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I might be lower IQ than some people, so logical fallacies, psychological slight of hands and sophistry fuck with me

Or I might be feeling really dumb

I think that’s what he was trying to do

Read up on some logical fallacies. I tend to think I'm pretty smart but even I get thrown off by them. That is why they are used, if you aren't looking for it you can slip and fall.

If something doesn't connect or make sense its possible they are using a fallacy, maybe even without knowing it.

AHHHHHHHHH RIP PUERTO RICO GOVERNOR

Yeah that’s true, I’ve seen people make fallacies on accident

It’s just annoying when it sounds good at first but then you think about it

Then it’s complete nonsense

Sometimes you have an idea or remember reading something and can't quite put it in words and end up slipping into a fallacy to get the point across easier.

Can't really blame too many people for doing it. Its just good to know when it happens to avoid getting persuaded wrongfully. This is the key to being a good consumer of information.

Well the only reason I out right didn’t like this guy is because he said that it was a battle

A way of humiliating me to prove me wrong

So everyone would just think I was retarded and move on

But when it comes to these things I always want to be heard out respectfully

So yeah I was pretty pissed about the whole thing

If he used a fallacy on purpose or not idk

But he did say that was his goal

The fact that you can think about it like that is good. To conceptualize it. Yeah it sucks that it has to be a "battle". That is totally feeding his ego right there, has nothing to do with learning or debating.

Well it’s whatever now, plus a lot of it was me being trash at debate

And I didn’t fully read into all of the topics we went over

Hey man, debate is totally about practice and learning/knowing the topics.

But he would just throw insults at me and I personally am not good with debating like that

Oh yeah, naw if he insults you that is a red flag.

That is actually the most common logical fallacy. Its called "Ad Hominem", an attack of the person. He attacked you and didn't attack your argument.

This was a while ago so I can’t remember the details

Well yeah he called me Dave Rubin

Which is just saying I don’t stand for anything

I was a wishy washy centrist etc

Then a reactionary

Actually I went ahead and looked up what bro reactionaries believe because of this

Neo reactionaries*

And it’s basically the opposite side of intersectional feminism. They like capitalism, nationalism and the “patriarchy” (church)

But obviously their terms are different and don’t match completely

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Nothing wrong with a centrist. Centrist can mean you are open to anything. You don't need to make a decision until you know what you are deciding on.

Reactionary I think is extreme left. The furthest left. Radical left winger.

You must have said something really crazy to go from centrist to radical left in a few sentences haha.

I don’t know if I’m on board with that