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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.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
    38·
    3 hours ago

    Thanks so much everyone for your kind words! I didn’t expect to wake up to such a shower of support and warmth!

    🤗

    Also, for anyone wondering, the latest hate post at this time has 24 comments and a split of 63 upvotes, 5 downvotes, while this post has 71 upvotes, 0 downvotes, and 61 comments. Just helps put in perspective that the cryptofash on MwOG are far smaller in number than we are, especially considering MwOG is more broadly federated and yet has lower engagement. It doesn’t sound like much, but it does help explain why they are getting more and more desperate over there.

    • davelEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Yeah it’s a small group of very noisy crypto-fascists and a some lookie-loos.

        • davelEnglish
          2·
          22 minutes ago

          I honestly don’t know. I’ve never met people like them in real life or even online. I don’t understand what’s going on in their heads. I’m not sure how much of it is conscious, intentional anticom wrecker behavior and how much is just unconscious/unexamined/etc. They may each be there for different motivationsl/psychological reasons from the others. Very odd birds.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      6 hours ago

      help explain why they are getting more and more desperate over there.

      that’s probably why piefed became a thing; fewer people will get the chance to learn when they’re steered away from lemmy at the next reddit/facebook protest.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
        8·
        6 hours ago

        Yep, good point! Also, the creator of PieFed instance-banned me from PieFed.social for debunking PJ a bit too hard, haha. It splits the FOSS reddit-style base into communist-friendly and anti-communist.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          5 hours ago

          PJ

          that’s the 4th time someone referenced this user in a response in the last month or so and i struggle to understand why since my only interaction with them was easily dismissable because he threw a tantrum calling me a fascist; they seem like an ordinary western brain wormed compatible leftist to me based on what i could find.