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Larry Correia’s Internet Arguing Checklist

INTERNET ARGUING CHECKLIST

See ‹http://monsterhunternation.com/2013/09/20/the-internet-arguing-checklist/›.

✨🌟<b>Achievement(s) Unlocked:</b>🌟✨
☑ 1. Skim until Offended
☑ 2. Disqualify that Opinion (Subcategories: “”)
☑ 3. Attack, Attack, Attack
☑ 4. Disregard Inconvenient facts (Subcategories: “”)
☑ 5. Make S——t Up
☑ 6. Resort to Moral Equivalency
☑ 7. Concern Trolling
☑ 8. When all else fails, Racism!
☑ Bonus: Justify the Moon Ferrets!

❇️<b>Efficiency bonus!</b>❇️

(<i>Just ‹x› more for a complete checklist!</i>)

Ballot box: ☐ ☑ ☒
w/ U+FE0E: ☐︎ ☑︎ ☒︎ (suppressed image)
w/ U+FE0F: ☐️ ☑️ ☒️ (forced image)

Sub-species of #2 (AKA “Dismiss!”): • Privilege • “You sound angry.” • “How rude.” • “You know too much/too little.” • “You sure did write a lot.”

#3 = ad hominem.

#4 = “The Drudge Report? That’s not a real newspaper!”, “That’s anecdote, not evidence!”, or “Link or it didn’t happen!”

#6 = “Well, Republicans did it too!” (So? Was it okay then?)

#7 = Boycott threats, also “I read your article, and it like totally would have swayed me to your side, BUT the way you called liberal ideas liberal and talked about people who are liberals by using the word liberal just ruined the whole thing. You’d be more effective if you used no labels.”

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