• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Making up fictional narratives to support a losing strategy, but so long as it fits your preconceived biases, you are good with it.

    Got it. You aren’t interested in winning. You are only interested in “having it your way”.

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        Do you see what they do audience? Do you see how they move the argument to something other than what we were talking about? Their goal is to get you to engage on their grounds, their alternative terms, so they can structure the narrative (even if the shit they are spewing is also false). Its not even that they might be right on these secondary grounds they are choosing; in-fact, they’ll often choose intentionally losing grounds to try and get you to go there (this example included) to dissuade you from your original point.

        Its a kind of narrative bait and switch; learn to look for it, and when you see it, it should raise a flag in you that the person you are having a discussion with is not engaging in good faith.