How to argue like a Right Winger

[Taverner]

- When starting your argument, take one thing the left winger says (hereafter referred to "LW") and make a nonsensical statement out of it, hoping to derail the argument.

ex: You know American slavery wasn't really true slavery. It was indentured servitude.

- If you have a statistic, never say where it came from. If pressed for a source, scoff and say "hardly, that's common knowlege. I'm surprised YOU don't know that already."

- Throw nonsensical mutterings at the end of every point, hoping to go on a wild goose chase. Something like "Obama isn't even an American." or "Carter was really a KGB agent." Tangents are your friends.

- If LW accuses the US of any wrongdoing, immediately turn this back on them with "Well I love my country. I thought you did."

- China is good Communism, Cuba is bad Communism

- The US is THE BEST Capitalism, Venezuela's is the most Flawed capitalism

- Christians are persecuted, remember that

- Israel can do no wrong

- The Palestinian Authority can do no right



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Anyone have any others?

[mwb970]

1. If the LW criticizes a right-wing politician, particularly with extreme scorn...

...immediately announce that the libtards are TERRIFIED of him/her!

[Gwendolyn]

2. Preface every tirade with "you stupid rethugs never..."

[Bluzmann57]

3. You forgot one thing

You have to YELL once the argument has been shot down. Just shout your opponent down. Whenever I "debate" any of these fools, er, people, I know I have them when they try to shout me down.

[murielm99]

7. And the name-calling!

There have been quite a few times that I have been called an asshole or a bitch when I have shot down their arguments by speaking quite rationally.

[damntexdem]

4. First, get a lobotomy.

Then drug yourself to the gills.

[piratefish08]

5. 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911 911

and in conclusion,

911

[murielm99]

6. Some of them like to say that "those black churches"

have Democratic candidates in to speak ALL THE TIME.

They endorse Democrats, in violation of church and state separation.

Umm....what do those mostly white megachurches do?

[zbdent]

8. Declare the New York Times totally unreliable and 100 percent inaccurate, but

some web site with 3 hits (and two of the hits were correcting the inaccuracies) since its inception in 2002 is a credible source ...

[Prometheus Bound]

9. Your most popular reply is: "That's bullshit!"

No explanation necessary.

[depakid]

10. Don't forget the non-verbals

Raise voice.

Interrupt.

Flap arms.

Flush face.

[KamaAina]

11. "Why do you people hate America so much?"

:shrug:

[Suji to Seoul]

12. When arguing social class and status, bring up class warfare and the argument

that money and political donations are "free of speech." My RW friends love to say that their money is their speech and CFR laws inhibit their freedoms.

Also, don't forget the "why punish the successful and inhibit initiative" argument when talking about progressive taxation.