This shit just infuriates me. Just pure debate-bro idealism. You don't need to fucking go to the first principles and ground your axioms for every fucking issue. Sometimes, you can just agree that racism = bad. Like, no, fuck off, no one has to explain to you why racism is bad. Fuck off. Why do you think racism is bad?

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    When I think of any of these obnoxious debatebro assholes I think back to Carl of Akkad, and how the things that dealt the biggest blows to his online presence were all just things making fun of him for being a weird, awful dipshit. These people are typically shit with actual reasoning, but they benefit from online "presence" and reputation essentially advertising them as people worth listening to. if that gets sufficiently cracked, it does more than arguing with them.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      The biggest blow to sargon was how he tried running for parliament and had to interact with people offline

      All of these people collapse when the outside world is introduced because I guess it's not too hard to seem charismatic by comparison on Youtube