Let me give you all a little explainer on what is currently one of the meta avenues for internet discussion and argument. This is the practice of "winning" arguments by being stupid. I am not throwing around "stupid" as the type of insult that comes on sarcastic coffee cups, but as the most succinct way to describe a certain type of disingenuous behavior that is used as a tactic or strategy on the internet. The basic idea is to pretend to not understand basic concepts and facts, forcing someone else to go to the effort of explaining basic ideas, and therefore keeping the argument at the most crude and basic idea possible. If the stupid argument is ever refuted, by simple logical inference or appeal to obvious facts, the game of whack-a-mole will continue with the presentation of an even more stupid argument.
The principle is pretty easy to explain, So let me use a prime example. This is the tweet of a congresswoman from Georgia, sent in December 2021, during the second winter of
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