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Ehh, most instances would reasonably call that out as trolling. PPB is the opposite of a good faith argument.
why would we give a good faith argument if we see someone saying something stupid? If I see someone saying something aggressively stupid, or they're being transphobic, racist, or whatever, why would I engage them as a serious person? At that point I just want to have a laugh because I don't respect them and have no faith they'll ever change unless subject to public embarrassment.
if someone approaches in good faith I'll talk with them but at a certain point you gotta realize some people enjoy being clueless and they deserve mockery until such point they decide they'd rather be more well-informed
There are people who say things like "I don't know what this is and would like to talk about it." That's not being stupid and shouldn't be mocked. That's good faith. Then there are people who go "I don't know what this is, but I'll act like an expert anyway and refuse to be corrected." That's aggressively stupid and doesn't deserve a respectful argument.
We'll give the libs a "good faith argument" when we get one.
That usually does not happen though.
See this right here is why everyone hates you
If everyone hates us, why have we gotten so many people loving us since the federation?
Because we don't meet bad faith arguments with good faith
You might want to look up the tolerance paradox
Because you see arguments where there are none and then shit all over the walls.
Because we know how to read subtext and are able to call it out
deliberately so. You've gotta deserve it tbf
90% of the time when I attempt good faith argument with liberals, they almost immediately begin deflecting and pretending to be incompetent.
I still attempt it, but it's easy to see why it's probably better to just make fun of those people. Obviously honesty, knowledge, and good faith engagement means nothing to them.