Exactly, the recent MrBeast post in response to the video criticising them is a great way of breaking down how it goes.
a tortured rephrasing a question you already answered - they're trying to get you to phrase your argument in a way that'll let them nit-pick it to death.
I will call out the internet in general for this even though leftists are definitely worse for it. People seem to be such social retards that they don't understand if you start making shit up about somebody or trying to rephrase what they've posted people are going to be annoyed or even pissed off about it if it's particularly egregious.
Unfortunately the best move in this game is to simply not play it, they will claim victory because they're social retards especially if you block them, but anyone with a brain who looks at the history will see "Oh yeah that person was being a massive douchebag". The reason you don't engage with people like this is because it's a tactic that's very similar to what journalists/redditors use and the idea is to avoid the topic itself and get you to do a several page long argument about what you did or didn't post even though the history is right fucking there.
It's all very annoying, don't waste your time with it, these are bad faith debaters fishing around for something to virtue signal on.
Exactly, the recent MrBeast post in response to the video criticising them is a great way of breaking down how it goes.
I will call out the internet in general for this even though leftists are definitely worse for it. People seem to be such social retards that they don't understand if you start making shit up about somebody or trying to rephrase what they've posted people are going to be annoyed or even pissed off about it if it's particularly egregious.
Unfortunately the best move in this game is to simply not play it, they will claim victory because they're social retards especially if you block them, but anyone with a brain who looks at the history will see "Oh yeah that person was being a massive douchebag". The reason you don't engage with people like this is because it's a tactic that's very similar to what journalists/redditors use and the idea is to avoid the topic itself and get you to do a several page long argument about what you did or didn't post even though the history is right fucking there.
It's all very annoying, don't waste your time with it, these are bad faith debaters fishing around for something to virtue signal on.