It’s why despite being definitionally anti-theist, I almost never talk about it. I didn’t even intend for this post to be about religion, but about moving past the urge to be an annoying debate lord. Once you realize that the winning strategy for debates is to have a troll mindset, you waste a lot less time on fruitless conversations.
A debate is really just a show where the people you’re trying to win over are the audience, not the other person. The way to win such a verbal fisticuffs is to make your opponent look like a fool while making yourself look good. Trolls specialize in getting under people’s skin, which allows them to shape the conversation in predictable ways. Giving your opponent the rope to hang themselves on is the winning strategy in online debates, not having a better argument than them.
Sure but you cant win a debate with someone who has the power of blind faith and confirmation bias, they will never question their beliefs and look for ways to justify them.
Yeah, never liked the online communities. Like, they’re good when people can ask there for advice, in case they’re stuck in some ultra-religious family or village. But most of the time, they just devolve into anti-theism, because “religion bad” is sure to get you upvotes…
No, the annoying thing is that they all talk about religion as if all religion is evangelical Christianity. They think that it makes them look impartial or something, but it just makes them look ignorant.
I love it when they consider themselves instantly smarter than anyone else solely because they’re an atheist. I love it when they call themselves free thinkers yet they all share the same 7 talking points as to why. And they lose their shit if you challenge any of them.
The annoying thing about reddit/lemmy atheists is all they talk about is church and god.
Not enough about someone banging their dad
It’s why despite being definitionally anti-theist, I almost never talk about it. I didn’t even intend for this post to be about religion, but about moving past the urge to be an annoying debate lord. Once you realize that the winning strategy for debates is to have a troll mindset, you waste a lot less time on fruitless conversations.
A troll doesn’t win the debate, trolls kill debates
On the other hand sometimes killing a “debate” is the best outcome.
How many times has some far right chud dropped of the radar after being absolutely humiliated?
“best outcome” yes, but not a “winning strategy”
A debate is really just a show where the people you’re trying to win over are the audience, not the other person. The way to win such a verbal fisticuffs is to make your opponent look like a fool while making yourself look good. Trolls specialize in getting under people’s skin, which allows them to shape the conversation in predictable ways. Giving your opponent the rope to hang themselves on is the winning strategy in online debates, not having a better argument than them.
Sure but you cant win a debate with someone who has the power of blind faith and confirmation bias, they will never question their beliefs and look for ways to justify them.
Yeah, never liked the online communities. Like, they’re good when people can ask there for advice, in case they’re stuck in some ultra-religious family or village. But most of the time, they just devolve into anti-theism, because “religion bad” is sure to get you upvotes…
No, the annoying thing is that they all talk about religion as if all religion is evangelical Christianity. They think that it makes them look impartial or something, but it just makes them look ignorant.
“People are getting killed by AIDS! We need to do something about this!”
“Actually most of them just have HIV, which on its own kills nobody.”
I love it when they consider themselves instantly smarter than anyone else solely because they’re an atheist. I love it when they call themselves free thinkers yet they all share the same 7 talking points as to why. And they lose their shit if you challenge any of them.
No, I don’t, but that’s probably because you don’t know I am