40.8%Compact: 13.0%Biased Writer Voice81.6%This article: 25.2%Isaac Simpson: 6.9%Compact: 2.5%Indoctrination25.2%This article: 34.0%Isaac Simpson: 13.9%Compact: 1.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias34.0%This article: 25.9%Isaac Simpson: 25.5%Compact: 5.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias25.9%This article: 12.9%Isaac Simpson: 0.9%Compact: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.9%

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