{"id":26723,"date":"2014-07-08T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26723"},"modified":"2014-07-07T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:28:17","slug":"qotd-why-you-are-wrong-an-all-purpose-internet-argument-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/08\/qotd-why-you-are-wrong-an-all-purpose-internet-argument-template\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Why you are wrong&#8221; &#8211; an all-purpose internet argument template"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I disagree with you. I understand where you\u2019re coming from, but I believe you\u2019re mistaken, and I\u2019ll explain why you are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the data backs up my point. I have facts out the waz. Your data are flawed, old, biased or incomplete. The people who collected your data are in prison for fraud or took funding from an evil billionaire who lives in a castle on a mountain where there is always lightning. My facts are bulletproof. They were gathered by humble grass roots researchers who love America and hate cancer. You can be forgiven for not having the same information that I do. People on \u201cyour side\u201d don\u2019t like to discuss data that annihilate their arguments. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>More important than the data, though, is that my argument is just. I can see why you made the argument that you did, but you\u2019re forgetting a whole host of injustices, tragedies and \u201cRaiders of the Lost Ark\u201d style flying specters that would be loosed upon millions of people if you had your way. What I\u2019m saying is that the moral arc of the universe bends towards my argument.<\/p>\n<p>MLK.<\/p>\n<p>Respect.<\/p>\n<p>History has proved me correct on this point time and time again. From the Bible to the Renaissance to the Depression and WWII, my point was cemented repeatedly by real events and real people who suffered under the regimes of dogmatic fools like you. There are several authors who have made the very point I am making more eloquently than I have, and you can buy their books and read them in your spare time, which I suggest you do, because right now you\u2019re uneducated and just talking out your butt.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Donatelli, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehumorcolumnist.com\/wrong\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Why You Are Wrong&#8221;, <em>The Humor Columnist<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I disagree with you. I understand where you\u2019re coming from, but I believe you\u2019re mistaken, and I\u2019ll explain why you are wrong. First of all, the data backs up my point. I have facts out the waz. Your data are flawed, old, biased or incomplete. The people who collected your data are in prison for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[58,463],"class_list":["post-26723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-internet","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6X1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26724,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}