• alottafagina@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Why is it that every single time you see someone trying to claim the role of ‘adult in the room’, they appear to be speaking from a perspective of being perfectly oblivious (albeit sometimes for the purpose of obfuscation)?

    Did you miss the part where OP’s entire argument was ‘fuckstick’?

    Yes, fuckstick. That’s the whole point to a lot of people. I swear, the level of smugness of AI true believers is totally inappropriate.

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        34 minutes ago

        Sure, but if ‘fuckstick’ is your sole ‘argument’, you can’t exactly call foul when someone declines to engage with you for being childish.

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          18 minutes ago

          Well, they were being truthful and children tend to be exceedingly honest. So yes, it was childish, in a way.

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            Children don’t typically express honesty with ‘fuckstick’. ‘Childish’ here is used to refer to the absence of capacity or ability to engage in constructive discussion. But feel free to keep painting ‘fuckstick’ in any shade you like. I personally prefer ‘Yo mama’ jokes when I lack the ability to win a particular argument.

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      4 hours ago

      Sure, but calling people fuckstick isn’t used on a large scale to shut down conversation, there is a qualitative difference here.

      Edit: I belatedly see your point that it could have been directly in response to that, in which case the pattern recognition was misfiring and I apologise.

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        4 hours ago

        Sure, but calling people fuckstick isn’t used on a large scale to shut down conversation, there is a qualitative difference here.

        Maybe if ‘fuckstick’ was followed by a coherent argument. But instead of providing one, OP just continues to throw insults about their reasonable perspective somehow being ‘smug’ in some way. I’d call that childish too.