Fighting interweb ignorance

Whats everybody doing during the day, when there’s nothing to be done except lie about? Why, on Facebook, of course. Even I’ve given it a try. This weekend, a wee political blurb caught my attention – some generic political question about wiretapping or some such thing. I click around, take a position (something that would piss David off, can’t remember what), and glance down at the “discussion board.” You can probably imagine what happens when you let a large group of people go off on their own individual soapboxes… (“Liberals are gay” “Republicans are stupid!”)

I couldn’t help myself.

I entered into a discussion (again, not sure what about) and at some point made the point that global warming was a real occurence. Lo and behold, some genius from Boston takes up the Hudson Institute flag…

“Who told you global warming was real? Your daddy?” was his cunning opening statement. I was already gripped in his sweet, syrupy words.

He then proceeded to reference alot of acronyms and computer science terms in what was a poor attempt to confuse me; the argument turned out to be against the computer prediction software scientists are using to confirm our findings.  Clearly outside my realm of comfort.

I said, “Good sir, this may be, and it is something I intend to look into further. However, all current research is supporting global warming and is saying we need to act to stop this downward fall.”

I was obviously dealing with someone of superior intelligence, as the next reply was a windfall of “morons” and “idiots.”

Well, I have a rather short temper, especially ignorant right wingers (ignorant left wingers are at least socially acceptable). So I decided I’d play the Rush Limbaugh/Bill O’Reilly/Ann Coulter game!

the conversation that followed:

“Shut up. Stop talking.”

-”Yeah, that was mature…”

“Don’t even respond to this. Just stop talking. Go ride a bike. Or take a lap. Just shut up.”

-”You liberals are all the same!”

“…shut up!”

And then he did! That means… I WIN!! That’s the name of the game, right? Do whatever it takes, just so it looks like you won and you’re right and you’re better than everyone else. See how these people operate? They actually only appreciate prepubescent mudslinging as a form of argument! It’s amazing how amazing I am at debunking the purported amazing qualities of stupid people.

At the end of the day, these people just aren’t worth the time. Point them to some quality sources and leave it be. They won’t listen to you anyways, so you might as well spend it watching some quality mainstream programming to learn some real information.

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…you can laugh now.