• Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is basically the alt-right approach to debate. They don’t care about being right, they just want to own the libs.

    • Iusedtobeanadventurer@lemmy.world
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      This.

      I had someone the other day tell me the Tiananmen “tank man” incident never happened. We were discussing cognitive biases and she used this as an example of confirmation bias. But naturally she was arguing that anyone who didn’t share her world view suffered from confirmation bias.

      When I said “the incident did happen and there’s photographic evidence” she told me "Google it there’s no photo "

      Well, we googled it and there is, in fact, a photo. There’s more than one, actually.

      I decided that presenting facts no longer was the point of the conversation when she shifted to the argument “that photo is known to be staged.”

      🙄

      • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        It sounds like they got a bit confused. Tank man is real, but I’m reasonably sure he was not actually crushed by the tank which was the lie we were all told by our textbooks growing up, to bolster the “China bad” position held by the Western world.

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          I’ve never seen it claimed he was cruched by the tanks?

          I’ve seen it claimed the bodies of the student protestors were run over by the tanks repeatedly until they were mush and there is photos to support this.

          But the story of tank man was that he stood in front of the tanks and they tried to go around him, but he moved in front of them again.

          Also fuck off tankie

          • InputZero@lemmy.ml
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            I can’t think of it off the top of my head but I’m certain something like The Simpsons or Family Guy used it as a joke where they did get run over. I don’t think it’s claimed anywhere but it did become part of the story for some people. I can easily see how someone who doesn’t quite understand the situation, but is also sceptical to truth would think that.

            Take someone who assumes he was run over, tell them ‘well actually he wasn’t, the perspective of the picture makes it look like he’s about to be.’ and some of those people will jump to the conclusion it was fake. Especially in the past 40 (?) Years where a lot of people get their history from TV.

        • Iusedtobeanadventurer@lemmy.world
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          I think you’re right and she was confused but that sort of illustrates the point. If someone is arguing a fallacy that is easily proven a fallacy then it indicates to me that they are generally going to be an unreliable source of information.

  • Bak@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I honestly love when people screenshot memes and accidentally draw random ass lines on them

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    Sheesh, that reminds me of a D&D group I had. One guy started arguing about crap. For example: Group got injured, got brought to safety in town, I described how each group member woke up and asked each one what they want to do in the morning. The problem player complained he should have woken up before the other guy, because he has higher initiative. I didn’t go along with it and said nah, your character got knocked out in the last fight, it only makes sense you get up later.

    He kept arguing and arguing and arguing and derailing the entire session. And then brought up “Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it”. So pretty much admitting he’s just arguing for the sake of it at that point. Ended the session there, half the group wanted to kick him out, the other half (as they were friends) wanted to give him a second chance. I did the latter and regretted it in the next session, that’s where the campaign ended.

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      Honestly in a way that kind of thing kind of ruins any chance of trusting the guy, mostly bc you can’t trust him not to completely nuke the campaign bc he’s being an utter dick (which by the sound of it he totally did). The first time someone starts shit for fun, how do you know they won’t do it again every other time you hang out with them? Now you just have to assume they’re a bitter and immature enough person to always think that it’s fun to shit on everyone else’s day.

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        Exactly. And this was for a super super unimportant detail in a campaign. Like which character wakes up first? Holy shit, who cares? Imagine coming to a critical decision, which character dies? Or something goes wrong (like an important roll). That kind of player would derail everything at that point if they already argue for over an hour over bullshit.

        I just wanted the guy out, but it was on Roll20 (4 players total, one friend of mine, 3 other online players which were friends), even his friends told him it’s annoying, stop it. But they still wanted to give him another chance (and me kicking him straight out would have killed the campaign either way then). Such a waste of time.

        On top of that: The moment a player keeps second guessing the DM, like starting to argue about decisions outside the roleplay, you’re already doomed. Because one dumb thing gets brought up and that leads into another player chiming up “Npc A doing this also didn’t make that much sense…” and then the entire campaign gets dissected.

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    Something most of us have done one way or another. We’ve all been dickheads sometimes.

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    Yeah, that really doesn’t make you look good in any sort of way with anybody except yourself maybe.

    It really isn’t hard to admit your mistake and move on.

    Only losers can’t do that.

    • Sordid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That’s what this meme about ‘sigmaposting’ is poking fun at. The sigma wolf is supposed to be the lone wolf who doesn’t need nor care about anybody else, and for some reason some people look up to that as an ideal to pursue. But wolves are social animals, so in reality the lone wolf is a failing loser.