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Charming people. /s

I can tell you from experience that Cowbee is by far the most abusive person to argue with online I have ever encountered. And I love arguing online so I’ve met a lot. I blocked them a long time ago and seeing them in a screenshot still makes me shudder. Terrible humans

Cowbee is frustrating, but he’s easy to counter once you realise his spiel.

Extremeists rely heavily on gish-gallop, bombarding you with nonsense. You need to focus on the weakest claim, point out the bias or flaw in the source, and play for neutrality and impartiality; they’ll crumble every single time.

For example, when presented with an obviously biased source like Prolewiki or Redsails, or whatever copy-paste nonsense they have, ask for something more neutral and professional in tone, such as Reuters, AP News, or a neutral article.

You are biased, your source is biased, I am intimidated by BBC, here is a far more reliable source from suckingstrongmansdick.slop that shows the T-14 Armata will solve world hunger.

Or something along those lines. I try from time to time. But am very quick to give up. So I do my part by making fun of them and donate to a good cause, which somehow makes them sooooooo angry. I wonder why.

(Source.)

I have witnessed some truly nauseating toxicity on webshites like Argue With Everyone (rot in piss), 4chan, Facebook, and so on, and to call @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml, of all people, ‘by far the most abusive person to argue with online I have ever encountered’ suggests that this user has not been on the Internet for a long time.

Oh, and I love the dullard who ridiculed us for disliking the BBC, never mind mediocre capitalist media like Reuters and the Associated Press. /c/MeanwhileOnGrad, you fucking suck.

  • La Dame d'AzurEnglish
    58·
    10 days ago

    oh boy they did the “your sources are biased but mine aren’t” bit unironically and then accused us of doing the same

    MY SIBLINGS IN MARX - ALL SOURCES ARE BIASED

    THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNBIASED SOURCE YOU NAIVE DULLARDS

    WHAT DO YOU THINK A BIAS IS AAAAAHHHHHHH

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      49·
      10 days ago

      Liberals truly believe their ideology is an objectively perfect system and all of their opponents are simply misinformed. They can’t fathom distinct political, economic, social interests and can only conceive of their opponents as either uneducated or lying.

      • MelsEnglish
        29·
        10 days ago

        They stem from the same Metaphysical origin that the religious do; literally the Enlightenment was full of religious people who attributed their ‘enlightened’ status to God or some sort. They are no different.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      35·
      10 days ago

      It just isnt an argument as well. Just cause a source is biased doesnt mean its incorrect. The truth may just coincide with those biases. Unless you can prove that they are also unfactual whether or not a source may be biased is irrelevant

    • davelEnglish
      15·
      10 days ago

      Media literacy education was already shite, but guess who’s driving it in the BlueAnon “post-truth era?” The military-industrial complex.

      New Media Literacy Standards Aim to Combat ‘Truth Decay’.

      This week, the RAND Corporation released a new set of media literacy standards designed to support schools in this task.

      The standards are part of RAND’s ongoing project on “truth decay”: a phenomenon that RAND researchers describe as “the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in our political and civic discourse.”