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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't try to talk sense and logic with a trump supporter...
You are not a dumbfuck whisperer....
mucifer
(23,580 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,742 posts)...cut through the BS arguments and tangents and fox hunts; use the opponents' own moral compass to express disgust in their ethical hypocrisy and their trashing their own theology.
One won't win, but one will be right. The righteous are wrong.
Glamrock
(11,803 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Shermann
(7,458 posts)But if they were capable of the abstract thinking skills required to apply knowledge gained from one situation to a similar one while minding any differences, they wouldn't be conservatives in the first place.
They do understand memes though, many are full-blown "memeists". So I just him them with those now.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,828 posts)In a slow manner with a calm voice....."Somewhere out there, there is a tree working tirelessly to produce enough oxygen so that you can breathe. I believe you owe it an apology."
I used that line on FB in a discussion and the person blew up after she realized I had insulted her. To which I replied, "Like you, I was expressing
an opinion based on alternative facts." Then others started piling on her when she blew up spouting garbage a la Kellyanne Conway.