A: no one should believe any statement from any politician ever
B: don't demand that politicians meet standards
Your argument (not mine): A -> B
Then you argue that B is dysfunctional so A leads to dysfunction.
Can you not imagine some C such as
C: demand that politicians live up to some standard
Wherein A->C makes everything better?
The fact that you concocted B to discredit A is a logical fallacy called "strawman".
Either you already understood this, but hoped for an audience that did not, or you didn't even realize what you had done. I point it out here for your possible benefit and for the possible benefit of anyone else who doesn't understand this flawed reasoning. I apologize to everyone who recognized it immediately and has then suffered through this response.
You seemed to have missed the context that you're arguing the "against" position in a thread about social media fact-checking, i.e. a "demand that politicians live up to some standard [of truth]"
Language has implied meaning, it's one of the maxims of conversation in the field of linguistics, of the Cooperative principle [1].
If you're going to immediately jump to technical dissection of a conversation, you should probably consider the relevant field first.
Your "strawman" was very clearly directly implied by what you said. And the fact that you just attacked the argument instead of just responding like a normal person does not help your case.
B: don't demand that politicians meet standards
Your argument (not mine): A -> B
Then you argue that B is dysfunctional so A leads to dysfunction.
Can you not imagine some C such as
C: demand that politicians live up to some standard
Wherein A->C makes everything better?
The fact that you concocted B to discredit A is a logical fallacy called "strawman".
Either you already understood this, but hoped for an audience that did not, or you didn't even realize what you had done. I point it out here for your possible benefit and for the possible benefit of anyone else who doesn't understand this flawed reasoning. I apologize to everyone who recognized it immediately and has then suffered through this response.