You forget the most common one of all, lying.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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There's another type I see often here with these kinds of assholes. It's intentionally misconstruing or reaching the wrong conclusions about what the other person is saying. It's a form of strawmanning. They'll move the argument just a bit to the side, drop a false zinger that could fit the original narrative if you squint hard enough, and accuse you of saying or doing horrible shit when in reality you're saying something else.
And guess what, the people reading do not give a shit. They'll just dogpile if you try to fight it because Lemmy is wonderful like that and people here are so nice and critical.
Someone started talking about my hair in the profile picture on a discussion on another site because they didn't agree with what I said.
When people do shit like this I just disengage. Life is too short to waste with bad faith arguments.
It's bad food. I get into bad hungry defensive moods with bad food.
Appeal to fallacies is the self-important idiot's way out of replying to someone's argument.
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Asking the same question over and over for years...
Then just JAGing off (just asking questions) till the other person gets tired of explaining.
Like, if people want to insist on rehashing something from over a decade ago despite it being settled history at this point.
They don't want to actually discuss it, they have an opinion they agree with, and want to scream at someone for valuing facts more than their opinion
- Brillo-Padding
- Tire-Kicking
- Backyarding
- Barney-Rubbling
Barney-Rubbing
I misread and had so many questions about Barney the big purple dinosaur.
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After an event happens, many people convince themselves they saw it coming all along even if they had no idea.
Everyone is an expert on everything... Worse now because of LLMs
Phrasing something as protecting children... The ultimate form of manipulation
Innuendo studios has a nice series of videos on this on YouTube
Motte and bailey.
- "The Kingdom of Foo has no inequality!"
- "Actually it has quite a bit..."
- "Well it's still moving in the right direction, and that's what really matters."
Is there a word for dragging the argument to near-unrelated topics? E.g, post about lemmy.ml having comments on whether Ukraine has a nazi government.
There's some good examples and discussion here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ
I love Innuendo Studio's stuff. Such a bummer that he's most likely quitting.