What's the longest internet argument you have had?
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You're a menace lol
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Let's argue right now and in 10 years we'll come back here to settle it
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No, that's a bad idea. What if we forget?
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I disagree, people tend to remember the arguments they had as a kid even when they are old and your mind keeps coming up with comebacks.
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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.
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Are you calling me forgetful?! See you in 10 years for an apology.
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about how many days are in a week
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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.
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This little exchange felt so wholesome in a deliberately counterintuitive way.
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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".
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Why would you?
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I think the point of an internet argument is to convince the third parties who read it.
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The ST had the Spectre GCR so it could clearly do everything a Mac could and more, plus it was cheaper.
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Yep, that's why I stick with some arguments, but realizing when there's nothing to be gained is important as well.
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I was bored on my lunchbrakes at work so I would just troll people in the youtube comments. I also fall for obvious bait because I cant help myself. Its the fedora tipping redditor inside me.
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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.
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I had a multi-week long argument with someone on Reddit who was convinced that racism is irrelevant and/or doesn't exist because it's a distraction from class warfare or something.
I argued that yes, the rich are screwing us over, but racism still exists and is bad and you shouldn't be racist.
They made responses that were at least 3x as long as mine. They didn't really ever say anything new, except to say that my points were wrong because class warfare. After they went on a rant in response to my comment to the effect of "it's still not nice to pretend racism doesn't exist", I lost hope with this person.
I started replying to them by mentioning something they said, then followed it up by copy-pasting some of my previous comments to them. I didn't even read their essays. I started pawning off my replies to ChatGPT, and they'd reply every time. Unless they were also using an LLM and telling it to include typos and stuff, it looked like they were still vehemently arguing with me/ChatGPT.
After a few weeks of almost daily replies, I gave a two-sentence reply where I admitted that I wasn't even reading their replies because I thought their opinion was nonsense and the "conversation" had been going nowhere.
I didn't get a reply to that comment.
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Jarjar finally caught up to him...
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Funny because racism is a classic way to neuter class war
