“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw
this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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Never heard that quote before, its a good one. Feels quite applicable after the last few years we've had
You aren’t going to change his mind. It will only bring more people with a loose mental association to reality to join him on the easily disproven conspiracy theory nonsense.
" The lesson I took from that experience was simple: Trying to defeat charismatic men with facts and logic is a fool’s errand."
And from what we've seen over the last few years, it unfortunately doesn't even take that much charisma to take charge of a meaningful amount of people