chapotraphouse

You missed the best line:

However, please keep this in mind - that being a Nazi sympathizer does not automatically invalidate one's opinions on other topics.

"Um, ackshually, that's an ad hominem "

Love to catalogue and publish a list of all the times I got owned

What's with people calling insults "ad hominem attacks"?

Lmao imagine admitting the being this owned

Maybe try not being a disingenuous condescending western imperialist nazi apologist?

Really says it all by the focus on “winning”. Doesn’t even care what is right or using different viewpoints to get to the truth of a matter. That’s explicitly engaging in bad faith.

we've really had some rippers lately

I actually felt kind of bad for that person. They seem like an obsessive with an unhealthy internet habit. Like I thought we were terminally online? I've never once collected a screenshot album of grievances.

Folks, do yourself a favor and go outside occasionally.

These are all good insults. Not a Reddit portmanteau anywhere.

yelling out names of logical fallacies while waving my magic wand around

Stop licking the boot if you don't want to be called a bootlicker!

I mean where is the lie ? Call a spade a spade ??

Maybe stop being all of those things then?

I wonder which argument did this poster lose to cause this incredible post

Imagine if they spent half as much effort actually learning history as they did whining about hexbears telling them to learn history

"Your Honor, the defendant told me, to my face, that I was a 'shithead'. Then the teenagers laughed at me, pulled my pants down and tickled me until I pissed in my own face, had diarrhea and shuddered with pleasure."

We do love calling people names. We love calling people pronouns. Hell we just love calling people, full stop.

You can tell which one they most identity with

Please refer to the time Abe Lincoln bullied a political opponent to tears with ad hominem attacks during an official debate.

But make the tagline the same size as the washington post one

i'm absolutely begging for the linkeroni

(i know this isn't the dunk tank, but this is amazing)

Hexbear told me my mother smells of elderberries and to fart in my general direction.

😔

The internetbro logical fallacy revolution and its consequences has been a disaster for human discourse.

This is not a formal debate so drop the pretense already.

Also note that labelling a Nazi sympathiser as "a defender of fascism" is not an ad hominem, that's a description. Just because you personally object to the label doesn't mean that therefore it's a logical fallacy.

Also note that there's no generally logical proposition in the statement of opinions. "I don't like mint icecream" could very well be considered an ad hominem against mint icecream by these clowns because anything they disagree with which is a statement of opinion counts as a logical fallacy in their eyes.

But if there's a layperson's discussion going on then the notion that the "debate" is focused on a particular topic and all responses must find themselves within the limits of that topic is, frankly, nonsense.

Yes, introducing your dislike for mint icecream to a discussion about politics is irrelevant but there's absolutely no need to use fancy logic terms like "red herring fallacy" when you can just say "that's not relevant" instead.

Likewise, throwing out a term like "ad hominem" is just a description and it's as useful as saying "that's an insult". Except it's way more pretentious and it provides the person who deploys that term with an inflated sense of purpose and logical correctness that saying "You insulted me" or "I disagree with your opinion" does not.

Imagine if these people decided to lose the pretense and got called a nerd then just responded with "that's an insult". Like, yeah, bro - congrats on figuring that out all by yourself, I guess?

The sooner that people lose "ad hominem" from their vocabulary, the better imo.
(Although on the other hand it's a wonderful red flag for indicating that you're dealing with a pompous, self-aggrandising dickbag who wants to exert complete control over the discussion, so maybe that term actually does have a good use for general discussions after all...)