Let's argue right now and in 10 years we'll come back here to settle it
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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Don't know, honestly, but what I do know is that if an argument on the internet lasts more than a couple replies neither party is "winning" in the end, if winning means convincing the other party.
I think the point of these hopeless internet arguments mainly becomes to convince the third parties who read them.
Yep, that's why I stick with some arguments, but realizing when there's nothing to be gained is important as well.
Had a guy that used to find me on reddit and respond to everything I said. It was innocent and funny because it was literally just him talking shit out the prequel star wars to me. Not really an argument I guess. He did it for like 3 years. Stopped doing it about 8 years ago. Wonder what happened to that guy.
Jarjar finally caught up to him...
I'm still having an argument with a particular Peter Sinclair (aka synclap) about the relative merits of the Atari ST vs his App Mac Classic that began circa 1990.
The ST had the Spectre GCR so it could clearly do everything a Mac could and more, plus it was cheaper.
People should stop making these sort of posts
about how many days are in a week
I've never seen anyone win an argument. What would that even look like? What's the goal?
That the EU was morally better than the US. The posts got longer and longer. I gave up after realizing my latest post would be over 4000 words long.
in geopolitics morality isn't really a thing
A week, the fact that I love the Evangelion manga but don't like the anime(though I do enjoy the movies. I don't know what it is), and I genuinely have no fucking clue why I kept engaging.
I think we just kinda gave up, in the end. There wasn't ever really a point, it wasn't even a "thing is bad" argument, it was "I just don't really enjoy experiencing thing x way" "here's why you're wrong for that".