Playing Devil’s Advocate. has been around way before the internet.
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theres also Bots/ai arguing against other bots to sow dissent.
This is one of those stupid articles that are like “water is wet says a new study” and far more people than it should be say “holy fuck it’s wet when I wash things. It must mean I wash things with water. Omgomgomgomg!!”
No shit users are trolls on reddit.
insert 2 spidermen pointing at each other
It’s called being contrarian, and it’s not just Reddit users. I have several family members like this.
I’d also argue it’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you’re talking shit be sure you’re able to back it up. I am naturally contrarian but in many cases it’s less about what I feel and more about taking the side of the voice that is missing.
Wow this guy really loves to disagree
No he doesn’t!
HAVE YOU EVEN READ OP?
Thanks AI… Using tremendous amounts of energy and technology to tell us something that anyone paying attention would have already known
no they dont
That’s not an argument, that’s a contradiction!
This is abuse, arguments are down the hall.
No it’s not!
BUT
source?
no… no!!! that’s impossible!!!
Thats not true
No it’s not!
I disagree
Disagreement is a way to promote dialog.
It’s also a way to manufacture dissent and foster division.
No it isnt
Sources?
/s
Wrong.
Bizarre to have a headline claiming five “types” were identified, but then only describe the behavior of a single type. What are the other four?
There’s way more than five. (bugger - the images seem to be gone from that old site)
I disagree.
Then we agree to disagree
It’s not something you can agree or not, it’s a fact!
those are the people who no one irl talks to anymore because they impulsively take the opposing stance, regardless of how stupid that stance may be, any time anyone says anything
I play devil’s advocate in most friend-space conversations, it’s just who I am, I don’t do it disrespectfully (I hope) but it’s just the first thing my brain goes to.
sometimes it’s good to examine things from all angles; i’m mostly talking about people who will start arguing if you say “nice weather today”-- shit gets old quick
Yup and guess what they are way more vocal online since they can still have an audience there and this is one of the reasons social media sites are so skewed from representing generalizable opinions. It’s a contrarian incubator.
I had a colleague like that, he was an electric engineer who was convinced that the Earth is flat and that vaccines are bad.
I know that guy he told me he knows of a colleague who was convinced that the earth is spherical and vaccines are great.
No they are not
I’m in this comment, and I don’t like it
MAGA??
In breaking news; The sky is blue.
More at 4.
I have a reddit coworker, he just disagrees and follows up with “fucking retard” while being blatantly wrong…i hope they fire the guy soon.
Unmanageable human being, impossible to learn anything to keep him from killing himself (my job is technically life threatening, if you’re too stupid to listen)
He also mamaged to call in sick for 2 weeks in his first 4 weeks of employment, i was surprised when they kept him on after that.
