Daily Kos⁠84%

Tom the Dancing Bug: Super-fun-pak comix, feat. Lester the Jester and more! - Daily Kos ⁠89%

By RubenBolling⁠0%

7/2/2026, 12:30:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Indoctrination, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 40.5% saturation with 75 hits. Analysis detected 396 faulty-reasoning hits from 185 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠89% (2,316 of 20,518 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.70% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 1.1%Daily Kos: 5.5%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 15.1%RubenBolling: 2.9%Daily Kos: 3.2%Availability Heuristic15.1%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 19.5%RubenBolling: 13.8%Daily Kos: 9.0%Framing Effect19.5%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 2.3%Daily Kos: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%RubenBolling: 3.6%Daily Kos: 1.9%Pessimism Bias9.7%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 8.9%Daily Kos: 15.1%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 2.2%Daily Kos: 1.1%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.5%Daily Kos: 2.5%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 34.6%RubenBolling: 14.6%Daily Kos: 2.2%In-Group Bias34.6%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.8%Daily Kos: 1.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 2.7%RubenBolling: 0.3%Daily Kos: 1.7%Halo Effect2.7%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.8%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.3%Daily Kos: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 5.5%Daily Kos: 5.9%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.2%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 6.5%RubenBolling: 3.2%Daily Kos: 2.3%False Dilemma6.5%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.2%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 1.1%Daily Kos: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 2.1%Daily Kos: 9.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Red Herring0.0%This article: 15.1%RubenBolling: 4.8%Daily Kos: 0.7%Bandwagon15.1%This article: 30.3%RubenBolling: 28.0%Daily Kos: 7.2%Appeal to Emotion30.3%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 2.0%Daily Kos: 1.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 3.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.5%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 2.4%Daily Kos: 0.7%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 1.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 2.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 3.6%Daily Kos: 1.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 4.9%Daily Kos: 22.8%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 20.5%RubenBolling: 23.2%Daily Kos: 2.1%Indoctrination20.5%This article: 19.5%RubenBolling: 15.9%Daily Kos: 10.4%Politically Left Leaning Bias19.5%This article: 0.0%RubenBolling: 0.0%Daily Kos: 0.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 40.5%RubenBolling: 58.9%Daily Kos: 2.3%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…40.5%

185 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker35%attributed speech120writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Kos • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 28 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Kos • 18 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Kos • 5 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Kos • 12 words • 100.0% coverageDaily Kos • 8 words • 0.0% coverageDaily Kos • 14 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Daily Kos

75%flagged-word coverage
65 attributed words100% of attributed speech83% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -62.5 ptsWriter: 62.5%Daily Kos: 0.0%0.0%Indoctrination+1.5 ptsWriter: 20.0%Daily Kos: 21.5%21.5%Politically Left Leaning B-1.5 ptsWriter: 20.0%Daily Kos: 18.5%18.5%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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