I wish more people simply... Learned how to shut up.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

That fact that there is a term for it is just as depressing.

I have heard the way to do it, is to take their crazy and take it WAY past their line until they back off themselves.

Moron: "There are only two genders!" Normal: "Right?!" Moron: "Ma-" Normal: "Trans and supergay".

No comment on the contents of my example. It's the only comic strip I remember at the moment.

Yes, it's me

Because I don't come to these spaces to discuss other people's feelings about things, I come to them to see whats in the zeitgiest

The fact that I'm a 2/10 isn't even the reason I'm so full of shit though.

I think you should at bare minimum voice some opposition. It helps you reinforce why you believe the things you do and it shows the readers that this idea is present. We are where we are today because the smart people refused to engage and failed to get their side of the argument into public discourse.

If I open a comment section and its full of tankie opinions I have to comment because I dont want the majority of people who lurk to think lemmy is only tankies.

That's when I just link them to a mental health services site and move on.

In my wise old age I don't waste time on fools. I no longer have the patience. I used to try to talk them out of whatever stupidity they're peddling and it was rarely successful. Not worth the effort.

7/10 ppl online.

But w lemme its still 7/10....but there's obly like 10 users so I can handle it.

Me, an intellectual:

I certainly get accused of being that person often enough, but I’m right >95% of the time because I don’t really argue unless I know what I’m talking about.

There are some people who have just been filled with so much wrong information over the course of their life that it's impossible to reach them. Anything you say to them will have a keyword that puts their guard up, any fact you share would be fake news. It's like their brains have been encrypted with the propaganda and hate. It's pavlovian. I try to recognize it in myself and maintain an open mind but it's hard.

It's hard to win an argument with a smart person. It's damn near impossible to win an argument with an idiot.

Yes, i have meet a person before. I have also commented on the internet.

MAGAs. Sometimes I don't even debate them, I ignore them and talk about them as if they weren't there, make fun of their arguments, laugh at them, mock them, just generally bully them, without even addressing them directly. They really hate that.

MAGAs and Anti-Vaxxers are about the only acceptable bullying targets, and they should be bullied as viciously and as relentlessly as possible. The damage they have done is incalculable, they deserve it.

The denominator is divisible by the numerator.