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Posted On: November 2nd 2026, 01:17 pm
How to Argue With a Stupid Person
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beltfedblue 8 hours ago

beltfedblue

The answer? DONT. If you’re arguing with a stupid person, what does that make you? πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ Arguing with an idiot is like trying to save someone who’s drowning. They’ll pull you under with them. They’ll beat you with experience. It’s like playing chess with a pigeon, no matter how right you are, and how wrong they are, they will just strut around on the chess board, shitting all over like they won anyway. And other stupid people will see them strut and think they won as well.

outlierandhappy 12 hours ago

outlierandhappy

I like how you frame those as stupid who’re thinking that wfh makes people lazy! πŸ™Œ

_radioactivepanda_ 18 hours ago

_radioactivepanda_

And once you have excavated the whole rotten carcass of a belief you’ll find it is completely devoid of truth or fact and entirely built on circular logic and a simple indomitable belief without any reason behind itβ€¦πŸ˜‚ Arguing with stupid people is like playing chess with a pigeon. You can checkmate it all you want, it refuses or is incapable to learn the rules, throws around the pieces, and will fly off to claim it won resoundingly anyways.

lace.m.up a day ago

lace.m.up

How to pretend like you're speaking to someone in a podcast instead of talking directly to the camera

jonttueriksson86 2 days ago

jonttueriksson86

But what if they laugh or order me to educate myself ? πŸ€”

robr2800 2 days ago

robr2800

Don’t even try.

mamahaneen_bagis 2 days ago

mamahaneen_bagis

✍️ π™ˆπ˜Όπ™†π™€ π™π™ƒπ™€π™ˆ π˜Ύπ™‡π˜Όπ™π™„π™π™” (𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙄𝙍 π™Šπ™’π™‰ π™Žπ™π˜Όπ™π™€π™ˆπ™€π™‰π™)... π™’π™šπ™‘π™‘ π™£π™€π™©π™šπ™™..

bmalbert 2 days ago

bmalbert

This is what Mehdi Hasan does to people

anne_marie_stevens 2 days ago

anne_marie_stevens

πŸ‘β€οΈπŸ”₯

iricky_001 2 days ago

iricky_001

Once a wise cat said "Do not argue with stupid people".

cheeseaddiction3 3 days ago

cheeseaddiction3

But what if I asked "what made you think of that?" And then he says "no reason, thats what I think?"

thefirstquestions 3 days ago

thefirstquestions

The clarifying question works even better when you point it at yourself first. Plenty of what I defended hardest turned out to be an answer someone handed me, never checked. Asking where a belief came from before acting on it is what I call first questions, and it calms an argument faster than any proof. Have you tried your method on your own opinions?

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