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Just because you read slowly doesn’t mean I do.
Another personal attack because you can’t make a rational argument.
You told me I couldn’t read 127 comment in the nearly seven minutes between comments.
I did and had time to respond to you but you don’t believe me because you must read slower.
No I didn’t. I said that your claim was an obvious lie. You’re welcome to prove otherwise with evidence, but, given the body of your behavior here during this discussion, I’m certain you would lie in order to “win” or “score points” in this argument, regardless of how silly or pointless the lie. your entire comment history here represents a dishonest representation of yourself when convenient.
There’s that zero-sum worldview again, where the only way you could do better is if someone else does worse. That’s the zero-sum bias
Do you often invent fantasies about strangers online when you’ve gambled foolishly on an argument you can’t win? Seems like a coping mechanism with very little payoff and a lot of toxicity.
How am I supposed to provide the evidence you’re looking for?
That’s your problem, not mine. Unlike you, I have no problem backing up my claims… and very well know better than to tell ridiculous lies.
You continue to refuse to back up your claims.
You’re acting like the anti-abortion activists right now, being completely unable to hear the other side of the conversation.
I’m acting like the pro-choice people putting out well thought out arguments backed up by facts and logic and a heathy dose of freedom and personal responsibility.
There’s that amnesia again! I’ve provided evidence repeatedly. All you can do is sealion.
More personal attacks because you have no rational response.
Except when I read and responded to every single thing you said. Just because I used evidence to prove you wrong over and over and over again - and you ignored it every time - doesn’t mean I didn’t listen to you— it proves that I did.
Another coping mechanism fantasy you”ve invented; this didn’t happen. But, if your “beliefs” still hold that this happened, please link to the facts and evidence and so-called “logic”. This should be interesting considering that you don’t even understand how health insurance works, what it’s for, or the definition of the word “gambling”.
As I’ve said several times before: you’re free to your “beliefs”, but the facts and evidence contradict them.
My religion says gambling is a sin.
Insurance of any sort is a gambling as Ned from The Simpsons proves in his quote from the 8th episode of the 8th season of The Simpsons.
Now, you’re free to disagree but you haven’t been able to disprove either of those facts that together form an air-tight case for what I’m saying.
Irrelevant to the discussion and a straw man
Fictional characters in a cartoon are not a source of reliable, verifiable facts, especially regarding healthcare and/or economic advice. And, wow, if you’re telling me that you base your financial and healthcare decisions (not to mention your religious convictions) based on a line from The Simpsons, then don’t simultaneously claim that you’re making a rational argument based on logic and facts. “Ned from The Simpsons said it” is a claim so ridiculous it really proves how desperate you are to hold onto your “beliefs” in the face of facts, evidence, and actual logic.
It’s your responsibility to prove your claims, not for me to disprove them, and you haven’t done that at all. Oh, and some throwaway joke from a fictional cartoon - on its own - isn’t proof of anything other than that your “beliefs” have a fictional (and very silly) basis.
Nice self-own.
Why are you calling my religion irrelevant and a straw man?
Because we are discussing health insurance and the definition of gambling. You keep trying to change the subject to various other subjects, such as:
and including religion, which is a straw man
That amnesia is really hitting you hard!
In the last 140 comments we’ve wandered through many topics, including what colour socks you are wearing.
It’s no longer a straw man.
No, you keep trying to change the subject, and I keep calling it out while staying on the subject of health insurance and the meaning of the word “gambling.” Again, blaming me for your words and actions.
You’re free to your “beliefs”, but the facts and evidence contradict you.
Besides I was talking about walking on the side of a street but never crossing it.
You were using straw man because you had no rational response to a discussion about health insurance.
This is the comment you characterized as ‘crossing the street.’
Can we trust anything else you say if you confuse simple comments like this?
I don’t care if you trust me. I never have. Others will trust the evidence and facts that they have seen so far.
But I will continue to point out when you post misinformation because it’s the right thing to do.
But it’s lacking evidence and facts, besides my very convincing arguments.
Just because you ignore the facts and evidence does not mean that they aren’t there. Everyone else but you can see them, apparently. And I really don’t care whether you believe me or not. I only care that others don’t believe you.
And only you are convinced by your arguments. You, and a fictional cartoon named Ned.
Do you think people are going to read 151 comments and think anything besides you are a little obsessive about this topic?
My parents didn’t raise me, they did drugs and drank until they passed out and woke up and did it all over again.
Ned from The Simpsons raised me in half hour increments that have shaped my entire life and given me a life long lust for the lord’s love and a respect for my fellow man and their opinion that apparently you do not.
And, again, you make a personal attack because you have no rational response.
Who do you think is upvoting them?
Wow, that’s even more sad than the story you just told me.
Also, irrelevant.
I think it’s cute you thought someone was waiting with bated breath for each of your witty responses but wasn’t downvoting idiotic me for some reason.
There you go again with your fantasy scenarios again… or was that just projection… again?
Someone just upvoted you!
Ok, let’s wrap this up.
Overall, I rate this a 7/10 troll. 5 base points, plus 1 for sticking with it and another bonus point for that shit about Ned Flanders. That made me laugh so hard, I almost broke character and called you out, but I wanted to see how far you’d take it.
Thanks for the practice. I haven’t had a good one of these since my Reddit days.
Time for bed. See you around, bud