I had an interesting “conversation” with some people on Twitter the last few days. Their contribution was a constant string of insults such as:
@jgrubb62190 @EndNRA @AWorldOutOfMind Because you show your inadequacies so proudly. Someday you might find a woman.
— Darth (@DarthNihilus1) December 9, 2014
@JoeHuffman @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 @AWorldOutOfMind PS, at no time did I refer to myself as anti-gun, presumptuous dick-bag.
— Darth (@DarthNihilus1) December 29, 2014
@DarthNihilus1 @JoeHuffman @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 The gun nuts are a sad, sorry lot with zero human empathy. Heartless, dense.
— Saint Brian (@AWorldOutOfMind) December 30, 2014
@JoeHuffman @AWorldOutOfMind @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 Put your glasses on, old timer..
— Darth (@DarthNihilus1) December 30, 2014
@JoeHuffman @AWorldOutOfMind @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 More blog links, this guy is fucking dense!!
— Darth (@DarthNihilus1) December 30, 2014
@AWorldOutOfMind @JoeHuffman @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 I enjoy destroying them slowly.
— Darth (@DarthNihilus1) December 30, 2014
@DarthNihilus1 @JoeHuffman @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 And did you? I mean, you should have, but you can’t destroy Teflon Idiocy.
— Saint Brian (@AWorldOutOfMind) December 30, 2014
@AWorldOutOfMind @JoeHuffman @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 I destroy him publicly, so others can see him with his pants down.
— Darth (@DarthNihilus1) December 30, 2014
@DarthNihilus1 @JoeHuffman @CharleyVCU1988 @EndNRA @jgrubb62190 I can’t interact with them that much anymore. I get actual nausea.
— Saint Brian (@AWorldOutOfMind) December 30, 2014
You don’t win the gun rights debate by getting your peer group to agree with your insults. You win by getting public opinion on your side and winning court cases.
Yet the psychology is interesting. Insults versus logical arguments? Patting themselves on the back thinking they have won? Nausea?
Hmmm… this is all consistent with the neurological and psychology model proposed by Anonymous Conservative.
Re: Nausea
I’ve been curious about this pattern for a while of leftists claiming some sort of physical sickness or nausea when hearing or reading opinions that they disagree with. I’ve seen it most commonly among extreme feminists, and I’ve spotted it among anti-gunners here and there too. I wonder if it’s a variation on the violence of the left? Or the total inability to argue their points in a logical way, and so they fall back to claiming that words on a page make them sick.
When all facts, logic, laws, and public opinion are going against you, you can always claim you’re going to throw up! That’s sure to convince ’em!
Anonymous Conservative claims the feeling of illness is real. He says it’s because of an Amygdala hijack and not really a false claim.
I was reading along some as you were having that “discussion”. Their insults were interesting only for the lack of originality. There’s a reason I don’t engage that side on twitter, I would have started returning insult for insult. I don’t see that as helpful so I stay silent. Most of the time anyway.
It was interesting to me only because of the childish nature of their attacks and claimed victory. It was sort of like studying children or maybe advanced primates.
More like lemurs actually ..
It’s funny, as soon as I read “nausea” I thought of AC and amygdala hijack as well.