"Arguing" by listing a long list of fallacies that they don't really even understand.

Fallacy fallacy!

Unfaltering loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party

This one has been easy for me lately: They spell 'lose' as 'loose'.

Username with a year that tracks as a kid.

slang mostly, I mod a strictly 18+ space and recently someone used the word "skeet", and would you believe it, they were a minor

A lack of understanding interpersonal interactions.

And it’s more of a feeling than it is any single behavior. You just… know it when you see it. They simplify too much, think values/morals/rules are shared, obvious, and uniform, and that getting along with others happens solely on their terms. They kind of act like everyone but them is an NPC - not realizing to everyone but them, they’re the NPC.

Enthusiasm.

Writing in short form where a lengthier reply would work better and when confronted with such a reply some form of "not reading all that" or other thought terminating clichés.

I've found that as arbitrary as it is - the ability to read a lot of information works pretty well as a mark of mental maturity. Also links to Twitter or Tiktok as discussion points. No one over the age of 19 browses TikTok lol.

The thing with a lot of the methods mentioned is that I've seen both teens that are more mature than me, and people in their thirties that should probably have their internet privileges revoked.

They don't remember what life was like before Google.

Crypto bros who follow ultra distorted stoicism (the only good philosophy is the ones made when slavery was normalised) that believe everyone else is unaware of what very basic knowledge they world they just learned that day.

Why does he look so much like Pete Davidson

"skibidi" "rizz" "sus"

Fr fr bussin no cap the rizzler is mewing

For me personally the first tell is when they are morally loading every statement in an argument and are unable to engage with a topic directly. Adults should be able to discuss or debate certain topics on the value of the arguments alone without feeling pressured to include a declarative virtue signal in every clause.

They are a lemmy.world user

My general metric:

Hahaha = gen x

Lol = older millenial

Lmao = younger millenial

💀 = Gen z

I fucked their mom

Their usernames are the random ones proposed by the platform, such as Lazy_Platform_34.

💀

Extensive use of emojis and abbreviations is a good indicator.