NationStates Jolt Archive

Alright, know how you look at some n00bs post and it says something like: "Kerry is gay and he'll make a terrible president"?

Harness it to your advantage

In an arguement against someone, BE with that someone! For example:

Poster 1: Yanks are naturally ignorant thanks to the media.
Poster 2 (You!): :lol: :lol: :lol: Yeah! Yanks are all fatasses that watch TV all day and are all stuipd. Kill em all!

(It was terrible typing that)

Anyways, you've just discredited the opinion your secretly bashing. Now people are going to look at your post and wonder why the hell would they want to follow your opinion? But it's not YOUR opinion...is it? :wink:


Hopefully, this would not break barriers between n00bs, newbies, regulars, and mods. BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW THERE SHOULD BE A GIANT BERLIN WALL SEPERATING THEM BECUZ TEY CAN NVR LIVE WIF EACH UDDER!

Okay okay...comments? I spent a full five minutes thinking this up last night as I suffered the night's insomnia

Two comments.

The first being that this is not that new, I have seen news interviews and the like where controversial endorsements have been maneuvred into proceedings in order to discredit one of the parties. Most memorably, that time when a BNP guy said, when asked, how well he got along with a New Labour politician. Which totally discredited the politician.

The second is that I would not recommend writing that someone or some group should be killed, because then I will give you no end of beef. That is not a reasonable debating tactic. :wink:

Two comments.

The first being that this is not that new, I have seen news interviews and the like where controversial endorsements have been maneuvred into proceedings in order to discredit one of the parties. Most memorably, that time when a BNP guy said, when asked, how well he got along with a New Labour politician. Which totally discredited the politician.

The second is that I would not recommend writing that someone or some group should be killed, because then I will give you no end of beef. That is not a reasonable debating tactic. :wink:

It's an example. I would NEVER EVER EVER want us Americans to die...

i fully agree with your point, in fact its quite brilliant, i go along with everything you said. i can find no flaw in your argument. you must be very very smart

but i dont see that john kerry can be gay, isnt he married for the second time and has kids of his own?

I fully agree with Colodia. Also in a argument you should never swear or spam because then you will look like a moron. Also reaserch your topic and make sure you have strong evidence before you state your opinon or you will look like a overopinunated airhead.

You'd have to have a pretty bad reputation in the first place for this to work. For some of us, we wouldn't want to develop the kind of rep. that this would create, either.

aww come on!
he's right, why give some "hitler was just misunderstood" poster the respect of an honest debate? he is either a troll or an utter idiot. sarcasm works much better and is WAY more amusing.
if every reply agreed with the wacko originator, sooner or later even the dullest reader would get the point.
save honest, serious, well reasoned posts for those who are worthy of your efforts

You'd have to have a pretty bad reputation in the first place for this to work. For some of us, we wouldn't want to develop the kind of rep. that this would create, either.

Basically, nearly everyone here has a bad reputation with someone.

Congratulations Colodia:
You just invented sarcasm