I often have to remind myself to stop trying to reason with loud, angry, stubborn fools.
There is no changing their minds - at least not durably. No matter how airtight, even plainly obvious the argument, it’s just a short time until they’ve tuned in to Faux News, Rush Limbaugh, or a clone on hate radio, or one of the many conspiracy mongers who populate the ‘dark web’, and they will re-self-radicalize.
More importantly though is the incredibly small prize for winning. The best I could hope for is to have this loud angry, stubborn fool, now angrily spouting my point of view - hardly a prize worth a lot of effort.
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