#now obv you have to be careful not to let that progress to 'uhm i have x friends and they agree with me soo:// i dont have to listen to you'

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obviously you should try to make lots of queer friends irl because its good for you and offers lots of perspective, but you already know about those so i'm here to offer you a secret secondary benefit: it becomes ten times funnier when someone says "obviously you don't have any (x) friends or know anyone influenced by this thing otherwise youd agree with me" when you can immediately mentally list off several different (x) people youve talked about it with in detail already

#now obv you have to be careful not to let that progress to 'uhm i have x friends and they agree with me soo:// i dont have to listen to you' #but like yeah itll be way funnier when someone tries to say 'the only way you could disagree with me was if you knew #nothing about this and no one effected by it' when you in fact do know things about it and people involved and magically still do disagree #and its a v good litmus test for how the other person is approaching the convo too #like ive said this before but imo arguments that boil down to 'ill always be right and youll always be wrong no matter what you say' are bad #and are generally only made when someone has run out of Actual Defenses #and similarly 'if you knew what i knew you would agree' when you /do/ know what they know just really pulls back the veil #and shows they just Cant Comprehend Someone Disagreeing For Good Reasons At All Because They're Already Right #(read: ''right'') #origibberish