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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]
    14·
    8 days ago

    Yep! It’s also dialectical. When the basis is solid, it creates its own opposition in the sense that those ideologies at risk relentlessly try to tear it to shreds. This, however, strengthens the basis by forcing it to acknowledge and counter these new accusations. Sometimes Marxists like Lenin carry Marxism forward, but do so by affirming its basis and extending it by applying it to new conditions. Marxism is a creative, living science, which makes it infinitely adaptable and extraordinarily resiliant to critique.