Does your side usually win in forum threads?

[monkspider]

I can say that my personal record in debates is without blemish.

As a whole, we Commies generally win in everything though.

[David Floyd]

I certainly can't remember losing an argument against certain forum members

It's tough for me to say that Libertarians always win forum debates because we base our beliefs on certain things completely outside of mainstream thought, so often times we and our opponents can't even agree on how to approach a subject and it just ends up with both sides banging their heads against a wall.

[Urban Ranger]

Win? How is it measured?

[David Floyd]

I think a better measure of victory is the PWNED factor. Anyone can contest a "win", no one can contest a good PWNING.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

by world championships

2004 RED SOX WORLD CHAMPIONS

WE WIN WE WIN WE WIN, A TRUE VICTORY FOR ALL PATRIOT AMERICANS.

[joncha]

YOUR_WINNER!!1

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Win? How is it measured?

You'll know if it ever happens.

[Berzerker]

Libertarians are know for standing up when typing their arguments, which allows them to pull facts out of their ass.

Do you take dumps standing up?

It's tough for me to say that Libertarians always win forum debates because we base our beliefs on certain things completely outside of mainstream thought, so often times we and our opponents can't even agree on how to approach a subject and it just ends up with both sides banging their heads against a wall.

It doesn't help when lefties insist on using definitions taken from Das Kapital instead of Webster

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Tingkai
You'll know if it ever happens.

"Know" is hardly an objective measurement.

[BeBMan]

I always win in forum threads.

Here's how I do it: if I'm proven wrong, I learn something - so I win. If I'm right I win anyway. Easy, isn't it?

[Agathon]

It doesn't help when lefties insist on using definitions taken from Das Kapital instead of Webster

Each is equally useless in any real debate (not that there's many of those on Apolyton - the typical Apolyton debate consists of linking articles which are supposed to prove one side or the other - the fact that the internet contains a practically infinite number of articles on either side of almost any subject renders this process meaningless).

Typical Poly debate:

A: X is so.

B: No it isn't.

A: Yes it is, check out this link.

B: The author of that link is sponsored by/partisan for Republicans/Democrats/Ferret Rapers so it doesn't count.

A: So what, it is still true.

B: You can't trust a Republican/Democrat/Ferret Raper stooge.

A: Well prove it wrong then.

B: See this link.

A: That guy is sponsored by/partisan for Republicans/Democrats/ Ferret Rapers....

etc. etc.


If only more debates were conceptual. The only problem with that is that if you start debating that way, people try to use empirical claims to refute it.

I'm sure the Libertarians believe they win every debate, but believing doesn't make it so.

[BeBMan]

I don't think that's a typical Poly debate - do you have a link

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by David Floyd
It's tough for me to say that Libertarians always win forum debates because we base our beliefs on certain things completely outside of mainstream thought, so often times we and our opponents can't even agree on how to approach a subject and it just ends up with both sides banging their heads against a wall.

This is exactly how I feel the few times I argue with a Lib

[Agathon]

It's tough for me to say that Libertarians always win forum debates because we base our beliefs on certain things completely outside of mainstream thought, so often times we and our opponents can't even agree on how to approach a subject and it just ends up with both sides banging their heads against a wall.

That's because Libertarians are immoral, so you can't appeal to their better nature.

[MikeH]

Who cares about winning? I'm always right which is all that matters.