• Sidhean@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Oh goodness, I should hope not! I love arguing on the internet, and I would hate to think that I’m actually changing peoples minds.

  • splonglo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The trick is to argue with the voices in your own head and simply project them on to other people’s comments.

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      9 months ago

      i cannot express how much i hate that, why must people keep imagining points and opinions i never said or made

  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    90% of statistics on the internet are made up on the spot. Just because people stop replying to you doesn’t mean you’ve “changed their views”, but that’s the only thing you will encounter if you never stop before they do. A big hint that they won’t be convinced is how they will just try to nitpick the most irrelevant points in your replies, ignoring the crux of the argument.

    Acting like that is a good way to get stuck wasting your time, just give them a chance to know the facts and correct themselves with actual evidence and citations, and then move on. You help more people “change their views” that way, nobody is going to your shitpost deeply nested reply threads anyway. Nobody worth considering, anyway.

  • EatATaco@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I know this is just a joke, but I’m reading a book on quitting right now and one of the points she is driving home is that if you quit at the right time, it tends to feel too early to quit.

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        9 months ago

        That is one of my favorite theories. Meadow walks in and frisbee throws a full stack of gabagool to Tony. It’s covers the camera, and that was the last of the film for the day. They liked it so much they kept it.

  • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The last few years had made me lose all respect for debates as a field of study. Remembering shit like logos and pathos and all that nonsense for nothing.