No, i have never thought that people on reddit speak the way they do because that's how most people generally speak online.

Link cause I'm not always a lib: https://hexbear.net/comment/3938186

Edit: followed up by this gem

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As I'm sure you can imagine, nothing i said was remotely like "no, u"

  • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I feel like there's something uniquely cringe about the way redditors seem to love more than anything to invoke the names of the fallacies. Like if someone's argument isn't sound it's totally reasonable to point that out, but the redditbrain seems to only care about naming the fallacy rather than actually doing that. Of course there's also just the fact they're just wrong a lot of the time. Like yeah for sure believing in cause and effect is definitely a slippery slope fallacy you got me

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      Exactly.

      99% of the time when I see someone invoke fallacies I'm like "...okay, so what are you going to do about it?" and almost all the time they don't do shit. It's just self-aggrandizing nonsense because saying "You just insulted me! How dare you!?" would get you laughed at online so instead they wrap that same sentiment up in fancy Latin terms so they can feel smug about it.

      The only time I ever really use logic terms in online discussions is when people slip into syllogistic reasoning because it's a shortcut and trying to expound upon what a syllogism is to a Redditor is hell because they always dig their heels in and nitpick your examples or they'll object to the example entirely (because Redditors are gonna Redditor) failing to grasp that you're actually just trying to communicate something like, no, being a vegetarian doesn't make you a Nazi simply because Hitler was (allegedly) a vegetarian.

      Trying to handhold Redditors through this sort of thing is my own fault though and I only have myself to blame for it.