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MAGA Said The Odyssey Would Flop. Whoops! 92%
By Sam Stein90% Sonny Bunch78% Will Sommer82%
7/22/2026, 2:21:32 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, In-Group Bias, and Straw Man, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 61.4% saturation with 89 hits. Analysis detected 568 faulty-reasoning hits from 145 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.4% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,599 of 19,794 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 91.90% of the article peer group.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just pulled in $124.5 million over its opening weekend, the biggest domestic opening for a live-action film this year.
So why has MAGA Twitter spent the weekend insisting it's a woke disaster, a box office fraud, and a betrayal of Homer himself?
Sam Stein, Sonny Bunch, and Will Sommer give their takes on the right's bizarre backlash: the fake Achilles/Elliot Page casting controversy, the Emily Wilson translation discourse, the conspiracy theories about Rotten Tomatoes being "rigged," and the very online split between guys like Matt Walsh and Elon Musk (furious) and Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin (actually kind of into it).
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Confirmation Bias
15.9%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
15.9%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
20%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
61.4%Negativity Bias
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61.4%AuthorSam Stein
26.3%PublicationThe Bulwark
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
40.7%In-Group Bias
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40.7%AuthorSam Stein
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
40.7%Straw Man
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40.7%AuthorSam Stein
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
15.9%False Dilemma
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15.9%AuthorSam Stein
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
15.9%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
40.7%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
45.5%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
40.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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145 words analyzed.
Analysis
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